What are the responsibilities and job description for the Quality Assurance Lead position at Cervello Inc?
Cervello is looking for a Quality Assurance Lead to join our growing team. Qualified applicants have hands-on QA expertise, have demonstrated automated testing ability, and are able to take initiative and develop and evolve our client’s QA processes. The ideal candidate will be able to analyze the full technology stack across multiple products and help determine what to test, how to test various components and the best way to execute end to end testing of the platform.
The job responsibilities are as follows:
- Contribute to establishing and evolving formal QA processes, ensuring that the team is using industry-accepted best practices.
- Contribute to all aspects of quality assurance including establishing metrics, implementing best practices, and developing new tools and processes to ensure quality goals are met.
- Contribute to the development of an automated test framework, including hands-on development of test cases as needed.
- Act as key point of contact for all QA aspects of releases, providing QA services and coordinating QA resources internally and externally.
- Coordinate test creation with a cross functional team of product owners, architects, and full stack developers
- Develop and execute test cases, scripts, plans and procedures (manual and automated).
- Diagnose defects and track them from discovery to resolution.
- Partner with engineering teams to stay informed of new technologies being introduced and to ensure that system components are designed for testability.
- Respond to all requests from internal and client team members in a timely professional manner.
Desired skills and experience
- Bachelor's Degree
- 5+ years’ experience of Software Testing & Quality Assurance using an agile test methodology and agile testing tools (i.e. Jira/Xray).
- Demonstrated experience developing and executing test cases, scripts, plans and procedures to support various development methodologies
- Familiarity with full software development life cycle and test cycles (Unit, Regression, Functional, Systems, Stress & Scale, Smoke & Sanity)
- Understanding of multi-tier web application architecture and deployment
- Understanding of existing QA best practices and methodologies to design, implement and automate processes
- Experience coordinating with external / remote QA resources
- Prior success using a metrics-driven approach and closed-loop feedback to improve software deliverables and improve predictability and reliability of releases
- Detailed and effective written communication skills for documenting the features tested and bugs found
- Broad experience designing and maintaining automated tests for whitebox and blackbox testing
- Demonstrated ability to roll-up sleeves and work with team members in a hands-on capacity
- Hands on experience either developing or testing Salesforce.com technologies
Technology expertise:
- Automated testing technologies such as Selenium
- Front end testing frameworks: Jasmine, Mocha, Cucumber, etc
- Back end testing experience with SQL, Java, Salesforce Apex
- SnowFlake testing experience is a plus.
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