QA Lead

                                                                                                     QA LEAD

#ZCC  is currently hiring a:

Key Roles & Responsibilities

• Experience in automation testing

• Experience in the financial services industry:  insurance (mandatory)

• Test strategy and planning, including recommendation of staffing plans and estimation of costs

• Provide strategic QA guidance and lead testing for transformational initiatives and / or application portfolios

• Remove impediments faced by project team members, utilizing agile methodology tools where applicable (e.g., scrum of scrum, retrospectives, etc.)

• Test management, communication, metrics, and status reporting, including identification of risks and escalation of issues to the project team or ZNA retained IT test lead / project managers

• Obtain approval from for all deliverables as per the defined acceptance criteria

• Prepare test summary reports for each software release targeted for production

• Coordinate work with onshore team

• Coordinate testing updates with ZNA retained IT Test Leads, Project Managers, Scrum Masters and Test Analyst(s) as needed to ensure alignment across stakeholders

• Defect Management approach and execution, including logging and reporting of defects and adherence to Defect Management by all project / scrum team members (including those outside of test team)

• Develop and coordinate the transition from project to release / prod support and ensure hand-offs are handled properly for testing, proper KT, roles / responsibilities, quality, etc.

• Drive development of automation test scripts based on test strategy and existing frameworks

• Apply knowledge in testing tools and understanding of automation and performance testing concepts

• As needed, perform requirements analysis, author functional test cases, and execute test cases while understanding the testable software requirements

• Management and coaching of direct reports

Key Experience Needed

• Five + years of experience in automation testing (creating test plans/test cases/test data strategy)

• Four + years of people management and leading of direct reports

• Four + years of experience with agile project delivery methodology (i.e., scrum)

• Four + years of experience with project and test management tools (e.g., Jira, Application Management Lifecycle (ALM), Azure DevOps, PICT, etc.)

• Advanced English

• Hybrid position, available only to residents of Mexico City, Guadalajara, and the State of Mexic

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