Project Lead Level: 3

Job Description

Project Lead Level : 3

Hybrid (Austin, Texas - Requiring at least two days in the office each week, with the remaining days working from home )

6 Months Contract

Functional Responsibilities :

The ideal candidate has experience in leading large UAT testing efforts on system replacement projects; has been a hands-on quality assurance team member and has experience in public pension / benefit systems.

Responsibilities include :

• Ensure the User Acceptance Testing (UAT) strategy is reviewed, understood and applied during UAT
• Development and maintenance of a comprehensive UAT test plan
• Accountable for overall communication with testers and stakeholders prior to and during UAT execution; ensure information is disseminated in a timely manner
• Complete the review of the test case coverage
• Collaborate with the Solution Vendor QA Lead(s) to incorporate newly identified test cases into the Solution Vendor regression suite
• Collaborate with the Solution Vendor QA Lead(s) to create a mutually agreed-upon test execution schedule
• Develop and oversee quality assurance procedures for the pension and benefits software implementation
• Develop and enforce quality assurance methodology standards and uniform testing and documentation practices to promote efficiency, consistency, and the reuse of test plans
• Initiate corrective measures to address quality issues and improve processes
• Manage a team of quality assurance analysts and testers
• Build, manage, lead, and train the QA team based on business and operational needs
• Implement metrics and reporting tools to measure quality performance and identify improvement opportunities
• Create, track and report metrics on QA progress against plans
• Provide regular UAT progress status reports to the stakeholders
• Enforce proper usage of ADO tool (e.g., test outcome updates)
• Stay current on laws and regulations to ensure compliance
• Ensure compliance with industry standards and regulations
• Set quality standards and ensure compliance by performing audits and tests
• Provide leadership and mentoring of staff, including training and support on quality assurance best practices
• Collaborate with development teams and Solution Vendor to identify and resolve bugs and defects
• Communicate quality issues and status to stakeholders, including senior management
• Conduct functional, calculation and regression testing of system upgrades
• Apply automation principles and practices and integrate automation throughout the testing cycles, test cases, and associated utilities
• Identify and deploy testing tools to maintain alignment with industry trends and testing best practices
• Develop automated tests using tools such as Selenium, Junit and Java
• Ability to work in a dynamic environment with minimal supervision
• Ability to think tactically & strategically in technical and business discussions
• Able to understand complex processes and risks, and articulate these in business terms
• Ability to assess the effectiveness of processes and procedures and recommend improvements
• Ability to identify barriers to progress and propose solutions

Preferred requirements :