Team Lead - QA

QA/Automation Bonifacio Global City, Philippines


Description

Responsibilities

  • Conduct advanced research and comprehensive, efficient, and innovative software testing of highly complex and high-profile projects and provide approvals during development sprints, integration, release, regression and patch software development phases, document results.
  • Perform comprehensive testing and validate that program modules meet specifications and standards; anticipate risks and issues before they occur and determine short- and long-term strategies to meet customer’s current and future testing needs.
  • Create and maintain test plans and test cases covering highly complex test cases for the product and features.
  • Create release test plans ensuring they are comprehensive, efficient, and maintained strategically; take primary responsibility for certifying a product release for all testing assignments.
  • Participate and provide expertise, innovate ideas, and solutions during agile scrum meetings to gain and apply knowledge of feature requirements, system operation, and ensure new feature stories have appropriate test criteria defined.
  • Review and edit highly complex regression test case scripts.
  • Document software defects in the issue-tracking system and proactively communicate with software developers.
  • Consult with product/development in the design of acceptance test criteria for new product feature stories.
  • Lead product teams on process improvement and other QA initiatives.
  • Identify new procedures, methods, and/or tools, to improve the efficiency of the QA process.
  • Work with and across teams to accomplish quality initiatives and align processes and tools.
  • Proactively stay abreast of the latest trends in software development and quality assurance and proactively identify/implement technical solutions to problems.
  • Provide QA reporting, including test status, defect resolution, and prevention. Collaborate with teams to manage test data and use third-party tools for database interactions.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, or comparable work experience.
  • Typically, 8 or more years of experience in software quality assurance and 5+ years of experience in leading and mentoring QA teams and leading cross-functional collaboration.
  • Advanced understanding of QA testing methodologies and practices.
  • Experience designing and executing functional UI, backend and APIs based manual tests.
  • Solid knowledge and experience with relational databases including solid knowledge and understanding of SQL and query writing.
  • Experience with the Agile – Scrum, Kanban or Lean development processes is required.
  • Experience with security testing (sqli, xss, etc) is a plus.
  • Experience with project management tools (Jira, Confluence) and test management tools (Zephyr, TestRail etc.).
  • Experience leading and providing direction for large scale projects.
  • Strong time management skills with proven track record of delivering successful results.
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills to work effectively with cross-functional teams and stakeholders.
  • Proven ability to multitask and deliver in a fast-paced environment.
  • Attention to detail, critical thinking, and analytical skills.