Quality Assurance Lead
Solstice is looking for a Quality Assurance Lead to join our dynamic and growing firm. The Quality Assurance Lead will perform a variety of job responsibilities related to testing digital applications across multiple platforms. This is a hands on QA role that is perfect for someone looking to take the next step in their career and establish themselves as a thought leader in the QA field.
What you can look forward to:
- Overseeing the QA efforts for the project by outlining the testing plan, process, deliverables, and staffing needs
- Ensuring QA is completed in an efficient and timely manner
- Interfacing with the client with respect to functional and UAT testing
- Reporting testing progress and metrics
- Test troubleshooting
- Setting up Rally and reporting knowledge
- Being a servant leader to QA Team, serving people first
- Providing testing direction to the team, ensuring the project team embraces executional precision
- Helping to keep up team morale and maintaining a positive attitude during adversity
- Working closely with the scrum masters to provide status updates
- Managing or working with client side testers
- Ensuring the test plan and execution metrics are in place
- Presenting relevant QA and testing topics at internal Solstice events or meetups
- Mentoring and coaching new QA testers
About You:
- Passionate about BDD and TDD
- Highly motivated self starter; a team player who works well on cross functional teams
- Strong analytical skills and ability to portray information in a logical and well organized manner
- Proven record of developing strong, positive relationships with the software development team, especially developers and business analysts
- Experience with both manual and automated testing
- Strong work ethic and commitment to the client solution and deliverables
- Experience with Agile Project Management is a strong plus; namely Scrum
- Experience in a Business Analyst or QA role for mobile applications a plus (i.e. Android, iOS)
- Proven ability to focus on value based testing and coverage with a dedication to delivery and time estimates
- Creative, solutions-oriented tester that focuses on testing coverage in the most effective and efficient way possible
- Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, Computer Science, Mathematics or a related field.
- Excellent communication skills