Lead Quality Assurance Engineer

Main Job Responsibilities

• Design and implement quality process, and quality metrics for cloud and on-premise based application
• Analyze changes and new features to the product based on functional and design requirements, recommending appropriate test strategies
• Allocate and manage work of other team members
• Develop test plans and specifications and implement/code test cases
• Drive product test-ability into product requirements
• Ensure test case design and execution methodologies are technically sound
• Continually increase the complexity of functional test suites
• Perform hands-on testing for complex features or on demand
• Interact with customer support to collect data and identify areas of the product that may not meet supportability and quality standards. Develop a plan/proposal/design for addressing such issues
• Participate with the Quality Assurance team in defining and managing quality assurance processes and procedures
• Work very closely with the PO and Engineering teams to understand the product features and mentor other team members
• Create goals for the team and also write performance appraisals of team members.
• Interview, Hire and train Quality Engineers
• Drive increased efficiency across the teams, eliminating duplication, leveraging product and technology reuse
• Work cross functionally with other business departments to align activities and deliverables
• Deliver resource strategy and plans, including use of 3rd parties/partners, etc., in support of development and support activities
• Elaborate on other testing products like Testing Matrix, Validation Checklists, Test Plans
• Elaborate and lead the execution of automation strategies
• Estimate delivery schedules for the QA activities, track and deliver the activities as per estimations
• Lead the activities to pursue quality certifications of the company, products and/or projects like SOC, IEEE, and other known industry standards
• Deliver Reports on the different activities carried out by the Quality Assurance department
• Plan, coordinate, lead, establish directives and best practices, report the automation of the testing of the projects and features using Tricentis Tosca