QA Lead

Quality Assurance Lead

Primary Responsibilities:

Lead test strategy, balancing priorities such as test coverage, test quality, competing demands, and project schedule

Track, measure, and report on progress identifying, writing, and executing tests, and resolving defects

Identify systemic problems, inefficiencies, risks, and opportunities for improvement; work with workstream leads and vendor to develop and implement plans to address

Work with workstream leads and with vendor to set overall testing approach for different functional areas

Manage review of test scripts and witnessing of test execution by the vendor

Evaluate completeness of test coverage

Collaborate with workstream leads on implications of design changes to test scripts and implications of test findings to design

Monitor progress of vendor's compliance with contractual requirements

Evaluate ways to demonstrate compliance with a requirement

Review certifications and test waiver requests

Manage the compliance matrix, which tracks vendor progress toward meeting over 7,000 contractual requirements

Notify stakeholders of updates to compliance matrix, coordinate their review of changes, and manage preparation of comments and their transmittal to vendor

Manage defect handling, including reporting, prioritization, tracking, and validating resolution

Work with vendor to track, communicate, and validate deployment of features and bugfixes to lab environment

Hold vendor accountable for lab hardware and software availability

Minimum Requirements:

Five (5) years of experience in quality assurance, vendor management, and/or technology design/testing/implementation/operation

Experience with developing, implementing and/or overseeing test plans and test reports

, policies, procedures, contracts and technical requirements

Effective organizational, analytical, time management, interpersonal and multi-tasking skills; attention to detail

Experience using online collaboration and tracking tools (e.g. Slack, Asana, Basecamp, Jira, etc.)

The ability to work effectively with a diverse workforce

Preferences:

Strong knowledge of software QA methodologies, tools and processes

Experience with software testing, including front-end, back-end and integrations

Experience with quality assurance for specialized devices/hardware

Experience working with the output of a development team who you do not directly supervise and cannot directly control

Experience with performance and/or security testing

Experience working in transportation, with a government agency, or with payment technology

Experience with defining, writing and enforcing technical requirement