Lead Quality Assurance Software Tester (RAFT)

Lead Quality Assurance Software Tester (RAFT)
100% REMOTE
12+ Months Contract to Hire

The Quality Engineer is a key contributor responsible for performing quality management practices to satisfy software acceptance criteria and/or test requirements using industry leading tools and techniques. Working to support an iterative Agile team, the Quality Engineer identifies and drives innovative testing and test automation approaches that turn ideas and concepts into reality.
Duties include: Identifying test scenarios and components, while planning and executing tests with a focus on test automation. This requires expertise with a variety of test automation methodologies, practices and procedures with a dedication to high-quality, and efficiency for maximum velocity. We are looking for someone who is outcome focused, loves challenges, can work collaboratively and who exemplifies the virtues of our talent model: Humble, Hungry and Smart.

Responsibilities:
Collaborate as a member of an Agile/Product Development team to define and implement testing and test automation strategies and techniques
Maintain and extend automated tests and test automation frameworks
Determine and manage required test data
Work collaboratively to optimize test coverage
Partner with DevOps teams to onboard automated tests to stay consistent with an infrastructure established to support continuous testing
Support team member knowledge-sharing and skills transfer, to increase team productivity

Qualifications:
7+ years of experience as a Quality Assurance Test Automation Engineer including 3+ years acting as a Lead QA with experience with RAFT.
Experience with different development and testing techniques (i.e. Test-Driven Development, Acceptance Test Driven
Development and Behavior Driven Development a plus
Experience with test automation design, development practices, frameworks, and related tools that support unit, integration, functional and non-functional test automation
Hands on experience with Selenium using Java
Ability to work with Agile methodologies in a fast pace environment required
Knowledge of cloud technology, DevOps and Jenkins preferred
Experience testing dynamic web pages (HTML5), relational database technology and XML/JSON desired
Experience testing REST services desired
Critical thinker and problem-solving skills
Team player with great time-management, interpersonal and communication skills

Skill sets:

Selenium
Java
QE
Test Automation Design
RAFT