Skillset Group IT has an immediate opportunity available for an experienced Lead Quality Engineer for Testing.

Lead Software Quality Engineer

Location: Remote - Work from home office

Position Type: Fulltime Employee, or Contract to Hire

Industry: Insurance & Financial

Job Description
As a Lead Software Quality Engineer, you will join a multi-functional product team and implement test strategies to ensure product quality of a highly scalable complex cloud solution. Successful candidates have experience working within an Agile delivery model and can plan and execute tests that use the latest tools and automation frameworks. Qualified candidates will have a minimum of 8 years of experience in the Software Quality Engineering (or related) field, with experience creating tests within one or more automation frameworks. If you are ready to bring your skills to work alongside our team of engineers, we promise you’ll be working hands-on in the cloud with some of the newest technologies out there.

TARGET TECHNOLOGY STACK:
React, JavaScript/TypeScript, AWS Lambdas, GraphQL/REST API, AWS API Gateway, NodeJS, AWS DynamoDB

DEVELOPMENT TOOLS:
Docker, Linux on Windows, AzureDevOps for pipelines, GIT, VSCode, NPM Package Management, Jest, Cypress, Taurus, Postman

What you will do

• Work in a fast-paced, agile product environment with small, focused teams
• Mentor & grow quality engineers across the team, leading by example and insisting on high standards
• Design test cases and execute all types of testing (e.g. functional, integration, end-to-end)
• Produce test estimates for testing activities
• Conduct test case reviews and ensure requirements traceability and proper coverage
• Provide technical leadership, direction, and oversight of automated testing (functional framework, UX and Rest API interfaces, performance/load) and test data management
• Write code to perform automated tests
• Produce status reports and other quality metrics
• Assist team in determining appropriate quality goals and acceptance criteria

Your qualifications

• 5-10 years of functional testing background, including defining test strategy, test planning, test case design, and execution
• 2 or more years of professional coding experience in C#, Java, JavaScript, Python, or Ruby
• UI Test automation experience (e.g. Selenium, Protractor, Watir)
• Experience in all phases of the software and testing lifecycle, inception through deployment
• Project experience using an Agile methodology (e.g. Scrum)
• Experience with test management tools (e.g. TestRail, HP ALM, qTest)
• Experience working in cloud environments (AWS preferred)
• Performance / load testing experience preferred