Lead Quality Engineer; Java,SQL,Agile | Remote

Lead Quality Engineer

Work location – Telecommute.

Work hours – 8.00am – 5.00pm day shift.

Summary of the project/initiative:

• Act as hands on lead for end-to-end testing of the application (Functional, Integration, Regression, Performance, etc.)
• Quality Assurance/Testing
  - Review design plans, process procedures, test procedures, and quality manuals to understand the scope, requirements, and functionality of products.
• Overall knowledge of STLC and SDLC.
• Develop in-depth system and application knowledge to provide higher test quality and coverage.
• Collaborate as part of the scrum team in grooming user stories and development of acceptance criteria for the user stories. Share and communicate ideas to business, managers, and the team.
• Maintaining good quality documentation of test cases and other validations
  - Document and review test cases and test results with project team to validate that all business and technical requirements have been met and will be covered with our testing process.
• Validate the quality of the product and confirm completion of assignments to meet QA/release deadlines.
• Build product expertise to identify and build automation test coverage.
• Act as hands on lead for automation and performance testing – Ability to take end to end ownership for automation and performance.
• Constantly evaluate and enhance the test automation strategy and approach
  - Building and maintaining automation frameworks utilizing tools such as Selenium, BDD, etc.
• Design, develop and implement automated tests.
• Ability to learn new automation tools.
• Building and maintaining Performance/Load testing frameworks using tools such as Load Runner, JMeter, or Performance Center
• Mentor and direct other testers in automation, performance, and quality engineering principles
• Writing SQL queries
• Analyzes data to identify trends in product quality or defects with the goal of mitigating and preventing recurrence and future defects.

Ideal candidate background:

• Healthcare specific background preferred.
• Skills/attributes required:
• 8+ years of experience in software testing and automation
• 5+ years of experience in SQL skills and experience working with RDBMS.
• 4+ years of experience in implementing test automation strategies, automated testing methodologies, and approaches, tools, techniques (unit, functional, integration), executing automated test suites, and debugging test.
• Technical skills/Tools:
• 4+ years of experience with 1 or more performance tools:
  Java, SQL, JMeter, GIT, Docker, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Splunk, Grafana
• 4+ years of experience with 1 or more automation tools:
  Java, SQL, TestNG, Selenium, Eclipse, Maven
• 4+ years of experience with 1 or more API testing tools: SOAP UI, Postman, REST Assured
• 4+ years of experience with Continuous Integration tools – Jenkins, Bit bucket, Git Hub
• 4+ years of experience with Agile methodology and agile tools like rally
• 2+ years of experience with leading team in offshore/onshore model
• Skills/attributes preferred:
• Bachelor’s Degree or higher
• Prior Healthcare experience
• Experience using a ticketing system (Service Now, etc.)
• Experience working with Pick, AutoIT is preferred.
• Experience working in a CI/CD environment.
• Proven solid verbal communication skills to effectively collaborate with the engineering team and create testing plans

Interview process:

• Video.
• 2-3 rounds.
• Very technical.