Lead Quality Engineer Modern Test Automation & AI

The IT Quality Tech Lead Analyst is a mid-level position responsible for hands- on implementation of AI driven test automation inclusive of CICD and modern techniques in testing. The overall objective of this role is to ensure quality delivery of applications through AI driven functional and automation testing.
Responsibilities:

• Ensure essential procedures are followed and help define operating standards and processes
• Has the ability to operate with a limited level of direct supervision.
• Experience in AI driven test automation
• Takes ownership of tasks assigned and reports to senior management appropriately at regular agreed intervals.
• Build and enhance scalable test automation frameworks that support efficient test execution and maintenance.
• Write , execute and run manual/automated test cases regularly and analyze test results, logging any defects and providing detailed reports.
• Integrate automated tests within the CI/CD pipeline ensuring that tests run continuously with each deployment.
• Experience in API/ database testing.
• Work closely with development, manual QA, and product teams to understand requirements, features, and testing needs in Agile environments.
• Utilize tools like JIRA to identify, log and prioritize defects; collaborate with developers to resolve issues promptly.
• Perform manual testing for areas not covered by automation, including exploratory and regression testing.
• Create and manage test data and ensure proper configuration of test environments for effective test execution.
• Develop test scripts and/or test frameworks using typescript/JavaScript to execute RESTful API calls and SQL queries for test data setup/teardown and results validation.
• Document automated tests, processes, and test results, while adhering to QA best practices and promoting quality across the development cycle.
• Works collaboratively across product lines and department boundaries to enable functional testing and work closely with the engineering team to help build out the tooling and automation.
• Deeply understands test methodologies - such as agile;  functional, integration and  regression testing
• Manage and run the QA cycle as part of the agile development cycle and work towards taking the sprints to closure.
• Build reliable automated test suites that run as part of the project CI and/or nightly build system.
• Have extensive experience in test automation and perform functional, test automation, regression and end-end testing. Test automation is essential for this role.
• Is disciplined, with an eye for detail, and have excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Triage efficiently, prioritizing issues by the highest impact and scope. You know how to get the right bugs fixed
• Is comfortable in a collaborative, agile, and distributed development environment.

Qualifications:

• You have 9-13 years of relevant testing experience with proficiency in UI, API & Responsive/Mobile testing
• Highly experienced in one of the following: Cypress automation (javascript) or Selenium with, BDD tools like Cucumber
• Experience in creating test suites,  test suite execution and test reporting
• Understanding of financial market concepts is essential. Knowledge of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) and QA methodologies, Quality Process, relevant operating systems, languages and database tools, defect tracking systems, including change management, automation tools

Education:

• Bachelor’s University degree, Master’s degree preferred

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