IT Quality Assurance Manager

Job Description

PAVE Mobility of Dania Beach, FL, is seeking a full-time experienced and motivated IT Quality Assurance Manager to lead and develop a team of testing professionals. This position will play a pivotal role in automating testing processes, ensuring the quality of our applications, and fostering a culture of excellence in test automation. The ideal candidate will be proficient in both manual and automated testing methodologies and capable of mentoring a team to become specialists in test automation. The IT Quality Assurance Manager works a full-time 40-hour week.

PAVE Mobility is a parking-enforcement solution offering powerful, user-friendly tools to simplify parking operations. We believe that fair parking regulations improve the customer experience and help businesses operate more efficiently. PAVE Mobility’s license plate recognition technology enforces regulations with zero friction or frustration. It’s the key to running an efficient and scalable parking operation.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Leadership and Team Development:

Lead and mentor a team of QA engineers in both manual and automated testing practices.

Foster a collaborative and innovative environment, encouraging team members to adopt test automation and advanced testing methodologies.

Manage resource allocation, team growth, and performance evaluations.

2. Testing Strategy and Implementation:

Design, implement, and maintain comprehensive test strategies for applications, APIs, services, and data structures.

Oversee the development and execution of automated and manual test cases, ensuring full test coverage.

Drive the adoption of continuous testing practices in CI/CD pipelines.

3. Automation Frameworks and Tools:

Lead the implementation and optimization of test automation frameworks and tools, such as Selenium WebDriver, Cucumber, JUnit, TestNG, and Postman.

Maven for pipeline automation

Bitbucket

Employ monitoring and visualization tools like Grafana for real-time insights into testing processes.

4. Collaboration and Communication:

Partner with development, product management, and DevOps teams to ensure quality is embedded throughout the software development lifecycle.

Communicate quality metrics, testing progress, and risks to stakeholders.

Collaborate with teams using design tools like Swagger for API documentation and user interface validations.

5. Test Management and Bug Tracking:

Manage test cases and execution using JIRA and XRAY (JIRA plugin).

Oversee defect tracking and resolution processes to maintain high-quality standards.

6. Technology Expertise:

Ensure team proficiency in programming and scripting languages such as Java, SQL, HTML, XML, and Gherkin.

Provide expertise in database querying (e.g., MySQL) and experience with AWS and Microsoft Azure.

Promote best practices for test environments using IntelliJ IDEA.

Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a related field. Preferred. Experience may compensate for degree.

Minimum 2 years proven experience as a Quality Assurance Manager or similar role, with a strong focus on test automation.

Proficiency in the listed tools, frameworks, and technologies.

Solid understanding of software development lifecycles and Agile methodologies.

Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

Excellent leadership, communication, and organizational abilities.

ISTQB or equivalent certification is a plus.

What We Offer:

Competitive salary, competitive benefits, including medical, dental, vision, paid time off (PTO) and holidays.

Opportunities for professional growth and development.

A collaborative and innovative work environment.

Access to cutting-edge technologies and tools.

***Join us and play a vital role in delivering high-quality, reliable software solutions while leading a talented team towards excellence in test automation and quality assurance.

Physical Demands and Work Environment

The physical demands described here represent those that an employee must meet to perform the essential functions of this position successfully. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the functions.

While performing the duties of this position, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to use hands or fingers, handle or feel objects, tools, or controls. The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; sit; and reach with hands and arms. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities this position requires include close vision, distance vision, and the ability to adjust focus. The noise level in the work environment is low to moderate.

PAVE MOBILITY is committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We embrace diversity and equal opportunity, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Full-time