QA Lead

The USGA is a leader in the global golf industry, whose purpose is to unify the game through programs like the World Handicap System, to showcase the best talent in the game through championships, to govern the game to promote fairness for all who play, and to advance the game and golf courses through innovation and science and programs that grow participation. 

Are you looking to join a dynamic team that works together to promote and conserve the true spirit of the game of golf?

What you can expect:

• • Participate in the design process to understand, analyze, and influence the application/system to be tested.
  • Identify the risks and appropriate test coverage to validate new and existing features, as well as develop test plans, cases, and regression testing strategies.
  • Identify efficient ways to test features, including automation.
  • Lead project testing activities, including planning, executing, communicating, tracking, and reporting.
  • Using Test Management tools, execute test cases, manually or in an automated fashion. Capture and analyze results, document issues, and prepare test reports.
  • Analyze and identify the issues found during testing, work with the QA team and/or the development teams to diagnose them. Present testing results and progress to the project team.
  • Understand the business aspects, as well as the ways the customers are using the system; and check if the system is performing as it should have been.
  • Assists with reviewing and remediating issues identified by cybersecurity penetration tests and vulnerability scans.
  • Assists Championship support digital team to reviewing defects impacting live events.
  • Keep current on latest industry developments around Quality, including skills, tools, and methodologies.
  • Contributes documents to knowledgebase.
   

What you bring to the USGA:

• • The ability to quickly assess risk and make decisions.
  • Ability to be hands-on in a fast-paced, ever-changing production environment.
  • Professional experience in quality assurance (3 years)
  • Deep, hands-on proven experience in delivering and supporting thorough QA testing processes.
  • Experience with testing automation using tools for testing and monitoring the functionality, performance, and impact of scripts across different browsers, operating systems, and devices such as Selenium, Python, Robot Framework.
  • Working knowledge of Security and Performance testing and experience working with Cybersecurity analysts to remediate vulnerabilities.
  • Testing across multiple platforms including web, mobile (IOS & Android) and tablet, in a cloud environment.
  • Attention to detail – ability to uncover issues and think through undocumented (Ad Hoc) use cases that can break the system.
  • Excellent customer focus and communication skills with focus on building trust within a multi-function team.
  • Ability to work on multiple projects at one time.
  • Strong time management and communication skills.
  Must be willing to work onsite a minimum of 3 days/week, no relocation services available.

About the USGA

The USGA is a nonprofit organization that celebrates, serves and advances the game of golf. Founded in 1894, we conduct many of golf’s premier professional and amateur championships, including the U.S. Open and U.S. Women’s Open. With The R&A, we govern the sport via a global set of playing, equipment, handicapping and amateur status rules. The USGA campus in Liberty Corner, New Jersey, is home to the Association’s Research and Test Center, where science and innovation are fueling a healthy and sustainable game for the future. The campus is also home to the USGA Golf Museum, where we honor the game by curating the world’s most comprehensive archive of golf artifacts. To learn more, visit usga.org.

The United States Golf Association is an Equal Opportunity Employer