Automation Test Lead 14909 (H)

A leading tech company is seeking an Automation Automation Test Lead. The successful candidate will work with an Agile development team as a primary contributor to the development, integration, and deployment of automated system tests, ensuring quality, reliability, usability, and performance of new features. The ideal candidate has Selenium Grid skills. The company offers a great work environment!

Automation Test Lead Pay and Benefits:

• Hourly pay: $55/hr
• Worksite: Leading technology and data solutions company (Tampa, FL or Reading, PA, Open to remote, Will travel to customer site, Willingness to travel as necessary, Candidates local to Tampa and Reading are preferred)
• W2 Employment, Group Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Retirement Savings Program
• 40 hours/week, 10 Month Assignment

Automation Test Lead Responsibilities:

• Automate test execution and evaluate results.
• Work with an Agile development team as a primary contributor to the development, integration, and deployment of automated system tests, ensuring quality, reliability, usability, and performance of new features.
• Participate in agile best practices and ceremonies, including use case development, story writing, grooming, and story pointing daily stand-ups, demos, and retrospectives.
• Facilitate automated testing, regression testing, UI, and API testing for all new features for desktop application, browser, and mobile testing environments.
• Participate in defect analysis to understand issues and potential root cause and implement action plans to address larger issues, ensuring they don't repeat.
• Execute test cases in the automated environment.
• Participate in the creation of effective, reusable test scripts.
• Execute tests per the plan and perform analysis of test results, including preparing reports.
• Debug complex test code.
• Take direction on process improvements in the procedures and methodologies for automated testing.
• Review output to determine if the test results fulfill the established requirements and, if necessary, notify the responsible programmers of errors, omissions, and inconsistencies in the programs and/or documentation.
• Attend test procedure walk-throughs.
• Maintain documentation of test scripts.
• Validate program logic and verify system flow within the test code.
• Learn and implement new testing procedures and advanced tools.
• Ensure software quality assurance follow the standard operating procedure.
• Manage 1-2 engineers.

Automation Test Lead Qualifications:

• 5+ years of Application Testing experience.
• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or related field.
• Expertise in enacting an enterprise-level organization's test plan.
• Selenium Grid (Core Skill) + JIRA, Zephyr for JIRA, Capture for JIRA, Load Runner, Bamboo, Bitbucket.
• Knowledge and understanding of GUI designs, load or stress testing, and designing test suites using various kinds of automation tools, including Selenium Grid (Critical Skill) and Zephyr, LoadRunner and jmeter
• Knowledge of development including coding, basic SQL knowledge to extract data for tests, XML, general web development skills, and web services.
• Advanced understanding of technology (i.e. OS layer, database layer, application layer, network, etc.).
• Understanding of Agile testing methodologies.
• Knowledge of how functions will work differently on different browsers and devices.
• Ability to both take direction and work independently in owning projects.
• Great verbal and written communication skills.