Lead QA Tester

ManpowerGroup; City of Albany (NY); On-site; USD 103,000 - 117,000; Full time

Job summary

ManpowerGroup is seeking a Lead QA Tester to oversee QA activities across multiple workstreams from a designated on-site location at Pearl St. This role requires leadership of QA teams and coordination with stakeholders to ensure testing aligns with business needs.

The ideal candidate will have 7+ years in QA leadership, strong experience in test planning, metrics, and defect lifecycle management, and hands-on automation with tools like Selenium and Jira. Engagement runs for 27 months.

Qualifications

• 2+ years in a leadership role as a tester.
• Level III with 7+ years on complex projects.
• 7+ years QA across multiple high-profile projects.
• 7+ years reporting to stakeholders and senior management.

Responsibilities

• Oversee QA activities for multiple workstreams (EECM, FM).
• Ensure adherence to the IES QA strategy, processes, artifacts and tools.
• Liaise with stakeholders to meet business needs.
• Review vendor deliverables for alignment with requirements.
• Produce management/testing status reports.
• Manage test environments, accounts and data.
• Coordinate blended State/vendor resources.
• Other duties as assigned.

Skills

Leadership

Stakeholder communication

QA leadership

QA governance

Test metrics

Test planning

Defect lifecycle

Meetings facilitation

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a technical field

Tools

Selenium

Jira

HP ALM/Quality Center

Job description

Lead QA Tester

Designated Work Location Pearl St, 4th Floor

Anticipated Duration of the Engagement: 27 months

Rate 85.00 Corp or 75.00 W/2 hourly with benefits.

Sub-vendor can only submit their employees and must be approved vendor.

Mandatory Qualifications:

• 2 or more years in a leadership role as a Tester

• Level III- More than seven (7) years of experience working on complex projects with

• More than seven (7) years of work experience in quality assurance, managing testing across multiple high-profile projects, with complex functional domains, within a matrix organization.

• More than seven (7) years of work experience reporting and presenting to stakeholders and senior management.

Desired Qualifications:

• More than seven (7) years of work experience developing testing products including test plans, test cases, automated test scripts and defect reporting documentation.

• Three (3) to five (5) years of work experience with automated testing tools such as Selenium.

• Three (3) to five (5) years of work experience with defect tracking and test planning tools such as Jira, Jira-related plug-ins or HP Application Lifecycle Management/Quality Center.

• Three (3) to five (5) years of work experience in java scripting or related programing languages within the context of developing automated test script solutions.

• Two (2) years’ work experience coordinating with, and liaising with, performance testing teams or security testing teams.

• Three (3) to five (5) years of work experience leading and facilitating meetings, workgroups, etc. Including supervising teams of quality analysts.

• Three (3) to five (5) years of work experience with creating reports and dashboards for test metrics using Jira or another tool.

• Three (3) to five (5) years of work experience managing the defect lifecycle including defect creation, monitoring and status reporting as well as retesting defect fixes.

Responsibilities:

• Working for the QA Lead, the Tester Level 3 will manage and oversee quality assurance activities for multiple workstreams including Eligibility Enrollment and Case Management (EECM) and Financial Management (FM).

• Manage adherence to the IES Program Level testing strategy, quality assurance processes, artifacts and tools. Manage quality assurance team and deliverables.

• Liaison with relevant stakeholders, including subject matter experts, users, executive teams, etc. to ensure that projects meet business needs.

• Oversee adherence to the IES Program Level testing strategy, quality assurance processes, artifacts and tools.

• Review deliverables from vendors to ensure system testing and delivery are in line with business needs, as described in the requirements.

• Produce reports for Management and Project teams regarding status of Testing Efforts.

• Manage test environments, test accounts and test data according to best practices.

• Manage blended teams of State and vendor resources.

• Other duties as assigned.

ManpowerGroup is committed to providing equal employment opportunities in a professional, high quality work environment. It is the policy of ManpowerGroup and all of its subsidiaries to recruit, train, promote, transfer, pay and take all employment actions without regard to an employee's race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, religion, age, disability, protected veteran status, or any other basis protected by applicable law.