QA Lead

Our client, an energy services holding company, is seeking a QA Lead

Location: Wall, NJ (Hybrid)

Position Type: Contract

Basic Function:

The NEXT QA Lead is responsible for leading QA strategy, planning, and oversight across the NEXT Program, which involves diverse work streams including Oracle, SAP, Clevest and Maximo.

This role should lead the development of structure, systems, and processes to guide and execute testing and working with onshore/offshore employee and system integrated teams and test resources across teams, locations, and functions, including functional teams, integration, and data.

This role has overall responsibility for guiding the objectives and outcomes of the day-to-day testing resources and ensuring that the QA function is adequately validating the desired functionality based on integrated workflows across projects.

Major Responsibilities:

Lead the QA functions within the NEXT program, including setting the QA strategy for theprogram

Manage team of test analysts, prioritizing and directing work, providing feedback, and ensuringquality deliverables

Work with scrum teams, architecture, program and project leadership, and internal and externaltest resources to ensure QA function meets objectives and is executed efficiently

Communicate to program and project leadership the status of QA and work to mitigate risks

Manage appropriate test environments and tools, including test automation tools, and/orrecommend changes as appropriate

Work with infrastructure and cyber security teams to arrange the hardware and softwarerequirements for the test setup

Ensure that test teams follow established test standards, guidelines, and methodology.Recommend changes as appropriate; Advocate for the bugs/product changes that will helpoverall customer experience

Guide objectives and manage phase containment across different test phases including UnitTest, Functional QA, Systems Integration, Regression, User Acceptance, End-to-End, and Datatesting

Manage constituent test teams' work throughout test plan development and test execution toensure that QA works within program timelines and budgets

Ensure that all test results are easily accessible, understandable, and stored in a commonrepository

Measure and monitor progress during each test phase to ensure that the application is tested,validated, and deployed on time and within budget, and that it meets or exceeds expectations

Review test, validation, and results to ensure that they meet the entry and exit criteria

Participate in quality management reviews to ensure adherence to all quality managementplans and standards

Identify test cases that could or should be automated and can be made part of the continuousdelivery pipeline

Identifying and implementing test center capabilities that will integrate without effort with JIRA

Establish and maintain close working relationships with key stakeholders to understand businessobjectives, anticipate demand and rapidly respond with working solutions

Develop an understanding of all integrated systems (such as Oracle, SAP, Maximo) that will beimpacted by the implementation and develop strategy and plan for testing that will need tooccur

Analyze requirements and aid in designing test plans, cases, and data sets to ensure solutionsmeet business goals, objectives, and functional/non-functional requirements in alignment witharchitectural standards.

Work with other team members and leaders, proactively identify and mitigate/resolve risks andissues; Manage and oversight of test team to ensure timely test execution, proper test resultdocumentation, timely defects/issues reporting, and timely retest

Identifies tasks and interrelationships to evaluate technical and cross-technical requirements

Provide subject matter expertise to internal customers around testing methodologies and howto successfully plan and execute testing strategies across integrated solutions

Experience:

6+ years' experience with testing and test leadership across multiple phases and types oftesting, from planning through execution

Experience with defining, implementing, and maintaining project process guidance related totesting

Experience providing technical leadership to project resources to meet testing deadlines and objectives

Ability to review project deliverables for completeness, quality, and compliance with established project standards

Experience with documenting and communicating the status of testing progress against plans, taking corrective action as necessary

Highly experienced writing test plans and test cases, and documenting software defects and anomalies
•Ability to develop and manage all aspects of the testing effort, including plans, interdependencies, schedule, budget, tools, and required personnel

In-depth knowledge of the SDLC as well as various software testing methodologies

Experience with Agile Scrum delivery and Waterfall delivery frameworks

Experience working with distributed external resources and vendor teams (onshore and offshore)

Experience with at least one of the following project and QA tools - JIRA, Team/SharePoint, Test Suites such as HP Quality Center, Zephyr, or Selenium

Experience with at least one or more programming or scripting languages (e.g., SQL, Java, JavaScript, Unix, XML)

Experience with configuration management / build management procedures

Exhibits excellent oral communication, written communication, organizational, and time management skills in dealing with internal and external clients

Ability to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical personnel at all levels

Exposure to a range of business applications SAP, Oracle, Maximo as well as working with both cloud and on-prem solutions, including legacy

Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Engineering or Computer Science, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and work experience

Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot and program complex application stack

Excellent interpersonal, communication and team-facilitation skills

Strong attention to detail and deadlines

Preferred, but not required, knowledge and understanding of the utility industry

Ability to work well under pressure and work on multiple projects concurrently

Ability to work well with global team members/suppliers

Ability to work independently with minimal supervision