QA test Lead

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Define Testing Standards and Strategies:
  • Proven expert in plan strategy and development / risk matrix development / requirements traceability, etc.
  • Create testing plans, including individual testing phases, and ensure the team meets the deadlines set forth in those plans.
  • Evaluate the team throughout the life of the project to identify areas where improvement can be made.
• Solid understanding of Project Life Cycle, Project Management, SDLC methods
• Ability to interpret complex requirements and translate to use cases/test scenarios and strategies.
• Develop and implement test plans.
• Add appropriate test cases to the Test Suites
• Analyze requirements during the requirements analysis phase of projects.
• Keep track of the new requirements from the Project and their impact to testing.
• Analyzing user stories and/use cases/requirements for validity and feasibility
• Execute all levels of testing (System, Integration, and Regression)
• Track and report upon testing activities, including testing results, test case coverage, required resources, defects discovered and their status, performance baselines, etc.
• Act as the single point of contact between developers for iterations and deployment activities.
• Ensure content and structure of all Testing documents / artifacts is documented and maintained.
• Document, implement, monitor, and enforce all best practices processes and procedures relating to testing as defined by the organization.
• Log and/or manage defects in the defect tracking tool identified for the project.

Technical Skills/Experience

• Desired experience in testing on administrative systems for life insurance and have a life insurance knowledge base
• Expertise with SQL/querying – analyzing data from test to running automated compares for regression
• Good working knowledge of Database and Integration testing
• Expertise on Test Data Management
• Expertise with testing data migration from Multiple Database sources