QA Lead and Tester

Location: HYBRID Albany, NY | Job ID: PRD_518

About the role

This role manages and oversees quality assurance activities for the Fair Hearings System and other program areas, working under the QA Lead.

Responsibilities

• Manage adherence to the program-level testing strategy, quality assurance processes, artifacts, and tools
• Manage quality assurance team and deliverables
• Liaison with relevant stakeholders, including subject matter experts, users, executive teams, etc., to ensure that projects meet business needs
• Review deliverables from vendors to ensure system testing and delivery are in line with business needs, as described in the requirements
• Produce reports to Management and Project teams regarding status of testing efforts
• Manage test environments, test accounts, and test data according to best practices
• Manage blended teams of State and vendor resources
• Other duties as assigned

Requirements

• More than seven (7) years of experience working on complex projects with 2 or more years in a leadership role
• More than seven (7) years of work experience in quality assurance, managing testing across multiple high-profile projects, with complex functional domains, within a matrix organization, while reporting and presenting to stakeholders and senior management
• A minimum of one year working in an Integrated Eligibility System Program in various workstreams including EECM in a Health and Human Service setting
• At least seven (7) years of work experience developing testing products including test plans, test cases, automated test scripts, and defect reporting documentation
• Three (3) to five (5) years of work experience with automated testing tools such as Selenium
• Three (3) to five (5) years of work experience with defect tracking and test planning tools such as Jira, Jira-related plug-ins, or HP Application Lifecycle Management/Quality Center
• Three (3) to five (5) years of work experience with Java scripting or related programming languages within the context of developing automated test script solutions
• Three (3) to five (5) years of work experience with creating reports and dashboards for test metrics using Jira or other tools

Skills

• testing
• management
• quality assurance
• deliverables
• projects
• jira