QA Lead/ Test Manager(Locals preferable with public sector experience)

Lead QA /Test Manager duties:· As a member of the Quality Assurance Team, follows directions from the Manager of the Product Development & Deliver Team.

• Leads the development of quality assurance (QA) test project strategies, methodologies, and standard processes for all QA domains by analyzing business and technology requirements to ensure testability, traceability and determining testing scope and approach.
• Develops quality assurance (QA) Test plan for project by identifying project scope, work plans, schedules, milestones, and critical paths, and ensuring proper staffing.
• Oversees and addresses critical issues, dependencies, and risks related to testing.
• Reviews testing scope and approach, and partners with cross-functional IT and business stakeholders to review and approve the overall testing approach.
• Manages/Develops test scenarios and execution of test cases across all testing phases (e.g., SIT, Performance, UAT, Automation, Production, Validation).
• Ensures quality metrics are tracked across testing phases (e.g., SIT, Performance, UAT, Automation, Production, Validation).
• Manages the review and validation of testable business processes, test data, and test environment requirements.
• Develops guidelines and best practices to ensure test plans and timelines are aligned with project/program milestones.

• Generates scheduled reports (e.g., test execution, defects, ad hoc reports) and provides daily test execution metrics to IT teams and management, as appropriate using ALM.

• Responsible for defining acceptance criteria for each sprint and related test cases and automation opportunities.
• Architect the test automation framework.

• Support defining Performance Testing Strategy.
• Identifies metrics for monitoring increased performance and scalability.
• Provides guidance for performance test initiatives that take a true end-to-end focus on ensuring client side, server tiers, database and data integration jobs are performing as expected.
• Troubleshoots performance, load, and stress testing through analysis of system design/coding.
• Provides training/mentoring/educating of team members
• Performs related work as assigned.