Law

Need: Q.A. Lead

Location : Dallas, TX – Only Locals

Duration : 1 year

Skills:

Agile User Stories/Acceptance Criteria,   and 2+ Yrs.,

Automated Test Scripts *,   and 5+ Yrs.,

Defect Tracking Tools *,   and 5+ Yrs.,

Manual Test Cases *,   and 5+ Yrs.,

Testing Methodologies *,   and 7+ Yrs.,

Web Services Testing Tools *

Responsibilities:

•          Lead QA testing efforts for new releases and ongoing application maintenance

•          Define and document test strategy, test plans and test cases by evaluating functional and non-functional requirements of all projects

•          Provide leadership to non-technical functional testers on a day-to-day basis by assigning testing tasks necessary to meet the project timelines

•          Develop a strong understanding of the application and domain to perform hands-on testing of the services from a technical standpoint (especially to test non-functional aspects such as load, response time, end-to-end connectivity, availability, security etc.) using soap UI and web interface

•          Manage the status of defects/enhancements in the change management system and provide updates to the team on a daily basis

•          Work closely with the vendor (Farelogix) that supports application development to accomplish testing goals

•          Attend/conduct meetings with the IT team, vendor, business team, project program office and other application teams to accomplish project goals

•          Provide demos to business unit for completed functionalities

•          Create weekly metrics/reports to capture test progress for projects and releases

•          Handle testing efforts for multiple projects/releases concurrently

•          Evaluate and implement test automation

•          Identify and manage test cases for automation

•          Adapt to the needs of the group to coordinate testing efforts

Following skills are a must:

•          Strong leadership skills, verbal and written communication skills, problem solving skills, and inter-personal skills

•          Extremely detail-oriented and organized

•          Strong at multi-tasking and prioritizing activities to meet the project needs

•          Excellent background in foundational concepts of testing

•          Recent experience in creating test strategy, test plan and test cases for large projects

•          Hands-on experience testing web services, preferably using SOAPUI

•          Technical depth to create and run test cases that cover a wide variety of scenarios such as functional, regression, endurance, performance, SLAs etc.

•          Good at capturing and documenting necessary details for test cases

•          Ability to learn the business logic quickly to interpret requirements and prioritize defects

•          Ability to concurrently manage testing efforts for projects that are small, medium and large in scope

•          Ability to perform testing and lead testers across multiple projects

Skills that are a plus:

•          Experience with Rally, Bugzilla and MS Visio

•          Agile methodology

•          Experience with load testing tools and regression automation tools

•          Airline experience

•          Sabre experience

•          Experience in coordinating efforts across team members who may not be co-located.

Education/Experience:

•          Degree (Master's or Bachelor's) in computer science, computer engineering or relevant field is a must

•          5-7 years' experience required