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How much does a Software Test Lead make hourly in the United States? The average hourly wage for a Software Test Lead in the United States is $56 as of March 26, 2024, but the salary range typically falls between $52 and $58. Hourly rate can vary widely depending on many important factors, including education, certifications, additional skills, the number of years you have spent in your profession. With more online, real-time compensation data than any other website, Salary.com helps you determine your exact pay target.

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C4ISR Sr. Software Test Lead

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Software Test Engineer I, AIX

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Work alongside a test lead in a development team to conduct complex software testing activities including design and execution of software test plans and test cases to ensure they meet quality ...

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Workday Test Lead@ Palo Alto, CA (hybrid)

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only W2 contract Workday Test Lead@ Palo Alto, CA (hybrid) W2 contract MUST HAVE Workday Lead ... Strong understanding of software testing methodologies, tools, and best practices. * Experience ...

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We are looking for an experienced software test engineer to lead design and development of test campaigns to be used across our product line, for mission-critical customer programs. For this ...

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Audio Test Lead :: Fulltime

Cliecon Solutions Inc - Bellevue , WA

Audio Test Lead Location: Bellevue, WA Roles & Responsibilities: 1. Audi/Voice Test Strategy ... Experience with audio testing tools and software, such as Audio Precision, SoundCheck.

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Senior Software Test Automation Engineer

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Strategically and tactically lead the test team for test tool validation, test automation and software. * Analyze architecture and designs to identify test automation strategies to provide full test ...

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What does a Software Test Lead do?

Common responsibilities of a Software Test Lead

Assist teams with correcting the identified non-compliance issues to ensure that we maintain high quality and high availability production system and services by providing necessary guidance and coaching.

January 01, 2023

Provides strategic leadership related to specific applications and systems in the areas of budgeting, status updates, technical architecture, development practices, test and DevOps strategy, automation, and testing methodologies.

January 29, 2023

Development of automation/performance solutions that meet organization standards and implementation of reliable, reusable and maintainable automated regression suites and test harnesses.

February 06, 2023

Hands-on experience in the analysis, design and development of robust testing tools for scalable and secure distributed systems based on high-performance software.

February 07, 2023

Lead efforts to improve test quality and efficiency, including increasing code/functionality coverage and implementation of ongoing enhancements and expansion of the use of the automated test framework within ServiceNow to perform automated testing.

February 09, 2023

Review the current testing process and come up with suggestions to improve and update the processes to gain efficiency with a high quality output.

March 12, 2023

Understanding of Cloud computing services including Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).

April 05, 2023

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These charts show the average hourly wage (core compensation), as well as the average total hourly cash compensation for the job of Software Test Lead in the United States. The average hourly rate for Software Test Lead ranges from $52 to $58 with the average hourly pay of $56. The total hourly cash compensation, which includes base and short-term incentives, can vary anywhere from $55 to $60 with the average total hourly cash compensation of $58.

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