QA Lead Engineer

Title: QA Lead Engineer Location: Portland, OR Duration: 6 -12 Months Job Description:

• Create and maintain a test strategy and test plan for each Testing Cycle and/or Sprints.
• Create and maintain test scripts and its steps.
• Maintain and present testing metrics using the Veritas Dashboard.
• Lead the creation, maintenance, and scaling of automation of test scripts
• Work closely with vertical and horizontal teams to review feature requirements to plan for automated testing during sprint cycles
• Ensure that automated tests are integrated and execute reliably during builds across multiple environments and realms
• Maintain and provide direction for updating existing automated testing scripts
• Perform highly hands-on test script development
• Establish meaningful, actionable quality and test metrics
• Analyze and report on test automation progress
• Analyze test results, perform root cause analysis and file tickets as necessary
• Design and develop innovative ideas to solve unique, technical problems
• Jira experience required
• Veritas Dashboard familiarity required
• Jenkins / UFT / Github knowledge required

• Bachelor's degree required, with an educational emphasis in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Software Development, Information Systems, and/or Web Development.
• 5+ years of related industry experience in software development and/or software quality assurance.
• Experience developing test strategies utilizing manual/automated tests, different technologies, and diverse toolsets
• Created meaningful, actionable quality and test metrics
• Extensive experience in using at least one of the test automation technologies in an agile driven development environment: QTP/UFT, Selenium, Tricentis, Rest-Assured, SOAP UI, Postman, JMeter
• Working knowledge of AWS solutions (EC2, S3, CloudWatch, Lamda, etc.)
• Experience in at least one of the following: API testing, SAP S4 Hana testing, testing cloud solutions, CI/CD pipelines
• Experience in working CI/CD environment using Jenkins, GIT, Bitbucket etc., and able to integrate the test automation with a DevOps tool stack.
• Experience working in agile environments
• Able to influence, tell a story, and adapt communication to your audience at all levels of the organization verbally or using email
• Able to communicate complex concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Willingness to ask questions, challenge assumptions, hold others accountable and adapt solutions to meet the needs of multiple stakeholders.
• Ability to provide options, assess tradeoffs, make recommendations, to drive decisions collaboratively in a cross-functional team
• Ability to translate business needs to technical requirements and provide accurate estimates
• A self-starter and a fast learner with a strong sense of ownership that uses successes and failures as learning opportunities
• You have led and held others accountable in delivering quality improvement initiatives
• Lead with courage when it comes to making a tactical and strategic decision
• Good planning and organization skills
• Experience working with geographically diverse teams
• You are proactive when it comes to new opportunities, tackling tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy, and enthusiasm
• You take risks and can make quick, data-driven decisions
• You have a sense of humor and don't take yourself too seriously

• Working knowledge of DevOps processes and practices
• Proficiency with at least one modern programming language (Java, NodeJS, .NET, etc) and RESTFUL web services
• Working knowledge of at least one scripting language (Bash, Ruby, Python, Perl)
• Working knowledge of any of the following technologies: Mulesoft, Swagger, Docker, ELK Stack, Elastic Search, Grafana, Splunk
• Experience with building, maintaining CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Docker, and modern deployment methodologies
• Proficiency in building, managing, deploying AWS solutions (EC2, S3, CloudWatch, Lamda, etc.)
• Experience managing vendors