Lead QA Automation Engineer - Contract

Contract Role

Location: Albany, NY

Responsibilities:

Working for the QA Lead, the Tester Level 3 will manage and oversee quality assurance activities initially related to the program then move on to other program areas.

Manage adherence to the Program Level testing strategy, quality assurance processes, artifacts and tools

Manage quality assurance team and deliverables

Liaison with relevant stakeholders, including subject matter experts, users, executive teams, etc. to ensure that projects meet business needs

Oversee adherence to the Program Level testing strategy, quality assurance processes, artifacts and tools

Review deliverables from vendors to ensure system testing and delivery are in line with business needs, as described in the requirements

Create and Maintain Test Automation scripts and Frameworks and provide guidance and advice to other resources to do the same

Produce reports to Management and Project teams regarding status of Testing Efforts and Defect Management

Manage test environments, test accounts and test data according to best practices.

Manage blended teams of State and vendor resources

Requirements:

Level III- 7+ years of experience working on complex projects with 2 or more years in a leadership role as a Tester

7+ years of work experience in quality assurance, managing testing across multiple high-profile projects, with complex functional domains, within a matrix organization.

5+ years of work experience reporting and presenting to stakeholders and senior management.

Desired Qualifications:

7+ years of work experience developing testing products including test plans, test cases, automated test scripts and defect reporting documentation.

3 - 5 years of work experience with automated testing tools such as Selenium., Katalon etc.

3-5 years years of work experience with defect tracking and test planning tools such as Jira, Jira-related plug-ins or HP Application Lifecycle Management/Quality Center.

3-5 years of work experience in java scripting or related programing languages within the context of developing automated test script solutions.

3-5 years of work experience supervising teams of quality analysts.

3-5 years of work experience leading and facilitating meetings, workgroups, etc.

3-5 years of work experience with creating reports and dashboards for test metrics using Jira or other tool

3-5 years of work experience managing the defect lifecycle including defect creation, monitoring and status reporting as well as retesting defect fixes.

2+ years work experience coordinating with, and liaising with, performance testing teams or security testing teams.

2-4 years of work experience with Eligibility, Enrollment and Case Management related systems