QA Automation Lead
Solstice is an innovation and emerging technology firm that helps Fortune 500 companies seize new opportunities through world-changing digital solutions. As strategists and consultants, we help organizations evolve their digital strategy to solve mission-critical problems. As designers and developers, we build incredible hardware and software solutions that transcend a standalone product and transform an organization’s relationship with its customers. As instructors and coaches, we help companies transform from the inside out by adopting a high-speed culture of innovation. We’re strategists, researchers, designers and engineers hell-bent on changing the way the world does business. We’re headquartered in Chicago and have delivery offices in New York, London, and Buenos Aires.
We’re looking for a Quality Assurance Automation Lead to lead our QA automation practice and contribute to client projects.
The Automation Lead will be responsible for, but not be limited to, the following:
- Working to define and lead our QA automation practice
- Mentoring our QA’s, educating them on proper practices and techniques
- Being the coach and all-around advocate for QA Automation amongst the project team and client stakeholders
- Developing automated test scripts, test plans and test cases
- Executing automated test plans
- Maintaining and executing existing automation scripts
- Participating in functional testing, regression testing and performance testing
- Identifying bugs, issues, risks, and bottlenecks within the mobile application
Professional Skills:
- Strong executive presence and leadership skills
- QA Automation and/or Ruby development experience
- The individual must have a passion for software testing and finding bugs in software prior to deployment
- Highly motivated self-starter, a team player who works well on cross functional teams and comfortable in a leadership role
- 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
- Strong work ethic and commitment to the client solution and deliverables
Technical Skills:
- Experience with Agile Project Management is a strong plus; namely Scrum
- Experience writing and executing automated acceptance criteria using Calabash, Appium and/or another mobile test automation suite
- Experience in a Business Analyst or QA role for mobile applications a plus (i.e. Android, iOS)
- Experience using GitHub or similar code repository system
- 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