[REQ ID-9715]{P-R} QA Lead, Functional // Cincinnati Ohio // 6+ Months -- Locals Required

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Position Title   : QA Lead, Functional

Location          : Cincinnati Ohio

Duration           : 6 months +

 

Essential Job Functions:

QA Lead Responsibilities and Task Assignments:

1. Create QA Task List
2. Set up metrics and reporting structure for project
3. Develop or oversee the development of test activities estimates, resource plans, costs, benefits, and timelines for projects.
4. Complete risk and impact assessment for requests and ensure quality and a timely delivery of all projects. 
5. Identify training needs
6. Identify test environment needs
7. Define and Create a Defect Tracking Process / Procedure
8. Create Test Plan
9. Perform and/or Oversee Test Case Development
10. Manage the day-to-day activities of a group of testers to complete project and support related activities.  Delegate assignments to staff members as a part of this process.
11. Ensure Test Case reviews with stakeholders are being held as appropriate.
12. Verify Proper Configuration of Tools
13. Formally accept application for testing.
14. Coordinate Test Execution.
15. Conduct Defect Triage meetings as appropriate.
16. Update Project List Activities for Project Management
17. Develop, track, analyze, and communicate test-related metrics to project stakeholders.
18. Keep Management, Project Managers and stakeholders informed of current state of quality and test progress against pilot / production readiness criteria. 
19. Ensure completion of all deliverables within schedule, budget and quality constraints.
20. Formally certify application for pilot.
21. Monitor Pilot
22. Root Cause Analysis
23. Perform functional manual application testing, quality assurance. 
24. Assess quality and test process maturity level and assist in defining strategy to implement best practices.
25. Ensure that projects follow prescribed software development life cycle standards.
26. Provide leadership to quality engineers, with complete responsibility and accountability for delivery of project tasks assigned to the QA team.
27. Identify and lead implementation of software quality metrics that results in improvement initiatives.
28. Develop and maintain good relationships with project team.
29. Manage test services for support activity and works with release management to assure product release quality
30. Demonstrate continuous effort to improve operations, reduce support, decrease turnaround times, and streamline work processes.
31. Provide coaching, education, and career development for QA team.
32. Continuously work to increase technical knowledge through self-study and classroom training.
33. Identify test automation opportunities to improve efficiency and effectiveness of test services. Define test automation strategy and framework.
34. Drive selection of testing tools to support test efficiency and effectiveness objectives.  Insure that test tools are consistently used across enterprise.

 

Requirements:

Bachelor’s degree in IS or related equivalent work experience in an Information Systems position and 3-5 years of experience in job duties.  Experience in discipline of functional testing.  Understanding of regression testing techniques.

 

Skills Description	Exp. (Yrs)
Agile / Scrum experience is required.  Must be capable of discussing Agile Scrum methodology and their experience in applying this methodology to their projects	3+
Experience in waterfall and Agile project management and development methodologies	3+
Test automation: defining scope for test automation, script design and development -          Selinium experience preferred.	2+
Java code development exposure at entry level is desired	1+
Understands focus of various testing types:  black / white box, unit, integration, system, user acceptance, etc.	5+
Project management knowledge:  tasks, activities, duration vs. effort, time reporting	3+
Effort / duration estimation:  estimating models, coverage (i.e., specialized testing, support, etc)	3+
Understands relationship of solution architecture to testing	3+
Understands relationship of Requirements to testing	3+
Ability to effectively and frequently interact with Business Analysts, Technical Leads, and Architects	3+
Able to analyze and specify test environment requirements	1+
Understands release management procedures	1+
Manages testing effort to typical project constraints:  budget, schedule, environment, etc.	3+
Identifies QA training needs	1+
Able to establish and drive requirements testability and traceability	5+
Articulates gaps found in requirements and escalates associated risks	3+
Conducts / facilitates / drives quality risk analyses	1+
Ability to estimate work based on quality risk	1+
Experience documenting detailed test plans	3+
Provides relevant QA feedback to software design	1+
Strong test case modeling / design experience	5+
Effective at verbally validating planned test scenarios with technical and business stakeholders	3+
Synchronizes test design activities with development design activities	3+
Ability to prioritize test case creation based on risk	3+
Ability to manage test case coverage based on risk	3+
Provide mentoring to other QA team on test artifacts:  concise, appropriate detail, standards-based, etc	1+
Able to identify critical test artifacts from repository for unique purposes (i.e., smoke test, regression, etc)	3+
Understands / applies metrics-based decision making for test phase entrance and exit	1+
Drives test execution:  prioritization, communication, pacing	3+
Understands / communicates relationship between test execution and software build deployments	2+
Coordinate / communicate software build deployments to test environment, including planning, prioritization, content, and results	2+
Able to prioritize testing by relative risk	3+
Able to establish regression testing target areas based on previous results and risk	3+
Able to track and articulate defect trend data	1+
Familiarity with commercial defect tracking tools	1+
Understanding of standard defect life-cycle models	1+
Ablility to articulate software quality metrics concepts, value, purpose, processes, etc	1+
Drive / facilitates defect triage and resolution activities	3+
Can routinely articulate test progress succinctly in terms of quality, progress, risks, schedule, budget, issues, actions, etc	3+
Drives quality risk identification with project manager	3+
Drives quality issues resolution	3+
Conducts root-cause analyses on discovered defects and articulates results	1+
Contribute to decision making around pilot and production readiness	1+
Articulate final test results reporting	1+
Conductes root-cause analyses on discovered defects and articulates results	1+
Establish test process improvements from defect analysis	1+

 

 

 

Warm Regards,

 

Bhageerath M

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