Senior Test Automation Lead

360 IT Professionals is a California base Minority Business Enterprise specializing in the field
of IT Consulting and Staffing. Since our Inception we have been providing industry leading IT solutions for Staffing and Software Development. We have more than 30 IT Staffing Services contracts across USA and working closely with Fortune 500 Companies and Key Private sector Agencies. We are providing staffing support to more than 10 State Customers across USA and have successfully staffed for more than 260 roles in last 6 months.

Job Title:
Test Automation Lead

Work Location:
Albany, NY 12205

Duration: 06 months

The Test Automation Lead is responsible for test automation for the NY-SoH and will be working in a high intensity, deadline driven environment. They will be responsible for planning, designing, deploying, maintenance and troubleshooting through all layers of the Testing Development Life Cycle. The Test Automation Lead responsible for Test Automation will work as part of the NY-SoH testing Teams and with the NYSOH management leadership, and be responsible for working with all application teams to facilitate the delivery needs of the program.

Minimum Job Qualifications:

1. Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university in computer science, mathematics, or engineering or a mathematics intensive discipline

2. Seven or more years of project planning/management experience and people management experience

3. Experience working with business process test methodologies environment, demand for products and market competition

4. Must have a proven experience of at least 3 consecutive and recent years in leading the development of automation framework and automation (functional) test scripts

5. Must have a minimum of 3 years of proven experience managing an On Shore test automation team of at least 10 test automation developers

6. Must have proven experience developing custom automation scripts in either Rational RFT or Selenium using Java.

Responsibilities:

· Serves as the Automation Team Lead, responsible for Test Automation. Lead approximately 12 testers, negotiate scope, develop estimates, plans, monitoring metrics, and provide daily guidance to the team and the client. Provide daily metrics to the project leadership. Support the life cycle of the change requests.

· Performs complex analyses of business goals, objectives and needs of the general business environment to align information technology solutions with business initiatives for a complex account. Serves as a subject matter expert and the liaison between technical personnel and non-technical personnel. Plans and designs complex business processes and system modifications. Makes recommendations to improve and support business activities.

· Facilitates and coordinates all Test Automation project activities from inception through completion of entire systems development lifecycle of multiple projects; including estimating, scheduling, status tracking, reporting, and issue and risk mitigating responsibilities.

· Identifies appropriate resources and staffs projects. Organizes automation test team(s) members to ensure communication and understanding of deadlines, assignments and objectives. Acts as the point of contact to client's project management.

· Manages costs, schedules and quality by overseeing test automation deliverables. Ensures schedule and budget are met. Identifies need for change, determines course of action and revises as appropriate.

· Oversees the ongoing review of Automation test(s) status; identifies risks. Develops, recommends and implements risk mitigation solutions and implements as appropriate.

· Works in conjunctions with team members and stakeholders to anticipate and manage changes to test…