Urgent need for lead QA Engineer - Cincinnati, OH - /USC

Lead Quality Engineer - Data

Location: Blue Ash/Cincinnati, OH

6 month contract to hire - PERMemployment based/USC

Prescreening Details: automated/standard, 5 questions and a game

There were candidates submitted who were rejected because they did not have enough leadership experience

Job Description

The highly experienced quality professional who works under supervision, learns quickly, and brings ideas and passion to their daily responsibilities and executes work to completion with excellence in a timely manner.

Top 3 skills: Resource should have cross-functional QA expertise - automated frontend testing, test plan lifecycle, test data management, etc.

Also looking for a resource with prior MAWM experience.

Soft Skills Needed: communication, working with 3rd parties and vendors/offshore, collaboration, experience in large enterprise systems as well.

Mixed between a lead and an SDET, need someone with an executive presents, who can communicate well to leadership, clear concise and comfortable presenting to high level execs.

Large 3rd party systems, need to understand the complexities. Warehouse management, transportation and yard management systems -Manhattan active supply chain management in general around warehouse and transportation

Skill/Experience Requirements:

• 8 years of QA experience
• Experience working with CI tools (Jenkins, TeamCity, GitLab etc.)
• Experience with QA processes and deliverables in an Agile/Scrum environment
• Proficient in defect tracking and analyzing root cause utilizing tools (Jira , Rally etc.)
• Strong understanding of automation and performance concepts and approaches.
• Experience working with or on remote teams
• Understand and utilize risk-based testing technique
• Experience in test environment and test data management

• Strong communication, leadership and collaboration skills, to challenge the norm

Specialization/Role Requirements for Automation

• 5 years of experience writing Selenium tests in Java or Javascript using ( Web Driver , Web Driver IO, Marathon , Appium etc.)
• 5 years of experience with test runners (Junit, TestNG, Mocha, Jasmine)
• 5 years of experience with CI tools (Jenkins, TeamCity, GitLab)
• 2 years of experience with Selenium Grid
• 3 years of working in an Agile/Scrum methodology
• 2 years of using Jira for defect tracking

Key Responsibilities

• Effectively work in a fast paced environment utilizing the Agile methodology

• Develop and maintain functional automation test scripts utilizing modular frameworks and best practices
• Execute test scripts to validate correct functionality of application
• Use SQL for back-end database validation
• Perform various types of testing including smoke, white box, black box, integration, end-to-end, regression, and system testing as needed
• Participate in requirement & design review sessions; evaluate requirements & design docs from a quality test automation standpoint
• Manage test coverage based on risk analysis
• Document defects and evaluate priority of defect based on overall application functionality
• Coordinate test script reviews with stakeholders as appropriate.
• Adhere to requirement review, defect writing & test script writing guidelines
• Ensure completion of all deliverables within schedule, budget and quality constraints.
• Participate in Root Cause Analysis sessions
• Ensure that projects follow prescribed software development life cycle standards.
• Develop and maintain good relationships with project team.
• Multi-task to meet assignment deadlines
• Accurately estimate work assignments
• Show assertiveness
• Identify obstacles and roadblocks; and offer suggestions to work around obstacles
• Help drive and improve QA Process