Quality Engineering Lead

$100,000 - $160,000/Yr

Vista Equity Partners - New York, NY

Full-time - Mid Level

New York, NY

Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles

About the position

The Quality Engineering Lead at Applause is responsible for establishing and maintaining a robust software quality assurance (QA) practice. This role involves leading a team of QA engineers, developing testing strategies, and ensuring the implementation of QA standards and procedures. The position emphasizes collaboration with development teams to enhance product quality and includes both manual and automated testing responsibilities.

Responsibilities

• Implement and enforce QA and QC standards, policies, and procedures.
• Ensure the QE team designs, implements, and maintains comprehensive test plan/test cases; review test results to ensure they meet established standards or adjust improve results.
• Collaborate with developers to improve overall product quality by emphasizing defect prevention throughout the development process.
• Provide testing strategy and leadership including the implementation of automated testing frameworks.
• Develop and execute formal test plan for both manual and automated test solutions for validation and accreditations.
• Work closely with the development team to understand ongoing software changes, define acceptance criteria, derive release testing requirements, validate changes, and update test procedures.
• Perform manual exploratory testing during development operations.
• Provide technical expertise and ownership in diagnosis and resolution of issues, including determination and provision of workaround solution or escalation to service owners.
• Identify potential risks associated with new releases.
• Collaborate closely with key stakeholders to explain and verify defects, communicate critical issues and status updates in a timely manner.
• Provide coaching and guidance to the QA team on best practices.
• Participate in sprint planning, standup meetings and retrospectives to ensure alignment and process improvements.
• Other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• 8+ years of software QA End to End experience
• Demonstrated leadership qualities
• Strong Knowledge of software QA concepts and methodology with phenomenal attention to detail and a passion for quality
• Exposure to development or test automation tools/frameworks, experience developing automation frameworks and test suites
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent
• Internal and external client-focused attitude with excellent communication skills
• Excellent analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills
• High level of self-initiate and self-motivation with Strong interpersonal and technical skills.

Benefits

• Competitive salary range of $100,000 - $160,000 based on experience and qualifications.
• Opportunities for professional development and growth within the company.
• A culture that values diversity, inclusion, and respect among employees.