Quality Assurance Testing - Sr - Texas

Key Responsibilities:

Team Leadership & Management:

• Lead and manage a team of Quality Assurance engineers, providing mentorship, technical guidance, and performance reviews.
• Assign tasks, set priorities, and ensure the timely execution of testing activities.
• Foster a culture of quality, continuous learning, and collaboration within the QA team.

Test Planning & Strategy:

• Define and drive the overall test strategy and test plans for each release, ensuring comprehensive test coverage and timely execution.
• Collaborate with product managers, developers, and business stakeholders to understand product requirements and design test cases that ensure high product quality.

Manual & Automated Testing:

• Oversee both manual and automated testing efforts, ensuring proper test case creation, execution, and defect tracking.
• Lead the creation and maintenance of automated test scripts using industry-standard testing tools and frameworks (e.g., Selenium, Cypress, JUnit).
• Manage and execute regression, functional, integration, system, and user acceptance tests to ensure software integrity.

Defect Management & Issue Resolution:

• Identify, track, and report defects, collaborating with development teams to resolve issues promptly and efficiently.
• Drive defect triage sessions to prioritize and ensure timely resolution of high-impact issues.
• Ensure defects are clearly documented, with detailed steps to reproduce, expected vs. actual behavior, and relevant logs.

Continuous Improvement:

• Identify areas of improvement in testing processes and workflows, ensuring consistent quality and performance.
• Proactively recommend and implement process improvements to increase testing efficiency, automation coverage, and test effectiveness.

Collaboration & Communication:

• Communicate testing progress, risks, and challenges to relevant stakeholders, providing regular updates on the status of testing efforts and defect resolution.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure a shared understanding of quality goals and expectations.
• Organize and lead sprint reviews, retrospectives, and testing-related meetings.

Test Documentation & Reporting:

• Maintain comprehensive and up-to-date test documentation, including test cases, test plans, and test reports.
• Track key quality metrics and deliver test results in a clear, concise format for stakeholders, ensuring full visibility into product quality.

Risk Management:

• Assess product risk areas, potential impact, and severity of defects and work with the team to address and mitigate risks.
• Actively identify gaps in testing coverage and work with the development team to address these areas before release.

Qualifications:

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent work experience).
• Experience:
  • 5+ years of experience in Quality Assurance testing, with at least 2 years in a leadership or management position.
  • Proven experience in both manual and automated testing, with expertise in writing test cases, executing tests, and tracking defects.
  • Familiarity with a variety of testing techniques, including functional, regression, integration, system, and performance testing.
  • Proficient in test automation tools such as Selenium, Cypress, JUnit, TestNG, or similar frameworks.
  • Experience with version control systems (e.g., Git) and continuous integration/deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.
  • Experience with bug tracking tools (e.g., JIRA, Bugzilla, TestRail).
• Leadership & Soft Skills:
  • Proven leadership experience managing and mentoring QA teams, setting clear goals, and driving high performance.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to troubleshoot and address complex issues.
  • Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to clearly convey technical issues to non-technical stakeholders.
  • Strong attention to detail, organizational skills, and the ability to prioritize tasks effectively.
• Technical Skills:
  • Solid understanding of Agile and Scrum methodologies.
  • Familiarity with performance testing tools such as JMeter or LoadRunner is a plus.
  • Experience with mobile application testing is a plus.
  • Knowledge of security testing or experience working with security-foc