The QA architect will play a pivotal role in shaping the quality assurance strategy for projects by defining scopes, analyzing requirements, and estimating test efforts. The candidate will collaborate with clients, development teams, and product teams to ensure that project objectives are met. The responsibilities include reviewing test plans and documentation, optimizing frameworks, exploring new technologies, and providing automation solutions. Additionally, the candidate will lead efforts in adopting new tools, enhance existing processes, and support the recruitment and development of QA staff.
Responsibilities:
- Actively contribute to defining project scopes, analyzing requirements, and estimating test efforts. Collaborate with clients, development teams, and product teams to clarify requirements and ensure clear goals
- Review test plans, traceability matrices, and other planning/implementation documents to ensure alignment with defined objectives
- Collaborate with different departments to provide solutions for infrastructure, optimize existing frameworks, and introduce new processes to meet or exceed application usage/load requirements
- Work with clients to evaluate and implement new technologies, offering strategies for leveraging new opportunities
- Collaborate with leads to review and evaluate test strategies and technologies across projects
- Formulate QA standards and best practices
- Review and improve the use of tools like JMeter and Postman. Explore and evaluate new testing tools and trends in QA architecture, processes, IoT, cloud, and AI, creating proof of concepts (POCs) as needed
- Identify relevant certifications and training that could benefit the QA team
- Explore security and compliance aspects, conduct static code analysis from a QA perspective
- Analyze new and existing projects to recommend suitable automation solutions. Design and implement automation solutions for backend infrastructure and mobile applications using tools such as Appium
- Build and enhance testing frameworks using tools like Cypress, Katalon, Java with Selenium, Python with Selenium, etc. Explore cloud services for automating QA tasks
- Assist in recruiting new staff, conducting interviews, and evaluating potential candidates. Mentor resources by identifying upskilling needs, planning, and providing supervision in training and implementing automation solutions
- Review work, identify gaps, and develop strategies for improving resource efficiency and effectiveness
- Act as a reference for the development and client teams in assessing test coverage, automation, integration, and security, and in making recommendations
Technical Qualifications:
- Experience in functional testing of applications, including features, services, and user interfaces
- Experience in test automation using tools like Selenium or Cypress
- Experience in creating maintainable and reusable automated test suites
- Experience leading and mentoring a team of QA Engineers
- Experience communicating effectively with clients
- Understanding of Test-Driven Development (TDD) principles
- Understanding of software development lifecycle (SDLC) and best practices
- Understanding of Agile and Waterfall methodologies
- Understanding of user interface (UI) design principles
- Strong knowledge of software quality assurance (QA) best practices and methodologies
- Familiarity with specific defect management systems like Jira or Bugzilla
Personal Skills:
- Ability to communicate technical aspects to individuals with non-IT backgrounds
- Ability to act as a liaison between QA and development teams
- Ability to ensure that solutions developed by technical teams meet business needs
- Ability to offer alternative approaches to achieve client goals
- Ability to analyze complex situations and manage variables to achieve optimal solutions
- Ability to act on provided information or obtain necessary information to make quick and effective project implementation decisions
- Ability to lead by example
- Ability to define and prioritize short-term and long-term objectives for teams and make necessary adjustments under changing circumstances
Education and Work Experience:
- A bachelor’s degree from an accredited university with an emphasis in one of the following disciplines: IS Management, Computer Science, or Business Administration.
- The individual should have over 14 years of relevant experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
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What We Do
Creative Capsule was founded in 2003 in Kansas City and since then has grown into a team of more than 200 motivated software professionals in Overland Park Kansas, Zürich Switzerland, and Goa India. Our founders continue to be involved in day-to-day operations, bringing an overriding customer focus and a dedication to technical excellence. Many of our best clients are rapidly evolving SaaS and software startup companies and life sciences companies who share our passion for innovation.
Creative Capsule builds lasting development relationships. We create highly skilled and effective software teams that integrate seamlessly with our clients’ organizations. We do not deliver one-off projects. Instead, we work to understand each client’s unique business needs and culture, and then construct cohesive teams that empower our partners and strengthen their delivery capabilities.
Creative Capsule helps clients to transform their software delivery capacity. For each client, we build a dedicated development group that works hand-in-hand with their organization, creating a single virtual team. We ensure a close fit with each client by selecting team members that have technical and personal attributes that resonate with the client’s needs and culture. Each of our teams spans continents, providing an optimized balance of responsive local presence and cost-effective offshore resources, while operating as a single innovative and agile force that shares risks and rewards.
