Job Openings QA Lead

About the job QA Lead

  • Collaborate with product owners, developers, and stakeholders to define clear acceptance criteria including cross functional requirements 
  • Promote and advocate for quality throughout SDLC applying shift left and shift right quality mindset. 
  • Guide the test strategy for the team and contribute to the overall departmental test strategy. 
  • Demonstrate adaptability to the test approach based on evolving team and project needs. 
  • Define and implement efficient testing processes, methodologies, and best practices. 
  • Balance exploratory and automated testing efforts for optimal test coverage. 
  • Drive the team to create a reliable automated test suite with strong reporting capabilities that ensures simple, effective analysis of failures 
  • Integrate testing processes seamlessly into CI/CD workflows for rapid and reliable software delivery. 
  • Encourage and apply Test Driven Development (TDD) and pair programming practices. 
  • Foster a culture of continuous improvement and adaptation within their development team. 
  • Share new and innovative ideas about quality and agile techniques with the delivery team and the Quality community. 
  • Mentor members of the team and fellow Quality Engineers 

Skills & Ability

  • Possess strong knowledge and experience in performance testing, UI automation, API testing, contract testing. 
  • Understand existing alerting and monitoring dashboards, and suggest changes that make product quality visible 
  • Thrive in a cross-functional team, collaborating closely with developers, Product Owners, Agile delivery leads, QEs, Engineering Managers and other stakeholders.
  • Be embedded in one of two teams working on the legacy platform.
  • Take ownership of testing features and bug fixes and support release readiness across multiple business domains.
  • Communicate proactively about risks, blockers, and test coverage.

Knowledge & Experience

  • API Frameworks
  • C#
  • Reqnroll
  • NUnit / XUnit
  • RestSharp
  • UI Frameworks
  • Playwright (TypeScript)
  • Playwright (C#)
  • Performance Frameworks
  • k6 (nice to have)
  • Familiarity with Azure DevOps / cloud tools
  • Insurance domain knowledge nice to have.