QA Team Leader

• The QA leader’s role is to develop and execute exploratory as well as automated tests in order to ensure software product quality.
• QA Lead’s responsibilities include estimating, planning, and coordinating testing activities.
• The QA Lead will also ensure that quality issues and defects are appropriately identified, documented, tracked, and resolved.
• The ability to quickly assess risk, lead a team to a decision point and ensure plans are executed are critical skills required to perform this role.
• The lead role is a very hands-on, highly interactive role in a fast-paced, ever-changing production environment.

Responsibilities

• Manage a QA team of 5-7 engineers.
• Participate in the design process to understand, analyze and influence the application/service/system to be tested.
• Identify the risks and appropriate test coverage to validate new features as well as regression, and develop test plans and cases.
• Create, maintain and upgrade load systems include automation scripts writing.
• Come up with more efficient ways to test features and identify the area of testing that can be automated.
• Install and configure the system accordingly.
• Execute test cases, manually or in an automated fashion, capture and analyze the results, document issues and prepare test reports.
• Present testing results and progress to the management team
• Use Test Management tools to create, maintain, track and execute test cases; as well as use the Defect Tracking tools.
• Analyze and identify the issues found during testing, either work with the QA teams and/or the R&D teams to diagnose them.
• Understand the business aspects, as well as the ways the customers are using the system; and check if the system is performing as it should have been
• Take over a Test Activity and feature/s lead; including planning, executing, communicating, tracking, and reporting.
• Leading activity and test project capabilities include Planning, designing, preparing, and executing the tests.
• Lead team meeting with QA team and Plant management teams
• Promote a spirit of collaboration across teams and individuals.

Basic Qualifications

• Passion for learning and mentoring.
• Passion for process automation and software quality.
• 5-7 years of QA experience including writing and executing test plans
• 2-3 years of management experience
• 2-3 years of experience in designing and writing QA automation
• Knowledge of script programming (Python, Bash, etc.).
• Strong knowledge of telecommunications protocols (Mobile, VoLTE)
• Strong design, coding and debugging skills (hands-on).
• Experience in writing clear, concise, and comprehensive test plans and test cases
• Advanced hands-on experience in building automated regression testing capabilities using current technologies
• Team player, Independent, out-of-the-box thinker, and self-learner.
• The ability to work in a dynamic environment which can be changed frequently
• Good interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills in English
• Bachelor’s Degree in a Science or Engineering related discipline.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with OpenStack
• Familiar with CI, CD processes
• Experience with JIRA preferred
• VMWare and/or Hyper-V environment knowledge and experience with, NETWORKING, and TELEPHONY protocols knowledge
• Familiarity with computer networking/storage technologies