Sr. Quality Engineering Consultant

Software Guidance & Assistance, Inc., (SGA), is searching for a Sr. Quality Engineering Consultantfor a Contract assignment with one of our premier Financial Services clients in New York, NY. Responsibilities :

• Responsible for executing Quality Engineering practices and test automation within a product squad and coaching other quality engineering staff in the Chapter.
• Ensuring that the staff provide Agile quality practices for product development through vision and implementation.
• Drive recruitment, development, and evaluation of Quality Engineering Chapter members; foster a culture of excellence and continuous improvement that brings knowledge consistency and spreads best practices across the Chapter.
• Identify and implement advanced Quality Engineering principles proactively to improve product delivery quality on a continuous basis.
• Design and develop automated test scripts that ensure applications meet their functional and non-functional requirements.
• Support the Continuous Delivery vision by designing automation to integrate with build pipelines, and other automated unit, integration, and system tests.
• Provide technical support to and conduct code reviews of other quality engineers in the Chapter.
• Promote innovation and evolution of quality engineering techniques, test automation technologies and ensure pervasive quality in product development.
• Devise and influence test strategies for mission critical systems and implement comprehensive test coverage for complex changes that require testing efforts to span across multiple products and squads.
• Drive Agile adoption and find opportunities for gaining efficiencies in quality practices, thereby reducing end-to-end testing cycle times for mission critical applications.
• Identify and provide continuous development (e.g., training, mentoring) of chapter members and foster a community of quality oversight.
• Proactively coach all squad members on quality culture from vision to implementation.
• Collaborate with Division Leads to maintain effective staffing within squads.
• Oversee collection of formative and evaluative feedback from each chapter member's network of professional connections.
• Attract and recruit the industry's top talent conduct interviews and onboard candidates.

• Demonstrated ability to implement and operate test automation, continuous integration, continuous testing and continuous deployment (CI/CD) at scale across a portfolio of Agile initiatives to enable faster time to market.
• 5+ years of experience in Agile cross-functional teams and iterative development methodologies, with extensive experience delivering solutions across different technical environments.
• 5+ years of experience in building Java-based test automation and working with automated frameworks and tools (Selenium and REST Assured automation experience is a plus).
• 4+ years of RDBMS and SQL experience.
• Knowledge of Message Queues is a plus.
• Experience with developing and providing constructive feedback on unit tests, integration tests, and system tests.
• Experience with Jenkins and Selenium Grid for continuous testing.
• Experience using with Java-related toolsets such as Maven, the Eclipse or IntelliJ IDE, and the Spring framework.
• Demonstrated ability to develop and maintain relationships, balance multiple stakeholder interests, and build coalitions.
• Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills; highly collaborative working style, strong interpersonal capabilities and relationship building; proven ability to manage diverse client and stakeholder relationships, and to collaborate effectively with customers and colleagues.
• Excellent influence and negotiation skills; ability to facilitate discussions around complex issues and bring them to resolution.
• Excellent written and verbal skills with ability to present ideas in a business and user-friendly language.
• Strong understanding of risk-based test strategy preparation based on all stories and non-functional requirements of mission critical systems.
• Ability to adapt to continually changing priorities and evolving delivery schedules.
• Solid understanding of, and experience in, Behavior Driven Development (BDD), Test Driven Development (TDD), defining enterprise-wide standards for product quality, establishing and managing KPIs for the Quality in our products.
• Solid comprehension, training, and experience in leveraging dynamic test environments, cloud technologies, test data management strategies and test infrastructure design.