Sr. QA Testing Lead

*Per the client, No C2C's!*

Central Point Partners is currently interviewing candidates in the Columbus, Oh area for a large client.

Because this is a Contract to Hire position only GC’s and USC’s.

This position is Hybrid (4 Days onsite)! Only candidates who are local to Columbus, Oh will be considered.

Sr. QA Testing Lead

Notes from the manager:

She likes candidates who are able to communicate effectively with management, strives for "the why". Takes initiative without “hand holding”, looks for the next thing to do. This person will be the lead on the team, no direct reports, just the SME while also being a hands on tester. Schedules and LEADS all testing. Responsible for the planning, integration, test casing, scripting and execution of all testing to ensure proper coverage; Schedules and leads test deliverables review sessions as necessary; Work on multiple projects/systems as a project team member and are considered to be a subject matter expert for a single project/system.

JOB DESCRIPTION

QA Testing Documentation

Test Strategy (Waterfall) creation/management

Test Plan (ADO) creation/management

Test Suites (ADO) creation/management

Test Case (ADO) creation/management

Test Execution (ADO) management/execution

Bug (ADO) creation/management

UAT Testing Documentation Oversight on below deliverables

Test Strategy (Waterfall)

Test Plan (ADO)

Test Suites (ADO)

Test Case (ADO)

Test Execution (ADO)

Bugs (ADO)

Project/Initiative status reporting for including but limited to):

Testing status/metrics for all QA and UAT impacted teams

Bugs for the entire project/initiative

Tracking/Status/Metrics

Risks to planned testing or progress for all impacted teams

Blockers to planned testing or progress for all impacted teams

Test Readiness/Health

i.e. If test cases or test suites cannot be built due to a poorly groomed user story

Dev/Int/QA maintenance

Lab/environment prep working with Dev Lead

Bug Triage

Assist in bug triage and root cause analysis

Assign priority based on enterprise standard

Communication of all bugs to vendors and impacted teams

Coordinate needs between vendors and impacted teams to ensure all info is provided to triage/fix the bug

Establish a bug review meeting to include all vendors and impacted teams

Meeting Support

Participate grooming sessions for User Stories and Bugs

Facilitate Bug Review and Triage sessions

Participate as SME on all project meetings

Testing

Estimation

Coaching & Mentoring all QA and UAT testers

Coordinated testing with vendors and/or impacted teams (when applicable)

Account conditioning for QA and UAT teams

ADO

Team board maintenance

Project/initiative dashboard maintenance

Go No Go Test Documentation Deliverables

Requirements/User Story Traceability

Bug Summary by state and severity

Deferred Bugs by severity

QA & UAT Test Execution Outcome for all impacted teams

Production Implementation and Validation (when possible)

Responsible for the planning, integration, test casing, scripting and execution of all testing to ensure proper coverage; Schedules and leads test deliverables review sessions as necessary; Work on multiple projects/systems as a project team member and are considered to be a subject matter expert for a single project/system. These projects are of moderate to high complexity within one or more development environments; Collaborate with the BSA and Development teams in the analysis and review of business objectives and requirements to ensure requirements are testable; Actively participate in the review of architectural and technical design specifications; Develop, document and maintain the test data, data validation, end to end testing flows.; Conducts testing using manual and/or automated test processes and reports results; May run database queries in order to supply data validation within test scripts; Updates test cases based upon approved change requests; Works with BSAs and Development teams on defect analysis and triage; Assigns defect severity, and manages defects throughout the project; Works with colleagues and project managers to meet established target dates and completion of activities/deliverables under changing conditions; Creates test status reports per project guidelines; Creates test results and test summary deliverables to ensure production implementation readiness; Creates and facilitates review of the Test Strategy with the project team; Identifies any potential quality issues per defined processes and escalates potential quality issues immediately to management; Collects testing sign-off from all testing participants, including cross-impacted application teams; Ensures all aspects of testing, such as manual execution, regression, automation and performance testing, is completed; Collaborates with Project Test Lead on estimating the test efforts; Collaborates with the project team to support UAT efforts as needed; Maintains the regression test bed to meet changing requirements; Participates in off-hour production releases as needed; Supports the projectis warranty period as needed; Works under moderate supervision with some latitude for independent judgement and problem solving; Provides mentorship to junior team members as needed; Understands and follows the project lifecycle methodology consistently.

For more information about this opportunity, please contact Bill Hart at AND email your resume to !