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This role requires strong experience in agile work management, collaboration, integration testing, quality assurance, requirements management, SDLC practices, systems integration, troubleshooting, web services, and workflow management.\nThe ideal candidate will plan, prioritize, and manage work using agile practices that enable iterative delivery, collaboration, adaptability, and continuous improvement. The role also involves partnering with engineering teams to evaluate source code, identify issues, improve quality, and promote maintainability and coding best practices.\nThis position designs, executes, and maintains tests that validate interactions across integrated components, systems, services, data flows, interfaces, and dependencies. 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The candidate should be a key contributor who can informally coach others and help teams deliver reliable, maintainable solutions.\nRole\nIn this role, you will:\nLead QE activities across assigned projects, including test planning, strategy, validation, automation, and release readiness.\nDesign and maintain integration tests for systems, services, APIs, data flows, interfaces, and dependencies.\nApply agile work management practices to plan, prioritize, and manage work effectively in iterative delivery environments.\nPartner with product owners, developers, and delivery teams to clarify requirements, manage changes, identify risks, and ensure testability.\nLead UI, API, backend, integration, and performance automation using tools such as Playwright, Cypress, Gatling, and BlazeMeter.\nTroubleshoot complex technical issues across systems, applications, services, integrations, environments, and networks.\nAnalyze workflows, remove bottlenecks, streamline procedures, monitor progress, 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