Quality Engineering Practice Lead

Company: Ascendum Solutions
Location: Cincinnati
Posted on: February 26, 2021

Job Description:

Ascendum - Quality Engineering Practice Lead Blue Ash, OH 45242 The Quality Engineering Practice Lead is accountable for ensuring the end-to-end quality of our applications ensuring that the appropriate level of testing has been completed before releasing to our customers. This person will be responsible for setting the strategy for end-to-end QA, and ensuring this strategy is consistently executed, by QA teams across the organization.

• Foster a culture of innovation and accountability.
• Hire, manage, and develop a growing team of quality automation and testing resources.
• Plan and allocate resources to effectively staff and accomplish the work to meet future productivity and quality goal.
• Responsible for definition, planning and execution of testing efforts.
• Assist in the selection of the appropriate software testing resources, processes and tools to complete project task.
• Lead the strategic test planning process to include, tools/automation, documentation, and process implementation to meet deadlines and drive efficiency; conduct periodic status checkpoints with customers and team to assess software and service quality progress against functional requirements.
• Measure and analyze existing methods identifying opportunities for continuous improvement including modernization and transformation approaches to test automation.
• Lead team and ensure that software meets or exceeds specified standards and end-user requirements; work closely with other key stakeholders within the development and business teams regarding roadmap and release schedule.
• Lead the Software Quality Assurance/Engineering practice and participate as a member of the Software Development management team by contributing to the attainment of a shared vision and mission, setting objectives, measuring ongoing progress towards achieving objectives and initiating corrective action.
• Possess strong written and oral communication skills, along with the ability to interact professionally with a diverse range of team members.
• Ability to work in the scrum or agile development environment supporting a software product.
• Communicate with co-workers, management, clients and others in a courteous and professional manner, while being a thought leader, influencer and relationship builder to get results. Position/Project Specific Requirements:
  • 4+ years of Quality Assurance/Engineering management experience
  • 3+ years of experience writing Selenium tests in Java
  • 2+ years of experience with test runners (Junit, TestNG, Mocha, Jasmine)
  • 2+ years of experience with CI tools (Jenkins, TeamCity, GitLab)
  • 1+ years of experience with Selenium Grid
  • 1+ years of experience testing web services (manual or automation)
  • 1+ years of working in an Agile/Scrum methodology
  • 1+ years of using Jira for defect tracking Preferred Qualifications:
    • Strong communication and collaboration skills
    • Experience leading the automation of regression test suites
    • QA Lead experience on most recent project
    • Selenium being utilized in the current/most recent role
    • Agile be utilized in the current/most recent project
    • Experience in the SAFe Agile approach
    • Working knowledge of Selenium WDIO
    • Understanding or experience validating XML responses from web services

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