Lead QA Engineer - W2 Only

Lead QA Engineer
Location - 100% remote (W2)
Duration - 12+ Months (Contract to hire)

Job Description:

• Responsible for planning, coordinating, and directing test activities for data products released on the Snowflake Enterprise Data Platform
• Provide day-to-day mentorship and coaching for quality engineers on how to work effectively and efficiently with their project teams.
• Provide ongoing coaching to direct reports including setting goals and objectives, writing performance reviews and holding regular one-on-one meetings.
• Interview and hire additional staff as needed to respond to growth of development teams.
• Drive test automation strategy and leverage tools for validating data and application functionality.
• Identify opportunities for productivity gains through quality engineering process improvements and in the Agile development lifecycle; develop procedures and proposals and lead the implementation of these changes.
• Document and analyze test results and recommend corrective action.
• Isolate, reproduce, manage, and maintain defects and test case databases, and verify fixes.
• Support user acceptance testing conducted by business partners or end users.
• Identify opportunities to reduce testing time and effort by automating repeatable tests.
• Define and champion quality and testing best practices among development teams.

Qualifications and Experience

• Knowledge in cloud data warehousing technologies such as AWS, Azure, Snowflake.
• Experience with Enterprise Database technologies like SQL Server, Oracle, Data Integration (Informatica, DataStage), business intelligence, and reporting tools.
• Experience creating test automation frameworks and test cases
• Demonstrated experience performing functional, end-to-end and regression testing.
• Experience defining and implementing test management tools and processes.
• Ability to create, analyze, and publish quality metrics and measures across teams to communicate release quality, and deliver status updates to senior management.
• Experience recommending and implementing best practices to improve quality engineering workflows and increase team productivity.
• Strong understanding of software quality principles and processes.
• Experience with test data creation
• Experience designing and implementing test plans.
• Experience with test management tools (e.g., TestRail, XRay, Qtest, Quality Center).
• Experience with test automation frameworks (e.g., Selenium, Cypress, Puppeteer, Playwright).
• Attention to detail and ability to identify, isolate and document defects.
• Superior verbal and written communication skills for both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Proficient in SQL and additional programming languages such as Python, Java etc.
• Strong knowledge of agile practices and experience with agile planning tools (e.g., Jira)
• 7+ years of experience working in a quality assurance role for cloud/on-prem data warehouses
• 5+ years management experience overseeing 5 to 10 QA Engineers is required.
• 3+ years of healthcare data solutions development experience