Test Lead

Test Lead Job Description

People Inc. Group has an opening for a Test Lead in New York, NY.

The position duties are as follows:
Responsible for reviewing requirements and working closely with developers, product managers, and other teams to ensure the software meets quality standards and is ready for release. Daily job duties include:

• Analyze testing patterns and effectively communicate insights to managers.
• Monitor application health during and post-deployment by analyzing logs, metrics, and test results.
• Lead efforts to improve test processes across multiple SCRUM teams in collaboration with managers.
• Debug CI/CD test infrastructure for functional test orchestration.
• Provide constructive feedback on test scenarios developed by senior QA analysts to ensure comprehensive test coverage.
• Align technical testing strategies with business objectives to ensure seamless integration.
• Analyze application and infrastructure logs with APM tools to identify application boundary issues.
• Utilize expertise in test automation creation and test maintenance activities on a daily basis to oversee framework and ensure maintenance best practices.
• Identify and remediate flaky tests through root cause analysis and test stabilization techniques.
• Troubleshoot Jenkins job failures and pipeline errors to ensure continuous delivery stability.
• Analyze metrics from automated performance tests, load tests, and monitoring tools to provide actionable insights.
• Work closely with SCRUM teams to understand business priorities and contribute to timely, high-quality deliverables.
• Communicate status updates and priorities clearly to ensure alignment across teams.
• Conduct code reviews and provide feedback to senior engineers to enhance readability and optimize test code.
• Enhance the automation framework to support and benefit other automation engineers.
• Review and critique framework implementations by senior QA engineers to drive continuous improvements.
• Offer constructive feedback to analysts and engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement. Participate in technical recruiting efforts by identifying and recommending best-fit candidates.
• Design, execute, and maintain automated regression tests using Telescope, Voyager-UI, and Case Gen in JavaScript, and Nova-MCP in Type Script, integrated with CI/CD pipelines for consistent daily coverage.

The position requires a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Computer Information Sciences, a related technical field or foreign equivalent, followed by 4 years of experience as a quality assurance analyst or tester. Experience must include:

• 4 years of experience creating and running test cases for different types of testing, including manual, functional, regression, integration, and compatibility.
• 4 years of experience defect tracking and management (using tools Jira, Test Rail or Azure).
• 4 years of experience with test management tools (including Jira) and Agile methodologies and overall SDLC.
• 2 years of experience with automated testing frameworks(including Selenium and Playwright)
• 2 years of experience testing APIs and data validation with tools such as Postman or Swagger
• 2 years of experience with basic programming/scripting (including Java, and JavaScript or Type Script)
• 2 years of experience with CI/CD exposure (including Jenkins and Git Hub Actions)
• 2 years of experience with Version control (including Git)
• 1 year of Cloud basic experience, including a demonstrated understanding of cloud-based environments, deployments and testing applications hosted on cloud infrastructure.
• 1 year of experience with performance testing tools (including JMeter and Google Lighthouse)
• 1 year of experience with test reporting and monitoring tools (e.g. Allure, Grafana, Kibana)

This…