Quality Assurance Lead - Automation Testing

Our client is seeking a QA Lead whose primary responsibility is to drive test automation, ensuring early detection of bugs and issues before the software reaches end-users, thereby maintaining the products quality and reliability. Responsibilities : The QA Lead is responsible for managing the overall system test strategy and functions for all products. - Drive the software quality assurance life cycle within an Agile process in collaboration with the development teams - Establish test strategies, and develop automated tests to ensure that the product releases meet the highest standards. - Create and maintain testing progress, test coverage, and quality reports. - Execute test cases and analyze the results to identify any bugs or issues. - Creating, maintaining, executing scripts during system-level, regression and smoke testing in various environments. - Troubleshoot issues and provide support to the development team during the testing and debugging process. - Conduct post-release and post-implementation testing to ensure the software is functioning correctly. - Work with cross-functional teams, including developers and product managers, to ensure quality throughout the software development lifecycle. - Demonstrate strong leadership skills in understanding project goals, individual role operations, the delivery process, identify testing dependencies, highlight issues, and risks to project team Requirements : - Hands on experience with Python and Selenium - Proven experience as a Quality Assurance Lead or similar role, with at least 6 years of experience testing web applications - Experience leading a team and mentoring more junior members. - Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal. - Strong knowledge in QA test tools and frameworks especially Selenium - Strong knowledge of QA methodologies and best practices. - Ability to develop scalable and reusable automation test scripts and execute them in an Agile/Scrum-based development environment - Experience documenting KPIs and metrics including quality and test coverage reports - Good experience with both front end and API testing, both manual and automated - Ability to document and troubleshoot errors and issues. Bonus Points : - Comfort in setting up a CI/CD environment with test setup integration knowledge - Working with eCommerce applications, specifically those that use Stripe as a payment processing system - Awareness of Robot Framework Our client is seeking a QA Lead whose primary responsibility is to drive test automation, ensuring early detection of bugs and issues before the software reaches end-users, thereby maintaining the products quality and reliability. Responsibilities : The QA Lead is responsible for managing the overall system test strategy and functions for all products. - Drive the software quality assurance life cycle within an Agile process in collaboration with the development teams - Establish test strategies, and develop automated tests to ensure that the product releases meet the highest standards. - Create and maintain testing progress, test coverage, and quality reports. - Execute test cases and analyze the results to identify any bugs or issues. - Creating, maintaining, executing scripts during system-level, regression and smoke testing in various environments. - Troubleshoot issues and provide support to the development team during the testing and debugging process. - Conduct post-release and post-implementation testing to ensure the software is functioning correctly. - Work with cross-functional teams, including developers and product managers, to ensure quality throughout the software development lifecycle. - Demonstrate strong leadership skills in understanding project goals, individual role operations, the delivery process, identify testing dependencies, highlight issues, and risks to project team Requirements : - Hands on experience with Python and Selenium - Proven experience as a Quality Assurance Lead or similar role, with at least 6 years of experience testing web applications - Experience leading a team and mentoring more junior members. - Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal. - Strong knowledge in QA test tools and frameworks especially Selenium - Strong knowledge of QA methodologies and best practices. - Ability to develop scalable and reusable automation test scripts and execute them in an Agile/Scrum-based development environment - Experience documenting KPIs and metrics including quality and test coverage reports - Good experience with both front end and API testing, both manual and automated - Ability to document and troubleshoot errors and issues. Bonus Points : - Comfort in setting up a CI/CD environment with test setup integration knowledge - Working with eCommerce applications, specifically those that use Stripe as a payment processing s