Lead Quality Assurance Engineer - Onsite - No C2C

Title: Lead Quality Assurance Engineer
Location: Troy, MI (Onsite)

NOTE: This position is a direct hire on W2, and is NOT open to C2C

Job Description

We have an exciting opportunity for a passionate Lead Quality Assurance Engineer who has the right balance of testing aptitude, technical skills, and leadership skills. Someone who prefers automation over manual testing and loves data! We are looking for someone who can collaborate with business and technical leaders, stakeholders, and development teams to strategize, design, and implement functional tests, and a full spectrum of automated test types for our data processes utilizing modern technology.

Our team is growing! We are looking for individuals who have the skills, background, and desire to be part of our mission to transform the future. As such, we have a rare opportunity for you to use your talent, passion, and extensive expertise to help drive this change in how we build our products and the experience across our product lines.

This position offers excellent career opportunity, stellar compensation, and the ability to work with the world's premier provider of aftermarket automotive data, analytics and data-driven customer facing products. We also strive to create a great working environment and atmosphere.

Required Experience (Must Have)

• Quality Assurance Experience (Minimum 5 years’ experience)
• Experience in Data Testing and Quality Analysis
• Any browser automated testing tool, such as Selenium or TestCafe
• Ability to establish and validate quality gates for our multi-tiered solutions using modern tools and methodologies with a goal for technical excellence
• Solid and demonstratable knowledge of testing techniques and best practices
• Define and communicate QA Plans that describe required test efforts for any given project
• Proven analytical skills to define test scenarios and determine root cause of problems in a complex environment
• Identify new automation opportunities
• Technical Experience (Minimum 5 years’ experience)
• Strong database experience and SQL or No-SQL skills
• Ability to create code in at least one programming language
• Design and create modular, reusable, and reliable test automation solutions
• Experience with git, pull requests, branching and able to support testing of multiple releases in parallel
• Understands CI/CD pipelines and able to enhance them for testing needs
• Data Testing Experience
• Experience testing ETLs, data conversions, data migrations, etc.
• Ability to test the quality of the data without the use of visual interfaces
• Experience in designing and implementing data quality strategies and developing data testing automation frameworks.
• Must be a strong, collaborative leader
• Minimum 2 years’ experience leading other QA engineer(s) and/or technical resources
• Provide constructive feedback to improve quality and communicate effectively
• Manage multiple competing priorities while mitigating risks to the business
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment
• Must be a critical thinker with excellent communication skills, both written and verbal

Helpful Experience (Nice To Have)

• Any Quality Assurance certification from an accredited organization (e.g., ASQ)
• Programming language experience: C#, TypeScript, JavaScript
• Experience performance testing and load testing in any tool, including K6
• Experience in testing in modern technology stacks, including Kubernetes, AWS, Data Lakes, SQL & No-SQL Databases, microservices, APIs, etc.
• Git, TFS/Azure DevOps, Octopus Deploy
• Solarwinds/SentryOne Legitest data testing tool experience

Primary Responsibilities

• Responsible for driving high test automation coverage and test automation goals
• Support offshore QA engineers by leading and mentoring them, conducting code reviews, and solving problems
• Understand MOTOR solutions, and have mastery of the product, from a user’s perspective
• Work closely with business leaders, managers, developers, architects and stakeholders to understand and enforce quality standards based on stated functional and non-functional requirements
• Define the overall test strategy and plan for any given initiative, and ensure its completeness through the duration of the initiative
• Provide governance of automated tests and the code
• Analyze test results and escalate issues appropriately
• Analyze code reviews and determine quality risks
• Solve problems and pro-actively look for ways to improve our products

If you think this position is a good fit for you, please reach out to me - feel free e-mail me, or apply to this posting!

Andrew Torchine

Atorchine@alinestaffing.com