Quality Assurance Lead

About the role

Our goal is to solve problems and deliver results for our clients. At Cloud and Things, you can be a part of transforming the public sector’s IT environment. Our team is on the forefront of helping to solve the government's most complex IT challenges. If you are seeking a role that offers the opportunity to work on rewarding projects, consider a career with Cloud and Things. This is an exempt position. Location: Albany, NY – Hybrid. Duration: 30 Months. Schedule: Full Time.

Responsibilities

• Manage and oversee quality assurance activities across complex program areas and workstreams.
• Lead adherence to program-level testing strategies, quality assurance processes, artifacts, standards, and tools.
• Manage quality assurance teams and oversee testing deliverables.
• Coordinate with subject matter experts, users, project teams, executive stakeholders, and other business partners to ensure testing aligns with business needs.
• Review testing deliverables to ensure system testing and delivery align with documented requirements.
• Produce testing status reports, metrics, and updates for management and project teams.
• Manage test environments, test accounts, and test data in accordance with testing best practices.
• Oversee blended teams consisting of internal and external resources.
• Manage testing activities across multiple high-profile projects and complex functional domains.
• Support test planning, execution, defect management, and reporting throughout the testing lifecycle.
• Identify testing risks, issues, and dependencies and communicate them to appropriate stakeholders.
• Perform other related quality assurance duties as assigned.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience working on complex projects, including 2+ years of experience in a leadership role as a Tester or Quality Assurance professional.
• 7+ years of experience in quality assurance managing testing across multiple high-profile projects with complex functional domains in a matrixed organization.
• Experience reporting and presenting testing status, risks, and results to stakeholders and senior management.
• 1+ year of experience working within an Integrated Eligibility System program across multiple workstreams, including eligibility-related case management, in a Health and Human Services environment.
• Strong experience managing quality assurance teams, testing activities, deliverables, and testing processes.
• Experience managing test environments, test accounts, and test data.
• Experience reviewing testing deliverables to ensure alignment with business and functional requirements.
• Experience coordinating with subject matter experts, end users, technical teams, project teams, and executive stakeholders.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Associate’s degree or combination of experience and education.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience developing testing deliverables, including test plans, test cases, automated test scripts, and defect reporting documentation.
• 3+ years of experience using automated testing tools such as Selenium.
• 3+ years of experience using defect tracking and test planning tools such as Jira, Jira-related plug-ins, HP Application Lifecycle Management, or Quality Center.
• 3+ years of experience using JavaScript or related programming languages to develop automated test script solutions.
• 3+ years of experience creating testing reports, dashboards, and metrics using Jira or comparable tools.

Pay

W2 Hourly Rate: $58 – $66/hour

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