Lead Automation QA

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the overall planning and execution of testing activities for the team in support of the successful delivery of project initiatives.
• Establish a functional testing approach for feature and regression testing.
• Monitors scope and requirements changes and assesses the impact on the test management deliverables.
• Provides accurate estimates, drives automation and reuse where appropriate, and reports on test progress.
• Accountable for execution and delivery of the defect management process and reporting.
• Drives integration, system, and regression testing plans and facilitates reporting and signoff.
• Define and implement testing automation strategy.
• Able to design test plans for existing and new functionality.
• Implement and execute complex test cases and maintain associated test records.
• Participates in agile estimation taking into consideration product and process requirements during the development lifecycle.
• Identify patterns that need to be addressed from a quality perspective prior to hitting QA environments.
• Utilize automated test scripts to perform regression and functional tests.
• Follows defined engineering process during the development lifecycle.
• Performs peer test reviews to identify improvements to test plans.
• Recognized as an expert in one or more areas of product functionality.
• Coordinates his/her own work as well as the work required from others.
• Demonstrates mastery of problem-solving skills-test plans seldom require re-work.
• Demonstrates strong ownership and accountability for deliverables.
• Proactively works with other team members as needed to resolve issues and meet project goals.
• Work closely with the QA Analyst team and automate process where needed.
• Managing, mentoring and building a great QA Automation team.
• Providing real-time, ongoing coaching and feedback to team members throughout the year.
• On-time completion of performance management activities including regular 1:1s and Bi-annual performance reviews through GPS.
• Supporting employee development including facilitation of career development conversations and crafting development plans for current and future needs.
• Taking action to hire and retain high-performers and address poor performance.
• Proactively manage change initiatives within the team including sufficient planning/ preparation and communication to minimize disruption and support employee adoption.
• Role modeling the behaviors that support and drive the Flash culture and values.

Minimum Requirements:

• Relevant IT Tertiary Qualification.
• ISTQB Certification (Test Analyst, Technical Test Analyst or Test Manager).
• 8 - 10 years’ experience in a testing or similar role.
• Experience in Automation testing.
• Experience in leading a team.
• Understanding of the SDLC and how QA fits into the process.
• Experience working with automation frameworks (Selenium, Cucumber, Appium or similar).
• Test case scripting and performance testing (JMeter, Grinder, Load Runner).
• Knowledge of IT and basic SQL skills.
• Working knowledge of test management software (DevOps, Rally, qTest, Zephyr, TestComplete).
• Extensive skills in QA methodologies and release processes.
• Strong communication skills and experience partnering with key stakeholders and business leaders.
• Solid understanding of Agile development methodology.
• Has an innovative approach – a bold thinker and doer, matching creativity with vigilance.
• Experience of introducing new concepts or strategies that significantly improve or revise the way business is done through to implementation.

Advantageous:

• Software development skills.
• CI/CD Pipelines.
• Continuous integration tests (Jenkins, Docker, Maven, Bamboo, TeamCity, Ant).

Attributes:

• Strong Leadership Skills.
• Responsible for resource capacity plan(s).
• Offer technical guidance to QA Engineers.
• Play leadership role during test plan and test case reviews, providing direct feedback to Quality Engineers and offshore testing team members.
• Provide guidance around automation strategies, working with the QA Specialist and Application Development.