Lead Software Engineer

ACT Education; Iowa (LA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work after 1 year

Job summary

ACT Education seeks a Lead Software Engineer in Quality Assurance to design, implement, and support a scalable test automation framework across the software product suite and back-office systems. You will lead cross-functional teams, conduct code reviews, and own CI/CD testing efforts in a Scrum/SAFe environment.

Responsibilities include mentoring engineers, participating in architecture discussions, and driving automation data management and reporting.

Qualifications

• 7+ years progressive IT experience with coding in Java or Python.
• Experience with test automation tools and frameworks.
• Strong knowledge of Python and SQL databases (MongoDB, PostgreSQL).
• Proven ability to design scalable QA automation solutions.
• Experience in Agile/SAFe software development environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead the QA automation framework design, development and maintenance.
• Drive cross-functional teams and contractors to improve testing efficiency.
• Participate in design reviews, grooming, sprints and daily scrums in a BD/BDT approach.
• Mentor engineers and guide automation strategy across product suite.

Skills

QA leadership

Java/Python

Automation testing

SAFe Agile

Mentoring

Automation framework

Education

Bachelor's in CS/Software Dev

Tools

TOSCA

QTest

Postman/REST API

Jenkins

Eclipse/IntelliJ

JMeter/LoadRunner

Splunk

MongoDB

PostgreSQL

Git

Jira/Rally

Selenium

Job description

Lead Software Engineer in Quality Assurance

Responsible for ensuring the highest quality products by designing developing implementing and supporting solutions to support the quality assurance and testing processes especially in test automation Lead the work of cross functional teams and contractors to drive efficiencies and foster a growth mindset through building maintaining and enhancing a test automation framework that will be used across ACTs software Product suite and internal back office systems Independently design flexible scalable solutions utilizing skills in data structures algorithms and object oriented programming Independently build customize deploy and manage software in a continuous integration environment including automated build test and deployment infrastructure Proactively monitor product scalability reliability consistency and performance and own all activities related to Scrum team execution including anticipating and proactively planning work across sprints Conduct code reviews and ensure correct implementation of automation framework and blueprint; identify document triage and resolve issues Actively participate in design architectural discussions grooming user stories sprint demos and daily scrums in BDD approach and recommend changes Contribute to tool selection via conducting proof of concepts and utilities related to test automation Robotic Process Automation or AI organizational standards best practices and process improvements including with Software Development Lifecycle and test processes Propose and implement solutions for test data management; build solutions around data and reports testing; ensure compliance for automation scripts and related artifacts; and report QA metrics Mentor other Engineers to implement test automation framework Work closely with VP of QAE to develop strategic timeline for automation Telecommutingremote employment allowed after one year of employment at Iowa City headquarters

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelors degree or equivalent in Computer Science Software Development Information Systems or closely related field with seven years of progressive IT experience that includes coding in JAVA or Python
• TOSCA QTest
• API test automation tools using Postman or RestAPI
• CICD automation using Jenskins
• IDE like Eclipse or IntelliJ
• performance and load testing using tools such as Jmeter Redline or LoadRunner
• Data analysis tools such as Splunk
• database platforms such as MongoDB or Postgressql
• Version Control tools such as GIT
• Application Lifecycle Management tools such as Jira or Rally
• working in an Agile development environment and experience with automation testing of UI features using Selenium developing Python scripts for testing using IDEs and defining automation test strategy approach and planning for Agile sprints and as well as demonstrated ability to develop software solutions to use JSON and XML to mentor and coach team and to work as part of a Scrum team following SAFe Agile practices
• strong understanding of Python
• demonstrated relational and no SQL database skills MongoDB Raven
• and strong knowledge of version control Git

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