Position: QA Team Lead on a medical project
Company: ITExpert
Category: QA
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper

Their main product is a platform for working with the federal Affordable Medicines Program in the United States. It connects pharmacies, the state, and clinics to provide affordable medicines for patients with limited financial means. 
There will be 24 people in the team.

**The company offers:** annual bonuses based on the success of the Company and the performance of a specialist, 30 PTO, trips to Europe for team buildings.

**Requirements**: team management experience, work in Scrum teams, and spoken English.

**Responsibilities:**
- Develop QA Processes and Procedures: The QA team lead will establish processes and procedures. This can include preparing documents that outline testing processes, generating use cases to ensure that testing captures the software or system’s functional requirements, and enacting test plans for new software products or updates to existing systems. The QA team lead also introduces and updates these processes in collaboration with their team and developers.
- Direct QA Teams: Manage the activities of QA team members, including scheduling and managing ongoing projects. They also conduct employee training and evaluation and may provide support during the hiring and onboarding process. QA team leads need to assess current testing needs and schedules and determine staffing needs to effectively conduct the testing. They also oversee team members’ work to ensure that they adhere to specifications.
- Identify Bugs and Issues: Play an active role in software testing, following the processes and procedures that they developed and testing new and updated systems for bugs and other issues. The QA team lead may support compatibility testing, develop and utilize software to capture performance data, and evaluate individual aspects of the software or system including user interfaces and functional requirements.
- Manage Testing Schedules: Develop, enact, and manage testing schedules, ensuring that the QA team meets expectations and deadlines. These schedules tend to include specific elements of the software or system and frequently need to be completed before developers and engineers can continue with the next phase of development. You will monitor team activities to ensure that they meet schedules, specifically when multiple projects are in process at once.
- Coordinate Bug Fixes with Development Teams: Coordinate bug fixes and software enhancements with development and engineering teams. The QA team lead will also resolve some of these issues on their own and conduct further testing to ensure stability and usability.