What are the responsibilities and job description for the Technical QA Lead position at Global Intellectuals?
Job Description
Description:
The Technical QA Lead helps establish strong quality gates and helps provide and maintain a high-quality product through executing various test strategies. This candidate will be responsible for Quality Assurance across web, API and database platforms. This role will assist with creating test plans, functional testing, load testing, track defects, and report results. This role will also function as a quality liaison between business and development teams and help establish best practices around testing and triaging issues. The ideal candidate should have experience troubleshooting and testing API driven and database applications.
Responsibilities:
- Develop test plans, cases, scenarios, and scripts to thoroughly test internal & external application changes and new products.
- Develops quality assurance standards.
- Analyze and troubleshoot erroneous results, determine the root causes, and suggest a solution.
- Conduct manual regression testing of applications on a scheduled basis to ensure product integrity.
- Defines and tracks quality assurance metrics such as defect densities and open defect counts.
- Provide post-release support related to defect analysis, scalability, and workflow.
- Communicate directly with management and the development team regarding test objectives, requirements, and results.
- Participate in other testing and process improvement projects, as needed. Other duties as assigned.
- Behaves in a way that consistently demonstrates commitment to Cotiviti values.
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent.
- 2 years leading testing and reporting quality metrics to stakeholders and senior leadership.
- 5 years of significant Quality Assurance background, including functional, integration, and regression testing.
- Significant experience with industry leading Quality Assurance related tools.
- Experience with Postman, SoapUI or a similar API testing tool is required.
- Experience with SQL and Unix is required.
- Scrum Agile development or Scaled Agile Framework desired.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to work well independently and in a team environment.
- Ability to handle multiple tasks, prioritize and meet deadlines.
- Experience in the following areas valued:
- A background in the healthcare industry
- Knowledge of RDBMS fundamentals