Test Automation LEad

360 IT Professionals; City of Albany (NY); On-site; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

360 IT Professionals is seeking a Test Automation Lead to oversee automation testing for a high-profile project in Albany, NY. The ideal candidate will have a Bachelor's degree in a related field and at least seven years of experience managing teams and projects.

This role requires expertise in automation frameworks, team leadership, and a focus on delivering high-quality results under pressure. Local candidates are preferred for immediate interview and placement.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university in computer science, mathematics, or engineering.
• Seven or more years of project planning/management experience.
• Minimum 3 consecutive years in leading the development of automation frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Automation Team, responsible for test automation.
• Perform analyses to align IT solutions with business needs.
• Manage costs, schedules, and quality of test automation deliverables.

Skills

Automation testing strategies

Automation framework development

Selenium

Java programming

SQL for data validation

Project management

Leadership

Analytical skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or engineering

Tools

Rational RFT

MS Project

MS Excel

Job description

360 IT Professionals is a California-based Minority Business Enterprise specializing in IT Consulting and Staffing.

Job Title: Test Automation Lead

Work Location: Albany, NY 12205

Duration: 06 months

The Test Automation Lead is responsible for test automation for the NY-SoH and will be working in a high intensity, deadline driven environment. They will be responsible for planning, designing, deploying, maintenance and troubleshooting through all layers of the Testing Development Life Cycle. The Test Automation Lead will work as part of the NY-SoH testing Teams and with the NYSOH management leadership, and be responsible for working with all application teams to facilitate the delivery needs of the program.

Minimum Job Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university in computer science, mathematics, or engineering or a mathematics intensive discipline.
• Seven or more years of project planning/management experience and people management experience.
• Experience working with business process test methodologies environment, demand for products and market competition.
• Minimum 3 consecutive and recent years in leading the development of automation framework and automation (functional) test scripts.
• Minimum 3 years of proven experience managing an On Shore test automation team of at least 10 test automation developers.
• Proven experience developing custom automation scripts in either Rational RFT or Selenium using Java.

Responsibilities

• Serves as the Automation Team Lead, responsible for Test Automation. Lead approximately 12 testers, negotiate scope, develop estimates, plans, monitoring metrics, and provide daily guidance to the team and the client. Provide daily metrics to the project leadership. Support the life cycle of the change requests.
• Performs complex analyses of business goals, objectives and needs of the general business environment to align information technology solutions with business initiatives for a complex account. Serves as a subject matter expert and the liaison between technical personnel and non-technical personnel. Plans and designs complex business processes and system modifications. Makes recommendations to improve and support business activities.
• Facilitates and coordinates all Test Automation project activities from inception through completion of entire systems development lifecycle of multiple projects; including estimating, scheduling, status tracking, reporting, and issue and risk mitigating responsibilities.
• Identifies appropriate resources and staffs projects. Organizes automation test team(s) members to ensure communication and understanding of deadlines, assignments and objectives. Acts as the point of contact to client's project management.
• Manages costs, schedules and quality by overseeing test automation deliverables. Ensures schedule and budget are met. Identifies need for change, determines course of action and revises as appropriate.
• Oversees the ongoing review of Automation test(s) status; identifies risks. Develops, recommends and implements risk mitigation solutions and implements as appropriate.
• Works in conjunction with team members and stakeholders to anticipate and manage changes to test project. Determines when additional resources are needed and implements same. Identifies or gathers information regarding possible solutions that may create additional, different or unique objectives or results.
• Manages client expectations and balances the needs of company and client to ensure satisfaction for relevant parties.

Essential Job Functions

• Determines automation testing strategies and guides the work of less experienced team members.
• Has vast knowledge of automation testing techniques to cover all possible corner cases for automation testing, verification and validation techniques.
• Has proven experience developing automation suite from scratch.
• Experience working with test tools, processes, approaches and techniques.
• Has proven experience in developing automation test scripts with Object Oriented programming.
• Hands-on working experience in writing SQL using joins for data validation from various data sources in both DB2 and Oracle.
• Hands‑on experience in developing automation scripts for a very complex and large multi portals web-based application built on JAVA with backend batch jobs and interfaces.
• Strong analytical skills and proven experience in analyzing and writing automation scripts for complex business rules and rule engines.
• Proven experience leading a large On Shore team of test automation developers.
• Experience working with productivity and methodology tools that increase project efficiency and effectiveness.
• Experience working with administrative processes.
• Strong working knowledge of MS Project.
• Strong working knowledge of MS Excel.
• Strong organizational skills.
• Strong creative, analytical and problem solving skills.
• Strong interpersonal and presentation skills for interacting with team members and clients.
• Skilled in estimating, planning, scheduling, monitoring and reporting.
• Good leadership and negotiation skills to manage testing phases.
• Ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously and switch between tasks quickly.
• Ability to work in and foster a team environment.
• Ability to manage large or multiple projects with changing priorities.
• Ability to deal with ambiguity and change.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university in computer science, mathematics, or engineering or a mathematics intensive discipline.

Additional Information

Local candidates preferred. Immediate interview and placement!