Software Quality Assurance Lead

As a Quality Assurance Engineer Lead, you'll play a crucial role in overseeing the reliability, functionality, and quality of our warehouse execution software. You'll collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including developers, product managers, and release managers, to design and implement comprehensive test strategies, execute test cases, and identify software defects. Your primary goal will be to guarantee a seamless and efficient warehouse execution system through rigorous testing and quality assurance processes.

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General description

As a Quality Assurance Engineer Lead, you'll play a crucial role in overseeing the reliability, functionality, and quality of our warehouse execution software. You'll collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including developers, product managers, and release managers, to design and implement comprehensive test strategies, execute test cases, and identify software defects. Your primary goal will be to guarantee a seamless and efficient warehouse execution system through rigorous testing and quality assurance processes.

They will work closely with the release manager and software engineers to develop and debug test conditions for the product.  A successful candidate will support the product through manual testing and development of automated tests to catch bugs and resolve them. The candidate will also work with support engineers to capture defects and identify root cause and be able to pass steps and descriptions to fix themselves or work with the product team to resolve.  The candidate will oversee the quality process in both automated and manual testing as well as help triage bugs for development.

About FulfillX by Kardex

FulfillX is an industry-leading and modular software solution that manages material flow and warehouse management processes faster and more efficiently. FulfillX’s modular capabilities allow users to quickly integrate and deploy software that improve operational processes.

Job Purpose

Support the development, testing and deployment of the FulfillX software product

Identify, report, and track software defects using tools such as Azure Devops or Jira

Plan tests to acceptance criteria from functional requirements and manually execute test scenarios to pass them

Mentor Junior QA members and assist with debugging

Triage bugs and help debug if they are stuck to figure out the bugs validity

Write and generate automate tests for functional, regression, integration and performance testing

Create and maintain documentation including test cases, test data, and reports to ensure traceability and transparency

Strong attention to detail and organizational skills

Travel domestically and possibility internationally, total travel estimate is 20%

Support the startup of the new company.

Job Requirements

Training/Education:

Business or technical degree in Computer Science, software engineering, or a similar field is preferred

Excellent communication skills

Professional Experience:

3+ years’ of software testing

2+ year of development

Experience with SQL, SOAP, API, XML, REST

Experience with API integration

Experience with WMS/WES software platforms

Proven portfolio of projects

Other Experiences:

Experience supporting and developing Warehouse control systems is preferred

Experience with C#, React, Java, or Selenium preferred

Experience with coordinating and collaborating with cross functional teams through multiple pieces of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)

Detailed understanding of logistics and IT processes

Leadership

• Motivation to be a key member in setting up a new business (startup environment)
• Entrepreneurial thinking and acting
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to establish effective working relationships across the boundaries and cultures
• Self-driven, result oriented with positive outlook to success
• Advanced trouble-shooting ability – problem solving mentality
• Clear focus on high quality and ensuring all the customers' needs are met

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