Remote - Lead Quality Engineer

NTT DATA•Englewood, CO

17h•$63,216 - $131,700•Remote

About The Position

NTT DATA strives to hire exceptional, innovative and passionate individuals who want to grow with us. If you want to be part of an inclusive, adaptable, and forward-thinking organization, apply now. We are currently seeking a Remote - Lead Quality Engineer to join our team in Parsippany, New Jersey (US-NJ), United States (US). Who we are: NTT DATA America’s strive to hire exceptional, innovative and passionate individuals who want to grow with us. Launch by NTT DATA is the culmination of the company’s strategy to acquire and integrate the skills, experience, and technology of leading digital companies, backed by NTT DATA’s core capabilities, global reach, and depth. Our clients need digital solutions that will transform their businesses and help them succeed in today’s hypercompetitive marketplace. As a team member in our Quality Engineering practice, you will help make these digital solutions come to life by ensuring every deliverable is defect-free. You will routinely deliver automated testing solutions to clients that will impact their products, customers, and services. Joining our Quality Engineering practice is not only a job, but a chance to grow your career. We will make sure to equip you with the skills you need to implement enterprise-grade test automation and help your teams produce robust, defect-free applications that you can be proud of. Whether it is providing you with training on quality assurance practices, a new programming language, test automation tools, or helping you get certified in a variety of areas, we will help you grow your skills so you can continue to deliver increasingly valuable work.

Requirements

8+ years of experience in designing and developing a new test automation framework from scratch using a test automation tool like Playwright/JavaScript/TypeScript or /Selenium/Cucumber/Java or Selenium/C#.net/Spec Flow or similar frameworks.
8+ years of hands-on experience in software testing and writing test automation code in at least one programming or scripting language (JavaScript, TypeScript, Java, C#, and/or Python) and guiding team members on the technical front.
8+ years of hands-on experience in developing and executing test scripts for REST or SOAP-based APIs.
8+ years of experience in intercepting and mocking complex HTTP API calls in UI and API tests.
2+ years of experience in messaging systems (AMQ, WMQ or Kafka).
8+ years of experience in writing and guiding teams on complex end-to-end tests automation.
8+ years of experience on test management and defect tracking tools like Jira, Azure DevOps, HP ALM, etc.
8+ years of experience in driving defect management strategy (create, set priority/severity, retest, close, traceability, reporting etc.)
3+ years of experience in driving the team to implement automated test suites for all testing types (unit, component, API, UI, UAT, E2E, etc.)
6+ years of hands-on experience in writing and executing complex SQL queries and understanding concepts like indexing, schemas, views, etc.
3+ years of experience in training team members to understand version control concepts.
3+ years of experience in performing lead-level automation code reviews as a required approver.
6+ years of experience in guiding the team on version control concepts, tools and hands-on experience on commands and operations (like commit, fetch, push, pull, squash, resolve merge conflicts etc.)
6+ years of experience in establishing branching strategy and best practices for automation code review process (in coordination with Engagement. lead, DevSecOps)
3+ years of hands-on experience on at least one of the performance testing tools (e.g., JMeter, K6, LoadRunner, NeoLoad, etc.).
3+ years of experience in analyzing performance testing requirements and implementation of load, stress, endurance, volume testing etc.
3+ years of experience in leading the team on CI/CD pipeline implementation for automated test suites. (in coordination with DevSecOps team)
2+ years of experience in creating a test plan for accessibility and security testing.
2+ years of hands-on experience on cloud platforms (e.g., Azure, AWS, GCP)
1 year of understanding of Gen AI, Gen AI tools (e.g., GitHub CoPilot), and experience in leveraging Gen AI in the quality engineering space.

Nice To Haves

Mobile test automation development is a big plus.
Experience leading and working with cross-functional teams in a fast-growing environment.
Strong organizational skills and eager to tackle new challenges.
Experience planning, designing, and implementing testing strategies and automation infrastructure for large-scale system software.

Responsibilities

Maintain an automation-first mindset and approach.
Primary point of contact for the QE team and responsible for all QE deliverables
Enforce testing best practices and guide the team to follow those standards.
Finds opportunities for automation in lieu of manual testing and enforces the Automation First, Contract First approach.
Design & develop test automation frameworks and customize test automation frameworks to project needs.
Understand and follow business requirements, identify gaps in the business requirements, advise the client accordingly, and help the team in covering all business use cases.
Able to define test strategy and lead the team in implementing it.
Guide QEs on test plan, approach, tools, and test automation scripting needs.
Identify, define, and manage tools and processes for the team.
Mentor team members on Scrum and Agile framework.
Effectively use and guide the team on the test management tool (test design, execution, reporting, traceability matrix)
Assist in the implementation of the test management tool within the team.
Establish, generate, and publish test execution & bug reports, testing metrics, trends, etc.
Effectively use and guide the team on defect management process (Create, set priority/severity, retest, close, root cause analysis, defect prevention)
Guide team members on identifying the root cause of bugs (e.g. API/BE, data, UI, logs, or environment issues etc.)
Generate and guide team members on bug metrics and reports.
Coordinate bug triage between business, dev, and test teams across all kinds of bugs.
Drive and train team members to execute automated test cases (happy path, edge cases, negative, complex business scenarios) for browser-based or mobile applications.
Drive and train team members to create and execute test cases (happy path, edge cases, negative, complex business scenarios) for REST or SOAP APIs.
Train team members to write and execute complex SQL queries and commands.
Lead internal team meetings and drive communication with clients.
Actively participate in client meetings, project-wide reviews of requirements, system architecture, and detailed design documents
Manage and perform load and stress tests using enterprise-level test automation tools.
Manage, lead, and maintain physical, virtualized, and simulated test environments.