Qa Lead Jobs

The Quality Assurance (QA) Lead will lead and guide a team of testers and work closely with project teams and stakeholders. They will also be responsible for building and executing testing programs for Dollar Tree/Family Dollar Merchandise and Back Office systems. The QA Lead will also perform resource capacity planning, prepare and review QA estimate, and coordinate all QA activities for their assigned systems.
Principal Duties and Responsibilities

• Govern QA processes and prepare and share status reports (daily, weekly and others as applicable) for project stakeholders.
• Lead a team of internal and external QA testers
• Coordinate all testing activities between QA Team/Development Teams/Business/vendor, for assigned projects.
• Prepare and review the test strategy documents as needed
• Conduct and drive defect triage calls
• Estimate QA efforts and create and review test plans, based on business requirements.
• Participate in new project intake meetings
• Perform test execution as and when needed
• Proactively raise, escalate and communicate quality issues and potential project risks
• Perform resource capacity planning and conduct meetings with manager and project stakeholders

• Should define the appropriate QA automation framework working with the development and architect teams
• Willingness to learn new technologies, tools and applications to support the business
• Design, create and execute automation scripts
• Proactively look at opportunities on improving the QA process with best practices as applicable
• Perform project and non-project related tasks and activities to support the department's goals and objectives

Required Qualifications

• Hands On experience creating QA dashboards
• Experience working with multiple vendors and distributed teams
• Prior work experience in Retail domain required
• Hands on experience in API automation
• 5+ years testing experience
• QA Lead experience in Agile/Scrum based projects
  • Story Point estimation experience
  • In-Sprint Automation experience
• Need robust understanding of various type of test strategies and their applicability
• Should have strong knowledge in best practices working in Agile teams, test strategies and automation
• In-Sprint Automation experience
• Proven experience in team building and hiring
• Hands on experience in TDD with Cucumber/Selenium and Java or Python
• Story Point estimation experience
• Intermediate skill level in Microsoft PowerPoint
• Experience using test automation and performance tools
• Ability to organizing, prioritizing activities across multiple projects is essential
• 3+ years of experience as a QA Lead from a retail organization

Desired Qualifications

• Experience using Microsoft UFT
• CSTE / ISQTB certification
• Working in an environment with incremental product releases is desirable
• Knowledge of DevOps and Develops Methodologies
• Experience testing applications running on iSeries
• High level experience on Performance Testing process and tool sets
• Experience in Cloud Assurance Testing
• Experience testing Oracle Retek (RMS) and OTM