Director of QA & Test Automation (Hybrid)

***Hybrid, 3 days onsite, 2 days remote***

***We are unable to sponsor as this is a permanent full-time role***

A prestigious company is looking for a Director of QA Engineering. This role will manager over multiple testing teams, with a total from 5-20 direct reports.This area will focus on functional/integration/data/automation testing.

Responsibilities:

• Define and own end to end test strategy for Ovation applications, covering functional, integration and data validation needs.
• Lead system integration testing (SIT) and regression testing across multiple applications, ensuring optimal test coverage.
• Drive automation-first approach using Cucumber based automation framework for UI, API, batch and Kafka layers
• Establish and scale test data strategy, including synthetic test data approaches
• Works in an Agile team throughout the Lifecycle to collaborate on the analysis, design, development and testing
• Review User stories for the sprint with the users and get user approval before sprint is closed
• Actively participates in the Sprint planning session and assist in creating stories with robust acceptance criteria while helping identify missing or incomplete requirements
• Analyze the business requirements, understand the expectation from end user, review with Business Analysts/SMEs and design test scenarios
• Attend daily scrum standup and report testing issues
• Lead Creation of test data, detailed test cases for validating business functions and regression testing
• Monitors and updates defect reports as needed to ensure timely problem resolution
• Oversee release testing readiness, environment readiness and entry/exit gate adherence
• Lead defect triage, root cause analysis, and drive defect prevention initiatives
• Conducts regression, integration, and systems testing on newly designed or modified applications/systems
• Govern quality gates, testing observability and metrics
• Performs application and project risk analysis and recommends quality improvements
• Assists production support by testing time sensitive defects and providing advice on system functionality
• Participate in the communication and analysis of test results and patterns, providing a feedback loop to requirements gathering, design and development teams
• Identify, evaluate, and recommend automation testing tools
• Provide accurate timelines to the stakeholders and make sure deadlines are met without effecting the quality of the product
• Be the point of contact for the responsible applications and provide support as needed
• Prioritize, assign and balance workload of the team as per the timelines
• Responsible for continuously improving the QA process and technologies
• Drive and maintain automation efforts across multiple areas

Qualifications:

• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or a related discipline or an equivalent combination of education and work experience
• Directs one or more team(s) responsible for design of test cases, automation and execution of testing
• Prior management experience of small to medium sized teams (5-20) with a track record of success
• 10+ years’ experience in combination of Quality Assurance, Project Management, or other related IT disciplines
• Advanced knowledge of a development lifecycle and Quality Engineering under Waterfall and/or Agile methodologies
• Broad-based knowledge of Lifecyle development, change control management, test planning, test and defect management
• Strong analytical skills with potential to display methods of testing highly sophisticated systems, progressively diagnose system defects, and clearly communicate project constituents, key findings and learnings
• Advanced experience with team leadership and development
• Experience with AWS cloud deployments and microservices and event driven applications
• Familiarity with BDD and TDD concepts as it relates to test automation
• SDLC and testing tools such as Jira, Jenkins, Cucumber, SpiraTest
• Relational databases and query tools. (SQL Server, Oracle and DB2)
• Automated testing tool experience (Selenium, RestAssured, Cucumber, )
• Programming/Scripting Experience/knowledge in any one language (Java, VB script, Python, SQL)