Lead QA Engineers own end-to-end program testing including driving quality automation initiatives and reports to senior stakeholders on designated projects. You will utilize your deep technical expertise and skillset by representing testing in overall project management by specifying and driving progress towards testing activities, milestones, and timelines. Lead QA Engineers identify Issues, risks and mitigation strategies related to testing. This role independently develops scalable and reliable automated tests and frameworks for testing software solutions in highly complex projects and/or product(s) by analyzing integration points, data flows, personas, authorization schemes and environments. Lead QA Engineers develop regression suites, automation scenarios, and move automation to an agile continuous testing model. Lead QA Engineers model a growth mindset by mentoring and guiding QA team members in growing their skillsets and performing functional testing, non-functional testing and other testing activities. This role communicates the role of Software Testing, the value it adds to the business and partners with all levels of leadership to educate and influence on specific Software Testing services.
About the Role:
You're a fit for the role of QA Lead Engineer if your background includes:
- Lead QA Engineers own end-to-end program testing including driving quality automation initiatives and reports to senior stakeholders on designated projects.
- You will utilize your deep technical expertise and skillset by representing testing in overall project management by specifying and driving progress towards testing activities, milestones, and timelines.
- Leads significant projects, programs and business initiatives, demonstrating creativity and ingenuity
- Determines work priorities based on general direction from managers
- Provides specialist advice to middle and senior management to resolve complex issues.
- Representing testing in overall project management by specifying and driving progress towards testing activities, milestones and timelines.
- Communicates difficult and complex concepts effectively by altering communication style to the audience
- Gathers analyses and presents complex or sensitive information for discussion with more senior levels of management
- Must have excellent verbal and written communication skills
About you:
You're a fit for the role of QA Lead Engineer if your background includes:
- 8+ years of work experience
- Lead team of technical QA automation members
- High proficiency in computer technology and programming languages
- Strong knowledge of Linux and Microsoft Windows
- Solid knowledge of and practical experience in Web UI Automated Testing
- Provides input for the planning, integration, casing, scripting, and execution of all testing required of a single software change or project.
- Development/Improvement of test automation framework using Selenium WebDriver/Selenium Grid/Java/Test NG/SQL/RestAssured/Jenkins.
- Contribute towards writing of automation scripts of manual test cases and tasks across all projects in multiple technologies.
- Implement and manage continuous automated testing integration using Jenkins.
- Executes test scripts/cases and communicates the results of testing.
- Innovate and create utilities that helps to drive test automation effectively.
- Leverages technical solutions on assigned projects.
- May lead project sub team.
- Stays current with industry trends and identifies technologies that will impact the business.
- Conducts root cause analysis and correlation of other system and/or problems of moderate complexity.
- Estimates effort required for own work
- Identifies risk, comes up with mitigation plans, and implements the same.
- Reports progress on problem resolution to management.
- Recommends improvements to the testing processes to create efficiencies.
- Provide training to other members as needed.
- In-depth understanding of Java8 or above, Selenium WebDriver, Selenium Grid, Jenkins, Maven, Report Portal, TestNG/Junit, AWS, MS Teams, BDD, Cucumber JVM, Kanban
- Understanding of the TAF structure, design patterns in automated testing
- Experience with WS API (REST) testing, HTTP/HTTPs protocols
- Experience in MS TFS as a source control and defect management system.
- Experience with Web API Automated testing.
- Experience with Apache Ant + Ivy
- Strong knowledge of software QA methodologies, tools and processes
- Hands-on experience with automated testing tools.
What's in it For You
You will join our inclusive culture of world-class talent, where we are committed to your personal and professional growth through:
- Hybrid Work Model: We've adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected
- Wellbeing: Comprehensive benefit plans; flexible and supportive benefits for work-life balance: flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days Off; work from another location for up to a total of 8 weeks in a year, 4 of those weeks can be out of the country and the remaining in the country, Headspace app subscription; retirement, savings, tuition reimbursement, and employee incentive programs; resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.
- Culture: Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for equality, diversity and inclusion, flexibility, work-life balance, and more.
- Learning & Development: LinkedIn Learning access; internal Talent Marketplace with opportunities to work on projects cross-company; Ten Thousand Coffees Thomson Reuters caf networking.
- Social Impact: Ten employee-driven Business Resource Groups; two paid volunteer days annually; Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) initiatives for local and global impact.
- Purpose Driven Work: We have a superpower that we've never talked about with as much pride as we should we are one of the only companies on the planet that helps its customers pursue justice, truth and transparency. Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.
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