Position Summary: Litera is looking for a lead QA Engineer to provide expertise on scrums teams using scrum methodology on how software is built with quality in mind and assured through manual and automated tests.
Who You Are:
- Accountable
- Driven
- Energetic
- Proactive
- Smart
- Emotional Intelligence
Key Responsibilities:
- Drive the automation road-map to increase coverage from unit to UI tests on the team
- Provides QA expertise through instruction of team members on how to test our software and lead by example
- Design, code, and document automated test cases within a defined framework
- Develop software interfaces between the system under test and the automation framework
- Encourage integration and promote obtaining shared goals with team members
- Establish and evolve formal QA processes, ensuring that the team is using industry-accepted best practices
- Willingness to promote and participate in new initiatives
- Balances best practice decisions with delivering high business value (right vs right now)
- Communicates unacceptable risks to quality
- Improve standard operating procedures to ensure consistency in the way we test software
- Lead agile planning from a QA perspective by establishing tasks/estimates
- Ask the right questions at the right time to reduce the introduction of quality risk
- Follow through and communicate design decisions to everyone on the team
- Work with Architects to ensure the team's direction is in line with enterprise vision
- Work with DevOps to ensure QA environments are configured to be production-like
- 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
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent years of experience
- 5+ years of relevant QA technical experience with at least 3+ years in a lead role
- Knowledge of test case design techniques like boundary, decision tables, and BDD (Behavior Driven Development) / TDD (Test Driven Development)
- Excellent knowledge of test automation methodologies, best practices (i.e. Page Object Model)
- Experience with implementing a test automation framework/tools (i.e. Selenium, Robot, Capybara)
- Experience building tests / testing software with tools that include C#/Python/Java/RSpec within desktop and web environments
- Experience with deployment tools, build/release automation and Continuous Delivery
- Experience with large data set creation, back-end testing (SQL), being able to validate information as it flows throughout the system
- Exposure to Azure, Amazon AWS, and/or other cloud platforms preferred
- Experience with troubleshooting installs, server performance and monitoring logs
- Working collaboratively with team members in a dynamic environment
- Passion and drive for automation and sound engineering practice
Who We Are:
Litera, headquartered in Chicago, IL, is a fast-growing software company and one of the leading legal technology suppliers in the world. Serving over 90% of the world's largest law firms, our software is used by hundreds of thousands of lawyers every day. As a company recently selected for Crain's Best Places to Work in Chicago, we believe professional development, rewards programs, open communication, and transparent leadership all contribute to a unique and open work environment. Our employees have the ability to make a direct impact on the future of the company while enjoying random ice cream and bagel parties, cold brew on tap, and an occasional ping pong match.