Position: QA Team Lead (Manual testing)
Company: Forte Group
Category: QA
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper

Forte Group is seeking a highly skilled QA Team Lead to manage our QA team.

**Project description **

Our client is a leading provider of healthcare for organizations moving toward a primary care-led, high-value clinical model. Their solution provides the tools, technology, operations, and staffing support needed for physicians to drive the highest quality clinical results across a population. Our client works with physician groups, independent practice associations, and health systems to improve quality, deliver a first-rate patient experience, and lower costs in the communities they serve. 

At Forte, we provide true value to them. We go above and beyond providing cutting-edge thought leadership and expert opinions on deployment patterns. We migrate services to a modernized infrastructure. A streamlined SDLC process ensures that the can deliver quickly and efficiently, without sacrificing quality. We also prioritize cost-effectiveness by lowering operational development costs. We also help define and implement a containerization strategy, improve logging and security, and optimize their infrastructure deployment strategy. 

**You are an Agile Team Member **

Job #1 is to be part of a self-organizing team – a team that solves complex challenges and builds working software. Being a good team member means you contribute to it’s success by: 

● Maintaining an attitude of commitment through outward display of willingness 
● Impressing responsibility on others by displaying ownership in tasks
● Being open to new ideas and encouraging innovative practices amongst peers
● Actively working on broadening or adding a skill
● Asking for assistance when problems become challenging 

**Requirements**
● **At least 5 years of experience in software quality assurance, with a minimum of 2 year of experience in a leadership role**
● **Upper-Intermediate / Advanced level of English **
● Proven experience with API and integration testing with Postman or similar tools
● Strong analytical skills and ability to understand multi-component systems
● Experience of testing complex integrated systems; understanding of how client-server applications work
● Experience with using Remote Machines and its maintenance
Understanding of QA processes, approaches, methodologies and ability to apply the knowledge into daily operation
● Experience producing test assets (requirements gathering, test cases, test scenarios)
● Experience with software testing (Functional, Integration, Regression, Integration, Smoke, User Acceptance Testing)
● Requirements analysis & testing skills
● Basic SQL knowledge
● Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
● Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

**Good to have**
● SOAP/REST API testing experience
● Experience with Test Case Management systems (qMetry, Zephyr, TestRail etc) 
● Experience with SalesForce 

**Responsibilities **
● Lead the QA team in developing and executing software testing strategies, plans and processes
● Help team members to meet professional challenges, advise on best approaches and facilitate knowledge sharing across the team
● Interview candidates, provide recommendations to hire right people into the team from both hard and soft skills perspective
● Work with stakeholders, ensure the team stays focused on and delivers against the expectations, adapting to changing requirements
● Align team with the other teams, identify and resolve impediments when necessary
● Drive the full cycle of product testing (functional, regression testing, integration, smoke, end-to-end, etc.) 
● Review and analyze project requirements and specifications
● Develop manual test scenarios and test suites, maintain test documentation
● Implement and execute tests at all planned levels
● Report over the manual testing results and possible risks
● Support the full cycle of defect tracking & management
● Testing and support during infrastructure updates
● Support new system releases by performing regression and smoke testing
● Contribute to project documentation & knowledge base maintenance
● Contribute to the continuous improvement of the development process 

**What’s in it for you**
● Experience working with colleagues locally and abroad
● Friendly team and enjoyable working environment
● Participation in professional training and meetups
● Fully paid by Forte 5 sick days during the working year
● Internal English courses provided by Forte Teacher

**About Forte Group**
We are a full-service custom software delivery partner headquartered in Chicago. For over 20 years, we’ve worked with engineering departments, business leaders, and technology providers in the Chicago area. We partner with organizations to build custom software solutions, evolve IT practices, and consistently achieve desired business outcomes.