QA Lead

Job Title:- QA Engineer/SDET Lead Job Location:- St. Louis MO Long Term Contract Job and Responsibilities:-

• Senior Testing Specialist/ SDET Description:
• CLient is looking for an experienced Quality Engineer/SDET lead to join our engineering team and to work with one of the leading financial services organization in the US.
• The candidate must have solid understanding of QA/QE activities & process, possess excellent leadership skills, written and verbal communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively with domain experts and technical experts in the team.
• The candidate must have proven experience in test design and analyzing and troubleshooting results with a development team. Responsibilities:
• Work with the scrum team to identify testing needs and opportunities.
• Work with the QA team in developing a QA testing strategy for the project, determining the appropriate balance of manual and automated tests, as well as the types of tests (UI, web service API, functional/performance/load, and so on).
  • Create test plans, identify testing scenarios, test cases, test data, and report defects
• Identify and define quality improvement factors Implement methods to inspect, test and evaluate the reliability of the product and applications Develop automated test frameworks and test cases for the different types of tests
• Execute and report on the full testing suite of both manual and automated tests.
• Coordinate with the Offshore team and other technical team members
• Prepare QA certificates and support release activities
• Report status and QE matrices with the client stakeholders and UST leadership Requirements:
• BS degree or higher in Computer Science or related technical field involving coding
• 1 plus of lead experience coordinating with other QE's, engineers, product owners, and SMEs
• Excellent communication skills, verbal and written, able to communicate with technical people as well as business and management.
• Expertise in QA methodologies, Test Process and practices.
• 6 plus years of Software Engineering testing experience with manual testing, automation testing, developing and executing automated test scripts using Automated Testing Tools (such as Selenium, Cucumber etc.)
• 2 plus years of hands on experience using Selenium and Cucumber
• Must have strong development experience in Java , object-oriented design and development
• Working experience with Selenium WebDriver (Java) Expertise in testing object-oriented and service-oriented design, and multi-threaded services/applications.
• Prior hands-on experience in testing cloud architectures that include multi-tenancy, horizontal scale, micro services and RESTful APIs is an added advantage.
• Knowledge of testing SQL and understanding of database queries Hands-on experience with TestNG
• Strong hands-on experience in the API Testing using Rest Assured/HTTPClient/Karate tools Knowledge in CI/CD using Jenkins