Test Lead - IT Applications
Horizontal Talent

Overview

• The QA Lead will be a key member of an agile development product team and will work closely with a diverse group of cross-functional partners to deliver digital capabilities and outstanding customer experiences across mobile, online, stores, and 3rd party solutions.
• This role will mentor QA Analysts, define test approaches, and provide tracking and visibility into test progress throughout development sprints.
• The ideal candidate is an experienced leader in QA who enjoys working collaboratively with all disciplines, fosters teamwork, and builds trust with leadership and developers alike.

Responsibilities:?

• Create, execute, and maintains all manual and automated test plans, test cases, and validation procedures
• Ensures all stories are mapped and traceable to tests within a sprint to ensure adequate test coverage throughout the development lifecycle
• Develop an automated Regression Test Library and an approach to use it for testing ongoing changes to the digital products
• Set up and maintain testing metrics to show the overall progress of testing efforts for each sprint, requirement coverage, and opened/closed defects
• Report on the progress of the overall test prep/execution to leadership
• Serve as the primary point of contact for questions/direction for the Development Scrum Team
• Collaborate with QA analysts to flush out test cases following requirement grooming and 3 amigo sessions
• Contribute feedback and QA estimation sizing each sprint
• Own the identification and escalation of any issues or risks within the testing workstream
• Lead defect review meetings with the product team to determine prioritization
• Determine when the product team can proceed to final User Acceptance Testing
• Participate in all team scrum activities
• Collaborate with other product team QA Leads to unlock dependencies and leverage shared test data, systems, services
• Lead continuous testing improvement focusing on platform processes and qa best practices.
• Assess & Identify test cases candidates for Test Automation
• Contribute to building complex automated tests leveraging Java Syntax to support repetitive steps, changing variables, etc
• Recruit, train and manage QA Analysts; with accountability for implementing and maintaining platform testing standards
• Other duties as assigned

Minimum Qualifications:

• 4 years as a QA Lead or equivalent Leadership role managing analysts that deliver testing efforts in either/or manual and automated settings
• 3+ years experience working with Scrum or Agile teams
• 6+ years of QA experience with a focus on eCommerce, user experience, website testing
• Experience with facilitating all phases of testing (integration, regression, system, UAT)
• Experience with third-party applications, including but not limited to, Jira, Confluence, TestRail, or other test management tools (e.g. ALM, Quality Center, TFS, VSTS)
• Expert in the testing process, including test scope identification, test requirements management, test case development, test scheduling, and defect management
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with IT and Business audiences
• Proven success delivering day-to-day assignments with a high level of quality and attention to detail
• Ability to Independently develop key deliverables without supervisor oversight
• Ability to influence others without authority to drive decision-making and solutions

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in building and/or leading automated solutions leveraging automation languages or low code solutions
• Working knowledge/experience in Java Syntax
• General business and financial acumen
• Experience with fast-paced direct retail and/or e-commerce, or consulting environments
• High curiosity, problem-solving, and learning orientation
• Diverse work experience and background
• Bachelor's degree in IT or equivalent experience

TECHNICAL SKILLS
Must Have

• Acting QA Lead
• Active Agile Scrum team member
• Product Team Member
• Test Execution
• Test Process Management
• Test Strategy
• VSTS/Azure DevOps/ JIRA/TestRail

Nice To Have

• Automation experience
• Bachelor/Masters > Bachelor/Masters IT

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