Lead, Software Engineering QA

Kyndryl is a company that designs, builds, manages, and modernizes critical technology systems. They are seeking a Lead, Software Engineering Quality Assurance to ensure their software products meet high standards of quality, reliability, and performance while mentoring other QA Engineers and promoting best practices across the organization.

Responsibilities:

• Define test strategies, test specifications, test cases, and test plans based on design documentation, functional specifications, and high-level design documents
• Work closely with other engineering squads/tribes to develop new features and products
• Ensure that the implemented components are feature, integration, and system tested before being released to customers
• Automate test cases to build test suits for regression, scalability, and performance testing
• Analyze, track, and verify defects during the software development lifecycle
• Contribute to designing, developing, implementing, executing, and troubleshooting automated test tools, test frameworks, and test scripts for application and API testing
• Develop, execute, and maintain automation tests for acceptance, functional, and regression test cases for identified areas/modules/technology
• Accurately document and communicate issues to developers to facilitate elimination of problems and create efficient fixes
• Promote testing best practices and principles across the organization
• Lead quality engineering discussions and mentor other QA Engineers in debugging, planning, and domain expertise

Requirements:

• Minimum of 5+ years of experience testing complex software products for large enterprise customers in a fast-paced agile environment
• Deep understanding of the QA processes, standards, tools and technologies
• Experience with testing and successfully delivering complex features/products for web-based enterprise applications and automating UI, CLI, and API testing
• Practical knowledge in at least one or two open-source automation tools and frameworks
• Good understanding of the entire software development life cycle
• Proficient analytical and problem-solving skills
• Collaborative communication and team working skills
• Familiarity with test frameworks like Selenium, Protractor etc
• Use of scripting languages like Python, Perl, PowerShell, and Java script to create scripts rapidly that can integrate into the testing stage within a pipeline
• Use of Test-Driven Development (TDD), SDLC, and Agile software development practices
• Scale Agile Framework (SAFe) experience
• Azure DevOps experience
• Git experience
• Automation experience
• Code Release experience