Job Title: Lead QA Engineer

Location: Sunnyvale, CA

Job Type: 6 Months C2H

About Us: We are a dynamic and innovative company embarking on several exciting projects in Sunnyvale, CA. We are committed to delivering high-quality solutions that meet our clients' needs. Join our team of talented professionals and contribute to our success in a collaborative and fast-paced environment.

Job Description: We are seeking an exceptional and self-motivated Lead QA Engineer to take ownership of the quality and testing efforts across multiple projects. In this role, you will be responsible for ensuring the completion of quality assurance deliverables, adherence to quality and development processes, and driving on-time project releases. You will play a crucial role in delivering high-quality projects that meet our clients' needs, collaborating with cross-functional teams to achieve our goals.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead a team of QA engineers and SDETs, driving quality initiatives, establishing metrics, applying industry best practices, and developing new tools and processes to ensure quality goals are met.
• Participate in all aspects of the QA product lifecycle, including scoping, strategizing, test case creation, and execution, covering feature, regression, integration, and end-to-end testing.
• Review technical requirements, author detailed test plans, and create test case documentation.
• Identify, isolate, and replicate software defects, research root causes, debug issues, and propose regression tests to prevent reoccurrences.
• Coach, lead, and mentor junior/new team members, and coordinate internal knowledge-sharing sessions.
• Ensure that validated deliverables meet functional, design specifications, and requirements.
• Escalate any QA issues to cross-functional teams and push for suitable resolutions in a timely manner.
• Constantly seek opportunities to improve our quality and testing approach.
• Promote QA productivity through automation, tools, and other best practices.
• Report and drive increased test automation coverage in all areas.
• Handle multiple projects and adapt to priority changes in a fast-paced environment.
• Lead overall QA activities, plan, and assign tasks to the team to meet project deadlines.
• Collaborate with Project Managers, Developers, Content Managers, and Release Engineers to deliver projects on time, ensuring the highest product quality standards.
• Participate in interviews, hiring, and onboarding of new hires.

Requirements:

• 6 years of experience testing both web and mobile applications.
• 2 years of experience in leading quality engineering teams, in a highly hands-on role.
• Solid understanding of development lifecycles, testing methodologies, and QA processes.
• Hands-on experience with test planning, test designing, and execution, implementing and maintaining quality test automation.
• Coding experience with object-oriented programming languages, preferably JavaScript.
• Experience with automation scripts using tools like Selenium WebDriver, Appium, Protractor, Mocha, Jasmine, and TestNG.
• Good understanding of web technologies including HTML, CSS, XML, JSON, and REST APIs.
• Good understanding of modern front-end frameworks such as Vue.js, React, and Angular.
• Experience with databases, API, backend systems, and mobile testing (iOS/Android).
• Experience with GitLab and continuous integration build systems such as Jenkins.
• Ability to lead QA teams and mentor junior team members.
• Ability to motivate people, instill accountability, and achieve results.
• Ability to articulate vision and manage deliverables.
• Bachelor's in Computer Science or equivalent.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, including effective presentation with a dynamic attitud