We are seeking a Test Lead in Columbus, Ohio for a remote contract opportunity who will be a key member of an agile development product team and will work closely with a diverse group of cross-functional partners to deliver digital capabilities and outstanding customer experiences across mobile, online, stores, and 3rd party solutions.
- MUST BE LOCAL TO COLUMBUS
Top 3 to 5 skills:
- Seasoned QA Lead with digital experience, experienced people manager, retail experience is preferred but not required, excellent communication and organizational skills, seasoned agile team leader/participant, has some experience building automation strategies and working with automation, experience in working in two week sprints, managing sizing/capacity for the team, can apply agile best practices
JOB DESCRIPTION:
- This role will mentor QA Analysts, define test approaches, and provide tracking and visibility into test progress throughout development sprints.
- The ideal candidate is an experienced leader in QA who enjoys working collaboratively with all disciplines, fosters teamwork, and builds trust with leadership and developers alike.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Create, execute, and maintains all manual and automated test plans, test cases, and validation procedures
- Ensures all stories are mapped and traceable to tests within a sprint to ensure adequate test coverage throughout the development lifecycle
- Develop an automated Regression Test Library and an approach to use it for testing ongoing changes to the digital products
- Set up and maintain testing metrics to show the overall progress of testing efforts for each sprint, requirement coverage, and opened/closed defects
- Report on the progress of the overall test prep/execution to leadership
- Serve as the primary point of contact for questions/direction for the Development Scrum Team
- Collaborate with QA analysts to flush out test cases following requirement grooming and 3 amigo sessions
- Contribute feedback and QA estimation sizing each sprint
- Own the identification and escalation of any issues or risks within the testing workstream
- Lead defect review meetings with the product team to determine prioritization
- Determine when the product team can proceed to final User Acceptance Testing
- Participate in all team scrum activities
- Collaborate with other product team QA Leads to unlock dependencies and leverage shared test data, systems, services
- Lead continuous testing improvement focusing on platform processes and qa best practices.
- Assess & Identify test cases candidates for Test Automation
- Contribute to building complex automated tests leveraging Java Syntax to support repetitive steps, changing variables, etc
- Recruit, train and manage QA Analysts; with accountability for implementing and maintaining platform testing standards
- Other duties as assigned.
Minimum Qualifications:
- 4 years as a QA Lead or equivalent Leadership role managing analysts that deliver testing efforts in either/or manual and automated settings
- 3+ years experience working with Scrum or Agile teams
- 6+ years of QA experience with a focus on eCommerce, user experience, website testing
- Experience with facilitating all phases of testing (integration, regression, system, UAT)
- Experience with third-party applications, including but not limited to, Jira, Confluence, TestRail, or other test management tools (e.g. ALM, Quality Center, TFS, VSTS)
- Expert in the testing process, including test scope identification, test requirements management, test case development, test scheduling, and defect management
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with IT and Business audiences
- Proven success delivering day-to-day assignments with a high level of quality and attention to detail
- Ability to Independently develop key deliverables without supervisor oversight
- Ability to influence others without authority to drive decision-making and solutions.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience in building and/or leading automated solutions leveraging automation languages or low code solutions
- Working knowledge/experience in Java Syntax
- General business and financial acumen
- Experience with fast-paced direct retail and/or e-commerce, or consulting environments
- High curiosity, problem-solving, and learning orientation
- Diverse work experience and background.
- Bachelor's degree in IT or equivalent experience.