LEAD QA ANALYST

Our client is seeking a Lead QA Analyst for the following :

Please double check you have the right level of experience and qualifications by reading the full overview of this opportunity below.

• Establish and evolve formal QA processes, ensuring that the team is using industry-accepted best practices.
• Oversee all aspects of quality assurance including establishing metrics, applying industry best practices, and developing new tools and processes to ensure quality goals are met.
• Act as key point of contact for all QA aspects of releases, providing QA services and coordinating QA resources internally and externally.
• Lead and mentor QA team members, as well as manage outside contract testers.
• Develop and execute test cases, scripts, plans and procedures (manual and automated).
• The engineer will be responsible for the following :
• Demonstrated ability to design, implement and enforce software quality processes and standards.
• Expertise in manual and automated testing in a variety of environments such as web, client-server, large packaged software, custom java, html, and flash-based software.
• Strong analysis skills necessary to create test data and plans that ensure new and revised systems meet business needs and create an overall understanding of the applications being supported.
• Proficiency in eliciting and developing business value and cost / benefit analysis of an initiative in conjunction with a finance partner.
• Strong collaborative skills to work across myriad stakeholder group to translate goals and objectives into delivery strategies.
• Deep and diverse experience developing action plans and processes (preferably using the Scientific Method, Lean Plan-Do-Check-Adjust) in coordination with a management team, for integrating activities and optimizing department resources to meet major goals and objectives.
• Comfortable and competent in developing internal and / or external partnerships that leverage resources and improve responsiveness.
• Experience, interest and adaptability to working in a Waterfall or Lean / Agile delivery environment.
• Exceptional collaboration, listening, written and verbal communication skills.
• Successful track record dealing with executive level professionals to drive business outcomes.
• Experience in Lean process improvement efforts.
• A consultancy approach to your work.
• Commitment to collaborate with developers and subject matter experts to establish the technical vision and analyze trade-offs between usability and performance needs.
• Qualifications :
• Position Requirements : No clearance required.
• Desired Education : Bachelor's Degree preferred.
• Desired Experience :
• 3-5 years of experience working in a software testing or software analysis role.
• 1-3 years of experience working in a technical leadership role.
• Demonstrated experience with automated testing tools (e.g. Mercury, Rational, or Winrunner).
• Experience testing or developing within any of the following technologies is preferred : Visual C , VB, Visual Interdev / ASP, Active X, COM , ODBC, OLEDB, Win32 APIs, MS SQL Server, Java, JSP, JHTML, Oracle, Solaris, Flash.
• Experience authoring comprehensive test plans and test scripts.
• Experience integrating with third party vendors for staffing needs – experience obtaining contract staff desirable.
• Deep knowledge and hands-on experience with iterative and waterfall development methodologies (e.g. BABOK, XP, Scrum, RUP, XUP, etc).
• Extremely process and detail oriented.
• Strong troubleshooting skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Desired Certifications :
• Certified Test Manager (CTM) or Certified Software Test Professional (CSTP) greatly preferred.

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