Lead Quality Assurance Tester

TEKsystems•Catonsville, MD

3d•Onsite

About The Position

Think of TEKsystems Global Services (TGS) as the growth solution for enterprises today. We unleash growth through technology, strategy, design, execution and operations with a customer-first mindset for bold business leaders. We deliver cloud, data and customer experience solutions. Our partnerships with leading cloud, design and business intelligence platforms fuel our expertise. We value deep relationships, dedication to serving others and inclusion. We drive positive outcomes for our people and our business, and we stay true to our commitments and act in harmony with our words. We exist to create significant opportunity for people to achieve fulfillment through career success. Ready to join us? Here’s what the opportunity supported through our TGS Talent Acquisition Team requires: The SDET is responsible for ensuring the quality of an application using various QA & Development tools, technologies and programing languages. The Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) must have experience designing, developing and implementing test automation frameworks in an agile environment. The SDET is expected to operate with minimum supervision and manage their daily activities. An excellent communicator, they are able to identify and raise potential problems, omissions, quality risks, and feel comfortable escalating problems in a timely manner and manage them to closure. They are self-motivated, excel when challenged, and take initiative to raise the quality bar.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree or 4-year college degree in Computer Science or engineering-related fields or relevant work experience
Minimum of 8 years of QA experience and 5 years of QA/ Automated test development experience
Minimum of 1 year of team leading experience
Experienced in implementing and adopting Continuous Testing (CT) methodologies, practices and technologies
Experience working with various integrated development environments, including but not limited to, JavaScript and Java
Extensive experience developing UI automated tests with Selenium WebDriver, Protractor, WebDrive.io and Nightwatch.js
Experience with other test automation tools, such as Rest Assured, Galen, Chakram or variations of these tools.
Experience with cloud base services and platforms; AWS, Azure, Google
Experience with performance testing tools such as Gatling and Jmeter
Experience testing and developing automated tests for both REST and SOAP services using RestAssured and Karate or similar tools such as Supertest and Checkrum
Experience in Developing Consumer-Contract Test using custom test framework, PACT or other similar implementations
Excellent knowledge of test automation methodologies, best practices e.g. Page Object Model, and programming design patterns e.g. Object Oriented Programming, S.O.L.I.D

Responsibilities

Leads automation architecture (frameworks) development and implementation efforts.
Design, develops, maintains and provide advisory for automation solution
Applies common development and test automation design patterns (e.g. OOP, Page Object Model)
Performs test case, code and test review for his feature or automation development team. Uses various tools and development skills to enhance and facilitate testing
Mines, identifies, creates and validates data from various data sources
Develops software tests of software applications and other types of applications based on defined requirements and stories.
Applies QA and Testing processes and best practices to projects. Will also provide coaching/mentoring on best practices; keeper of the quality vison
Devises automation architectures and QA strategies/plans appropriate for the given development methodology.
Ensures all levels of testing are performed with the right approach and adequate coverage.
Participates in backlog grooming sessions with the team to validate the requirements
Assists the team is refining user stories and determining acceptance criteria.
Performs front-end and back-end analysis of applications.
Works with the team to implement nightly/continuous integration build/deploy/test framework.
Logs defects, anomalies and issues into defect tracking system and reviews them with project team members to assist with resolution.
Proposes and implements solutions to quality-related process issues within the context of assigned projects.
Reports test results and status to the team.
Is able to work in a highly dynamic project environment, effectively adapting to changing requirements, priorities and schedules.
Is capable of working with technically complex software.
Has a strong ability to work in an open, dynamic, and collaborative team environment.
Is comfortable interacting with different groups, all levels of leadership, and client contacts.
Capable of functioning as a test lead on medium to high complexity projects and providing supervision to others.