Lead Software Engineer, Quality Assurance

Overview

At ACT, Your Work Makes a Difference

Education has power – a power that changes lives forever. It creates opportunities that lift up individuals, their families, and sparks societal change that echoes through generations to come. From our grassroots we have fought the good fight for equity in education, and we remain devoted to helping anyone who struggles to access that power. This is what matters to us and we must do better -- we’ve never been more sure of our purpose. 

 

ACT team members are part of an organization dedicated to a mission that has never been more important:  Helping people achieve education and workplace success.  Advancing that mission within our organization, by helping our team members achieve education and workplace success of their own, is core to our values. ACT values a diverse workplace and is committed to fostering an inclusive, equitable environment in which every team member has an opportunity to grow.

We want our team members to have the well-being and confidence they need to do their best work, in an environment where both they and ACT thrive.   To support this, our total rewards include company paid life insurance, medical, dental, vision, flexible health and dependent spending accounts, 401(k) retirement savings with company match, paid holidays, paid time off, and so much more.  You can find a comprehensive list of our benefits here.

 

We are seeking a Lead Software Engineer, Quality Assurance to help us fulfill that mission. 

 

The Lead Software Engineer in Quality Assurance upholds and continually improves ACT’s Software Quality Assurance and Engineering standards and processes. The role is responsible for ensuring the highest quality of our products by designing, developing, implementing, and supporting solutions to support the quality assurance and testing processes, especially in test automation. The Lead Software Engineer will have significant expertise with the tools, technologies, systems, strong knowledge of industry trends and will be forward thinking. This position will 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 ACT’s software Product suite and internal back-office systems. The Lead Software Engineer in Quality Assurance ensures QA and Test activities and deliverables are completed on-time and on-budget. This position will report and work closely with VP of Quality Assurance and Engineering to develop the technology strategic timeline for automation.

 

The finalist will be hired at the salary and level commensurate with their qualifications.  For this position, we anticipate offering an annual salary in the range of $108,750 to $135,000.  ACT manages salaries within the range based on relevant factors including, skills, experience, and internal equity. 

 

Location: This is a remote position, based in the United States.

Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S. without the need for visa sponsorship.

 

What you will be working on:

• Independently plan and execute ACT’s Software QAE Strategy within one or more scrum teams. Proactively own all testing activities related to Scrum team execution.
• Lead and mentor one or more Software Engineer-QAs and monitor/guide progress of tasks related to QAE Strategy as well as ACT’s Strategic Goals.
• Independently develop, automate and execute test plans to meet and increase automated testing coverage in our pipelines.
• Identify, document, triage, and resolve issues found during test execution.
• Report QA metrics and status to product and scrum teams.
• Ensure compliance for version control for automation scripts and other related artifacts.
• Propose and implement solutions related to test data management.
• Lead and actively participate in design/architectural discussions, user story grooming, sprint demos, and daily Scrums to help establish a Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) approach.
• Ensure compliance for version control for automation scripts and other related artifacts
• Assist in deployment verification activities.
• Monitor product reliability, consistency, and performance.
• Independently collaborate with Scrum team to support all testing activities.
• Recommend product, infrastructure, or design changes to ensure quality and performance standards.
• Initiative and lead conversations about tool selection, organizational standards, best practices and process improvements and make recommendations based on industry standards and understanding of ACT needs through test automation, Robotic Process Automation or AI.
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