QA Test Lead

T-Net British Columbia; Vancouver; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology firm in Vancouver is seeking a QA Test Lead to oversee the testing strategy for solutions, including Oracle XStore and SAP. The role involves leading teams, educating on testing methodologies, and collaborating with stakeholders. The ideal candidate has a Computer Science degree and 8+ years of experience in QA and Test Management. Strong proficiency in JIRA and excellent communication skills are required.

Qualifications

• 8+ years experience acting as Test Manager in a similar capacity.
• Strong working knowledge of QA and Test Automation standards.
• Experience with building automation-driven test and release systems.

Responsibilities

• Own and drive test strategy for applications and services.
• Lead a core team on test execution and reporting.
• Educate group on methodologies for testing and release engineering.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to establish testing prerequisites.

Skills

Strong proficiency in JIRA tools

Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Solid interpersonal skills

Ability to work in a fast-paced environment

Education

Bachelor of Computer Science or Computer Engineering

Tools

JIRA

Test automation frameworks

Job description

As QA Test Lead, you will be responsible for leading a cross-discipline "Test" group, consisting of multiple teams each with skills in Functional and Technical testing, performance and stability testing, and manual testing. This position maintains and communicates test processes to ensure the group achieves its goal - ensuring the quality of the solution produced by Vendor Teams.

You are expected to: set your group's direction on test strategies - both manual and automated; ensure that these test strategies are well defined; ensure that the repository of test scripts and test cases is maintained, and define and monitor performance indicators to ensure the group delivers.

In order to fulfill the above goals, you must interface directly with: Vendor Leads; Product Owners, Business Lead and Infrastructure teams. To be successful, you must: be highly reliable, be well organized, share information well, and be persuasive and effective when driving change.

What you will be doing:

• Own and drive test strategy, approach, and execution for the applications and services of the POS Solution that include Oracle XStore and SAP.
• Lead a core team of Leads on test execution, test case/strategy management and reporting to enable stakeholders to make data-driven decisions for successful product releases.
• Educate the group on effective methodologies for manual testing, automated testing, regression testing and confident release engineering models. Provide technical guidance, direction, coaching, mentoring to members and oversee the delivery of commitments.
• Establish standards and guidelines, and ensure members of the group follow them.
• Report on the performance of the team to the Project Manager.
• Collaborate with Product Owners, Business Analysts and Vendor Teams to ensure that necessary testing prerequisites are provided to the test team and that we are focusing our efforts in the areas of the highest priority.
• Collaborate with the Test Group Leads, soliciting test requirements, deciding on test strategy (eg manual vs automation), and architecting automation solutions as appropriate.
• Collaborate with the agile development teams to enable incremental testing and verification of new features.
• Additional duties as assigned

What you need to have:

• Bachelor of Computer Science or Computer Engineering degree.
• 8+ years experience in the high technology industry working acting as Test Manager in a similar capacity.
• Strong proficiency in JIRA tools for project management, requirements and testing.
• Strong working knowledge of industry standards and best practices for QA and Test Automation. Deep expertise in manual and automated test planning and execution.
• Excellent knowledge of tools commonly used to facilitate software QA with demonstrated ability to deploy these tools in the past.
• Experience with building automation-driven test and release systems.
• Familiarity with version control, bug tracking, and CI/CD systems.
• Solid experience with at least one test automation framework
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills. The position requires persuasiveness and communication fluency.
• Solid interpersonal skills are required to function appropriately in a team environment
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with frequent software releases assisted by automation