Position: Lead QA Engineer - Automation
Company: DataMola
Category: QA Automation
Experience required: 3y
English level: upper

Position Summary: 
Problem solver, results driven, creative, hands-on, enthusiastic – we are seeking a Lead QA Automation engineer that has these characteristics.  Customer is a software company that uses Agile and SCRUM methodologies to develop and deliver our product.  The successful candidate will need to lead and manage a team of technical automation engineers in delivering a high-quality software product and on time. Also maintain automated test scripts to perform functional, regression and load testing as well as setting up and maintaining a lab environment for testing ETL/data integrations to other third-party applications.  

Essential Duties & Responsibilities: 
•	Collaborating with Product and Development Teams to analyze and understand application requirements, identifying potential gaps in the same.
•	Lead, coach, and mentor a team of Automation Engineers to deliver high-quality Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions
•	Executing various levels and types of testing such as smoke, functional, compatibility, and regression tests using automated scripts.
•	Identifying, researching, and documenting bugs; suggesting possible resolutions and root causes
•	Contributing to process improvements efforts related to all aspects of Software Quality Assurance in an effort to reduce defects and quality issues
•	Manage multi-shore and multi-disciplinary QA teams in the US and other offshore locations 
•	Evaluate test results against expected results, implement improvements to processes, and recommend alternative testing as needed
•	Maintain and report automation test metrics for all active projects to include code coverage, function coverage, test case coverage
•	Engage with key leaders to drive the vision and overall priorities to deliver quality products
•	Communicate and translate vision/strategy to the team executing on functional and business goals for the team


Required Experience & Skillset:
•	Excellent analytical, problem solving, time management skills with good knowledge of tools and techniques for anticipating, recognizing and resolving technical problems
•	Ability to prioritize work tasks in a fast paced dynamic environment
•	Ability to demonstrate initiative, adaptability, and to think beyond “outside of the box"
•	Service orientation and ability to work in a team and collaborative environment
•	Excellent written and verbal communication skills
•	Excellent working knowledge of SQL and RDBMS such as MySQL, MS SQL Server, Oracle, etc.
•	Ability to evaluate and implement testing tools as per the organization needs.
•	Experience on building and running complex test environments
•	2+  years of people management and testing experience as a Automation lead or Architect, managing offshore/multi-shore automation teams with demonstrated experience building and motivating teams
•	5+ years of hands on enterprise software QA engineering, analysis, and testing experience 
•	5+ years of hands on experience in designing automation framework for web based, enterprise software applications. 
•	Successfully released 3+ enterprise software suite releases in ERP, CRM, or comparable business software applications 
•	Experience in SOAP/REST web services (XML / JSON) testing and automation
•	Proven expertise and success with QA automation tools, both commercial and open source to include Mercury QuickTest Pro, LoadRunner, Selenium, Jmeter, or Watir for example 
•	Proven success with regression, performance, concurrency, and scalability testing methodologies 
•	Ability to provide hands-on leadership, and work flexible hours some evenings and weekends
•	Should have experience in CI tools like Rundeck/Jenkins
•	Ability to implement and configure code coverage tools like Cobertura, JaCoCo, OpenClover etc
•	Enterprise Software as a Service (SaaS) QA experience strongly desired