Lead Quality Assurance Engineer

Lead Quality Assurance Engineer

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, related field, or equivalent experience required
• 7+ years of relevant experience in quality assurance, with a proven track record of leading testing initiatives and driving quality in complex, cross-functional environments.
• Hands-on coding experience (e.g., test automation scripting) is required to support automation and DevSecOps practices.
• Experience with AI-Driven tools and methodologies to enhance testing efficiency and accuracy. (required)

Responsibilities

• Provides leadership to cross functional teams to test the functionality and quality through automated and manual testing for highly complex features.
• Contributes to the definition of the quality assurance roadmap, and the organization’s engineering and technology strategy.
• Manages quality of the overall solution and artifacts developed for cross functional initiatives.
• Acts as key point of contact for all quality assurance (QA) aspects of releases, providing QA services and coordinating with all involved teams including development, QA, and other release management teams.
• Provides oversight of testing scope and develops testing strategy.
• Manages comprehensive test case development, test data repository management, test plan development.
• Creates and updates test summary artifacts.
• Develops, maintains, and executes automation of test scripts.
• Writes and executes automated checks, and identifies, analyzes, and reports bugs.
• Works with IT Product Leadership to understand acceptance criteria and support and gather feedback from user acceptance testing.
• Supports the alignment of Agile practices for testing scope and develop testing strategy.
• Supports, monitors and measures requirements, outputs, and metrics for testing that are aligned with anticipated lead and cycle times.
• Develops working relationships with peers across the engineering teams, collaborating to develop solutions.
• Leads cross functional teams to assess and track the quality of technical specifications and ensures that they are in line with stakeholder expectations and to review test cases for detail and accuracy.
• Assists in the planning process for software development efforts and ensure meeting quality and delivery standards in alignment with Enterprise QA Strategy.
• Leads the planning and implementation testing (e.g., regression, functional, data validation, system integration, load, or performance tests) for new and existing functionality.
• Identifies and orchestrates implementation of opportunities to reduce testing time and effort by automating repeatable tests.
• Defines and champions quality and testing best practices among development teams and Enterprise QA community.
• Supports DevSecOps transformation by enabling the organization to expand on Continuous Testing within the Software Development life cycle.
• Assesses and identifies technology needs and opportunities, making recommendations for system enhancements, upgrades, or replacements.

Preferred Qualifications

• Background and experience in Oil & Gas industry preferred.
• Preferred certifications (not required):
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900) to demonstrate familiarity with cloud-based testing environments.
• Certified Software Quality Analyst (CSQA) to showcase expertise in QA process leadership.
• ISTQB Certified Tester Foundation Level (CTFL) to validate core testing competencies.
• ISTQB Certified Tester in Agile Testing (CTFL-AT) to ensure proficiency in Agile testing methodologies.