Lead QA Engineer

Details

• Develop and improve test strategy, test standards, test plans, test reports, and QA processes
• Organize and manage test design and implementation tasks on a project for yourself and the whole QA team (8-10 people)
• Conduct and report on the analysis of test results and coverage factors.
• Develop and execute tests for end-to-end scenarios, reported customer-facing issues, and other externally initiated sources.
• Participate in requirements discussions and identify requirements that may be missing, wrong, or lacking clarity.
• Ensure proper communication occurs with the project teams on the test status, issues and deployment risk.
• Work with development and project management to troubleshoot issues, manage change and mitigate risk.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or an IT related discipline plus 5 years related experience, in lieu of a master’s degree.
• 8+ years of experience in functional, non-functional, regression and acceptance testing.
• Strong knowledge in QA methodologies and standards, preferably confirmed by relevant certifications.
• Experience in working with software specifications and documentation.
• Thorough process knowledge on all phases of Agile and software releases.
• Excellent analytical, debugging, planning, organizational and communication skills.
• Proven experience leading QA teams and mentoring QA engineers
• Experience driving QA process improvements and promoting testing best practices.
• Understanding of DB and behavior-driven testing is required for this role; MongoDB and Databricks testing experience is strongly preferred.
• Knowledge of Agile and JIRA.
• Strong collaboration, reporting and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across development, product, and production support teams.
• Experience with web application testing.
• Experience in breaking the system and thinking out of the box while doing functional testing.
• Detail-oriented and comfortable working with developers, product owners and other project stakeholders.
• Should have worked in an offshore model.
• Playwright and Selenium experience
• Healthcare application testing experience is a plus.
• Experience testing AI-powered features and applications.
• Experience using AI-assisted testing tools to improve test design, automation, and execution