Director of QA & Test Automation (Hybrid)

***Hybrid, 3 days onsite, 2 days remote*** ***We are unable to sponsor as this is a permanent full-time role*** A prestigious company is looking for a Director of QA Engineering. This role will manager over multiple testing teams, with a total from 5-20 direct reports.This area will focus on functional/integration/data/automation testing. Responsibilities: Define and own end to end test strategy for Ovation applications, covering functional, integration and data validation needs. Lead system integration testing (SIT) and regression testing across multiple applications, ensuring optimal test coverage. Drive automation-first approach using Cucumber based automation framework for UI, API, batch and Kafka layers Establish and scale test data strategy, including synthetic test data approaches Works in an Agile team throughout the Lifecycle to collaborate on the analysis, design, development and testing Review User stories for the sprint with the users and get user approval before sprint is closed Actively participates in the Sprint planning session and assist in creating stories with robust acceptance criteria while helping identify missing or incomplete requirements Analyze the business requirements, understand the expectation from end user, review with Business Analysts/SMEs and design test scenarios Attend daily scrum standup and report testing issues Lead Creation of test data, detailed test cases for validating business functions and regression testing Monitors and updates defect reports as needed to ensure timely problem resolution Oversee release testing readiness, environment readiness and entry/exit gate adherence Lead defect triage, root cause analysis, and drive defect prevention initiatives Conducts regression, integration, and systems testing on newly designed or modified applications/systems Govern quality gates, testing observability and metrics Performs application and project risk analysis and recommends quality improvements Assists production support by testing time sensitive defects and providing advice on system functionality Participate in the communication and analysis of test results and patterns, providing a feedback loop to requirements gathering, design and development teams Identify, evaluate, and recommend automation testing tools Provide accurate timelines to the stakeholders and make sure deadlines are met without effecting the quality of the product Be the point of contact for the responsible applications and provide support as needed Prioritize, assign and balance workload of the team as per the timelines Responsible for continuously improving the QA process and technologies Drive and maintain automation efforts across multiple areas Qualifications: Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or a related discipline or an equivalent combination of education and work experience Directs one or more team(s) responsible for design of test cases, automation and execution of testing Prior management experience of small to medium sized teams (5-20) with a track record of success 10+ years’ experience in combination of Quality Assurance, Project Management, or other related IT disciplines Advanced knowledge of a development lifecycle and Quality Engineering under Waterfall and/or Agile methodologies Broad-based knowledge of Lifecyle development, change control management, test planning, test and defect management Strong analytical skills with potential to display methods of testing highly sophisticated systems, progressively diagnose system defects, and clearly communicate project constituents, key findings and learnings Advanced experience with team leadership and development Experience with AWS cloud deployments and microservices and event driven applications Familiarity with BDD and TDD concepts as it relates to test automation SDLC and testing tools such as Jira, Jenkins, Cucumber, SpiraTest Relational databases and query tools. (SQL Server, Oracle and DB2) Automated testing tool experience (Selenium, RestAssured, Cucumber, ) Programming/Scripting Experience/knowledge in any one language (Java, VB script, Python, SQL)

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