Lead QA Tester

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

Job summary

Experis seeks a Tester Level 3 to lead QA across multiple workstreams, including Eligibility Enrollment and Case Management and Financial Management. You will align testing with the IES Program strategy and coordinate with subject matter experts and senior leadership to ensure business needs are met.

Responsibilities include overseeing QA artifacts, managing environments and data, and delivering clear reports to management and project teams. Strong automation and Jira/ALM experience is required.

Qualifications

• 2+ years in a leadership role as a Tester.
• 7+ years in QA across complex projects with multiple domains.
• Experience reporting to stakeholders and senior management.
• Experience coordinating with performance and security testing teams.

Responsibilities

• Oversee QA activities for multiple workstreams (EECM and FM).
• Ensure adherence to IES Program Level testing strategy and QA processes.
• Liaise with stakeholders to meet business needs.
• Review vendor deliverables to ensure proper testing alignment.
• Produce management and project status reports on testing efforts.
• Manage test environments, accounts, and data; lead blended teams.

Skills

Leadership

Quality Assurance

Test Automation

Selenium

Jira

HP ALM/Quality Center

JavaScript

Stakeholder Liaison

Test Reporting

Tools

Selenium

Jira

HP ALM/Quality Center

Job description

Designated Work Location

Pearl St, 4th Floor

Anticipated Duration of the Engagement: 27 months

Benefits

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.