Our client is seeking a QA Lead whose primary responsibility is to drive test automation, ensuring early detection of bugs and issues before the software reaches end-users, thereby maintaining the products quality and reliability.

Responsibilities :

The QA Lead is responsible for managing the overall system test strategy and functions for all products.

- Drive the software quality assurance life cycle within an Agile process in collaboration with the development teams

- Establish test strategies, and develop automated tests to ensure that the product releases meet the highest standards.

- Create and maintain testing progress, test coverage, and quality reports.

- Execute test cases and analyze the results to identify any bugs or issues.

- Creating, maintaining, executing scripts during system-level, regression and smoke testing in various environments.

- Troubleshoot issues and provide support to the development team during the testing and debugging process.

- Conduct post-release and post-implementation testing to ensure the software is functioning correctly.

- Work with cross-functional teams, including developers and product managers, to ensure quality throughout the software development lifecycle.

- Demonstrate strong leadership skills in understanding project goals, individual role operations, the delivery process, identify testing dependencies, highlight issues, and risks to project team

Requirements :

- Hands on experience with Python and Selenium

- Proven experience as a Quality Assurance Lead or similar role, with at least 6 years of experience testing web applications

- Experience leading a team and mentoring more junior members.

- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.

- Strong knowledge in QA test tools and frameworks especially Selenium

- Strong knowledge of QA methodologies and best practices.

- Ability to develop scalable and reusable automation test scripts and execute them in an Agile/Scrum-based development environment

- Experience documenting KPIs and metrics including quality and test coverage reports

- Good experience with both front end and API testing, both manual and automated

- Ability to document and troubleshoot errors and issues.

Bonus Points :

- Comfort in setting up a CI/CD environment with test setup integration knowledge

- Working with eCommerce applications, specifically those that use Stripe as a payment processing system