Full Description

Duration: 6 months contract (with possible extension)

Top things looking when reviewing resumes. Program Level Leadership Experience Program/Conversion Reporting Working across development, QAS and Lines of Business. Testing Traceability Defect Triaging Leadership Clear Communication Solution and Data Driven Self Motivating The Senior Quality Lead coordinates all of the planning, execution and recap functions involved in testing and injecting quality safeguards into the development and deployment of software applications. This individual leads other QA professionals and fosters collaboration and cooperation with the greater project team in the pursuit of delivering a high quality product.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS Leads the QA team for a large transformational project and may lead multiple quality leads and is answerable to all activities conducted to ensure quality. Oversees the quality in all phases of the project including Requirement review, test script preparation, and test execution and recap. Identifies gaps and confusions in the user interface and/or the workflow , etc and highlights to the project team the risks associated with technical debt, schedule slippage or other areas of concern. Schedules resources, estimates QAS portion of project estimates and forecasts, manages testing needs with Shared Services, manages the PLC tollgates, calculates and manages traceability and test coverage, assist with test result triage, reports on overall application/project health and intercedes, when appropriate, with remediation efforts. Creates a collaborative partnership with the Tech Lead, the PM, the Client and other project participants and actively engages in grooming sessions, status meetings and other project meetings. Highly valued as a thought leader contributing to the final product.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

Education/Certifications

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent work experience required.

Experience

• Three plus years of experience in quality assurance with keen organizational skills, an ability to both delegate, lead and “dig in” with extensive knowledge of quality assurance practices and methods.
• Understands the test automation coverage and guides exploratory testers to fill the gaps.
• Intimate understanding of an application domain, the release schedule, the user community, and can work with the other members of the project team to drive delivery.
• Understands how to assess an application’s functionality by risk, impact and importance in order to prioritize the test execution and concentrate test coverage appropriately.
• Domain knowledge or the ability to quickly understand the core functionality an client experience of an application.

Competencies and Skills