QA Automation Lead

Unifyed is seeking a full-time QA Automation Lead to join our growing company. We are looking for a QA Automation Lead to Lead QA team on overall testing activities, approaches, and strategies. The QA Automation Lead will be responsible for execution by the QA team on different types of testing. 

• Lead QA team on overall testing activities, approaches, and strategies
• Establish, maintain, and oversee all aspects of QA processes and methodologies to ensure effectiveness and alignment to industry best practices
• Prepare, review, and maintain testing documents (test plan, test cases, test reports,) to ensure complete test coverage
• Manage proper execution by the QA team on different types of testing (functional, integration, end-to-end, performance, etc)
• Perform QA testing activities as required (test case preparation, testing execution, environment setup, installation, etc)
• Facilitate and lead regular QA team meetings or triage calls
• Prioritize testing activities
• Efficient management of QA resources across multiple projects
• Coordinate the maintenance of test environments. Must be able to work closely with Dev Ops and the client to support deployment and testing of parallel releases for all channels and platforms.
• Provide strategic testing initiatives for projects to introduce efficient techniques and test productivity improvements
• Manage risks and deliverables to ensure that the testing activities remain within agreed scope, schedule, budget, and quality standards
• Work with project manager and development team to report and escalate relevant testing issues and challenges that arise during testing activities
• Responsible for reporting metrics, test reports, plans, and problems to upper management and other involved parties
• Provide support, assistance, or decisions to QA, support engineer, and customer’s test teams (e.g., recreate issues reported by the customer in production, or in support of customer queries)
• Conduct QA team performance review and improvement
• Work and collaborate with other teams across different offices of the company to achieve organizational objectives when needed
• Provide effort and estimates of testing activities required for the projects or deliverables when needed
• Manage or prepare customer demo presentations for project deliverables when needed
• Create a cross-functional task force that focuses on the role of QA software development. This insures that quality is discussed with members of the business unit, not just the development team.
• Educate the application development and deployment teams on the role of QA in their success. With sufficient education, QA members will be consulted early and often.
• Ensure that QA management is part of the team determining the new vision of applications. When QA management is part of development, the resulting applications are easier to fix and test.
• Educate business management on the importance of quality testing. Business management can become a key ally in assuring software quality
• · To impress upon the business the importance of quality, tie quality initiatives into corporate imperatives such as Sarbanes Oxley and HIPPA.

• 10+ experience as Software QA including 3+ experience as QA Senior/Lead/Manager
• Experience in people management or leading a team
• Solid experience in Agile testing methodologies and best practices.
• Solid experience with development and testing of complex enterprise or customer-facing applications
• Expert knowledge of software testing, quality improvement, quality process, quality assurance methodologies, and best practices.
• Experience and good understanding of automation testing and frameworks