Lead QA and Automation

Key responsibilities include

• Drive and own the Quality roadmap for the organization
• Provide technical leadership, career development, and management of performance, objectives, and priorities of all reporting staff
• Drive initiatives to improve testing at all levels & deliver automation to ensure robustness
• Drive adoption of best practices, tools, systems and metrics across the organization and create a shared vision of product quality and maintain strong cross-functional relationships / alignment within & across the business units
• Knowledge of automation testing frameworks like selenium along with good exposure to JBehave or Cucumber, Selenium WebDriver 3.0 and/or Protractor ,Appium or Espresso or UI Automator, Jenkins, ReSTful/SOAP Webservices. Tools like Postman, SOAP UI, Junit testing, Maven/Gradle,Xpath , CSS, Databases, Apache Jmeter 3.0, Dynatrace 5.6 / 6.1,Mocking /Stubbing of code,
  Agile environment
• Strong experience in Automation framework, tools, building automation solutions & accelerators
• Exposure to functional testing & white box testing with a strong understanding of/experience with SQA methodologies, techniques and approaches
• Experience of automating distributed (multi-tiered) systems & mobile app on Android/iOS.
• Experience with a variety of types of testing, including whitebox, performance and security.
• Strong experience in CI/CD, TDD, BDD, SOA, API, mobile automation
• Knowledge of multiple Industry standard and open source test automation tools
• Candidate will be responsible for leading teams that do the following
  • Manual/Function testing, regression testing and automation testing
  • Continuously improve the test cases and make the system more robust
  • Ensure proper version control and configuration management of all test objects developed and test environments used.
  • Identify and properly report defects and verify fixed defects
  • Develop test plans and test procedures based on requirements, specifications, and issues reported from the field thereby ensuring proper test coverage
  • Verify that new/enhanced functionality is correctly implemented

Leadership Skills:
Experience in reviewing test services estimations and risk management plans

• Successfully manage multiple complex projects in parallel
• Build, train, mentor & manage multiple high performance teams
• Effective Communication skills and ability to maintain and build client relationships
• Independent ownership and successful delivery of projects with expected quality deliverables
• Define business process, risk analysis and mitigation, and providing baseline acceptance criteria and deliverables.
• Experience in translating business requirements to understandable QA requirements
• Preferred : PMP certified professional
• Program/Project Management, Project Schedule, Project Tracking and Team Management, Resource planning