Our direct client in New York has a QA Lead position.
Responsibilities include:
1 Perform end-to-end test process.
2 Work closely with project managers and project team to provide testing timelines;
3 Participate in the early phases of projects to ensure that inputs into testing process can be translated into a test plan and test cases;
4 Design test plans for projects and work with project teams to obtain approval;
5 Work closely with project teams to understand solution requirements and generate test scripts and perform test analysis;
6 Execute all functional and performance tests according to test plans and scripts, document results, and quickly identify and troubleshoot issues;
7 Use automated tools to perform performance and functional testing as needed;
8 Raise potential issues to the appropriate parties and contribute to solutions;
9 Assist in maintenance of equipment and configuration in the QA lab and ensure that environments are available and properly configured for project needs;
10 Adhere to all processes and participate in any necessary standard development for the Quality Assurance Team;
11 Supervise the team members that are assigned to the same projects, motivate them and check for timely delivery of different milestones.
12 Keep track of the new requirements from the Project;
13 Analyze tests (performance/load/stress and functional) results in order to be able to forecast applications needs and limitations;
14 Arrange the Hardware and software requirement for the Test Setup;
15 Communicate with the Development teams, Project Managers and Business Analysts on matters of quality compliance and to provide testing timelines and understand solution requirements.
Deliverables:
1 Test plans
2 Defects Log
3 Test results documentation
Required skills:
1 QA Lead must have 8 years experience on a QA/Test team, 3 years of which must have been as a lead.
2 Strong understanding of network and security design and the implication of these on the performance test environments;
3 The ability to work with these teams and articulate requirements to facilitate properly configured performance testing environments;
4 The ability to communicate with the infrastructure teams to recommend alternative solutions for addressing application bottlenecks;
5 The ability to understand requirements and translate them into test cases;
6 Experience with manual and automated testing is required;
7 Experience with Mercury Interactive, Quick Test Pro, WinRunner, Load Runner, Test Director and Quality Center is necessary;
8 Understanding of a variety of programming languages, architectures, and standards (e.g., J2EE-Java, .net, n-tier architecture, service oriented architecture) is a plus;
Desired skills:
1 Experience working on government technology projects with the City of New York is preferable.
2 Experience with search technologies and search implementation is beneficial as well.
3 Service oriented architecture or data integration testing experience is a plus.
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