Our Client seeking an experienced DevOps & Quality Assurance Section Lead to join their Technology Architecture & Policy team. In this critical role, you will collaborate closely with operations and development throughout the entire development lifecycle, from initial design to production support.
The incumbent will play a pivotal role in establishing a comprehensive strategy for Digital Quality Assurance and will oversee the deliverables of the Quality Assurance team. Additionally, you will provide expert technical guidance in the planning, implementation, and efficiency enhancement of all QA activities.
Responsibilities:
As the DevOps & Quality Assurance Section Lead, you will be responsible for:
- Establishing a comprehensive strategy for DevOps & Digital Quality Assurance, aligning with organizational goals and objectives.
- Developing, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating QA methodologies and standards to drive continuous improvement of QA processes.
- Creating standardized business-specific quality measurement frameworks and tracking progress against key metrics to ensure consistent quality benchmarks.
- Providing expert consultation on enhancing test efficiency and reducing cycle time through the implementation of standardized test cases, test data, automation, and code/test coverage analysis.
- Offering guidance to the test team in designing and implementing testing tasks essential for meeting project deliverables, ensuring day-to-day operations run smoothly.
- Generating metrics and reports to capture test progress for projects and releases, providing valuable insights for decision-making.
- Managing, coaching, and mentoring the team, setting performance targets, and evaluating delivery against established benchmarks.
- Enforcing and upholding corporate and departmental standards, policies, and guidelines within the team to maintain high levels of quality and compliance.
- Tracking QA performance and reporting on quality-related outcomes and activities to the Senior Manager of Digital Governance and Quality Assurance team.
- Collaborating closely with the DevOps team to establish synergies between DevOps and Digital Quality Assurance strategies, ensuring seamless integration and alignment.
- Developing comprehensive test strategies for DevOps, promoting automated testing across the test lifecycle, advocating for risk-based testing approaches, and facilitating the reuse of test scripts for optimal efficiency.
Skills & Experience:
- Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related IT discipline.
- Min 8+ years digital quality assurance experience.
- You should have strong knowledge of commonly used concepts and tools related to software testing, and quality standards and procedures.
- Experience as a QA Lead on large scale projects
- You should have strong initiative, consensus-building, and ability to collaborate directly and build strong relationships with variety of internal and external stakeholders.
- Certified Manager of Software Quality (CMSQ), Certified Software Quality Analyst: (CSQA), Certified Software Testing Professional (CSTP)
- Experience in SDLC methodologies such as Agile & waterfall and process management.
- Strong Test Analyst skills including writing high-quality test specifications (plans, cases, script, and data) on accurate business requirement analysis.
- Experience in troubleshooting test environments, diagnosing and resolving issues prior to format execution.
- Certification in software Quality Assurance & Cloud (AWS preferred) is a plus.
- Able to perform root cause analysis of issues to assist in determining the source of problems.
- Experience with test automation tools such as Silk Test, Selenium, Tricentis is a plus.
- Experience in using tools like JIRA and Confluence to report, categorise and track issues.
- You should be able to communicate effectively in verbal and written mediums with internal and external stakeholders.
- You should be able to work independently as a strong self-starter, as well as collaborate with other teams.
