QA Lead

• Collaborate with product owners, developers, and stakeholders to define clear acceptance criteria including cross functional requirements

• Promote and advocate for quality throughout SDLC applying shift left and shift right quality mindset.
• Guide the test strategy for the team and contribute to the overall departmental test strategy.
• Demonstrate adaptability to the test approach based on evolving team and project needs.
• Define and implement efficient testing processes, methodologies, and best practices.
• Balance exploratory and automated testing efforts for optimal test coverage.
• Drive the team to create a reliable automated test suite with strong reporting capabilities that ensures simple, effective analysis of failures
• Integrate testing processes seamlessly into CI/CD workflows for rapid and reliable software delivery.
• Encourage and apply Test Driven Development (TDD) and pair programming practices.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement and adaptation within their development team.
• Share new and innovative ideas about quality and agile techniques with the delivery team and the Quality community.
• Mentor members of the team and fellow Quality Engineers

Skills & Ability

• Possess strong knowledge and experience in performance testing, UI automation, API testing, contract testing.
• Understand existing alerting and monitoring dashboards, and suggest changes that make product quality visible
• Thrive in a cross-functional team, collaborating closely with developers, Product Owners, Agile delivery leads, QEs, Engineering Managers and other stakeholders.
• Be embedded in one of two teams working on the legacy platform.
• Take ownership of testing features and bug fixes and support release readiness across multiple business domains.
• Communicate proactively about risks, blockers, and test coverage.

Knowledge & Experience

• API Frameworks
• C#
• Reqnroll
• NUnit / XUnit
• RestSharp
• UI Frameworks
• Playwright (TypeScript)
• Playwright (C#)
• Performance Frameworks
• k6 (nice to have)
• Familiarity with Azure DevOps / cloud tools
• Insurance domain knowledge nice to have.