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Automation Quality Assurance Lead
Location : Reston, VA / Hybrid Work Environment
Job Overview
The Manager, Quality Assurance leverages experience and knowledge of QA practices, automation testing and testing frameworks to support and advance QA objectives. The role is responsible for designing and building manual and automated tests to validate digital products and applications. Additionally, the role supports the Senior Manager, Quality Assurance and QA objectives through deliverables (e.g., test plans, test cases and activities such as requirements and systems walkthroughs). This role involves leading testing with onshore / offshore QA resources.
Key Responsibilities :
- Design, develop, and test software components for applications built on .NET, Azure and latest generation technologies.
- Manage defect life cycle ensuring they are documented, tracked and reported to facilitate timely resolution.
- Report the status of test planning, defects and execution activities, including regular status updates to the project team using quality metrics.
- Hands on with test automation - write automation scripts to cover end to end functionalities of different products.
- Collaborate closely and enthusiastically with Technical Leads, Product Owners, Developers, QA Engineers, IT Operations during discover, design, development and testing in an Agile environment.
- Leverage team development standards, patterns and design principles in daily activities with a DevSecOps mindset.
- Create test plans, test cases.
- Provide estimates for test activities and deliverables.
- Develop and execute functional and non-functional automated or manual testing, as needed.
- Provide code reviews of other automation scripts with constructive feedback for all QA Engineers of any level.
- Write API tests and integrate tests to automation framework.
- Draft and update documents as needed for sharing knowledge, increasing efficiency and mitigating key person dependency.
- Continually enhance own skills and build knowledge in all aspects of the organization, the business and information systems.
- Other responsibilities and duties, as assigned.
Minimum Requirements :
The physical demands and work environment characteristics described are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job . Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Desired Skills / Experience :
