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These are the people who keep our lights on and gas flowing, build roads and bridges, run our manufacturing factories, ensure that we get healthcare service, and provide us with reliable phone and internet connectivity. As entrepreneurs, have we considered solving their problems and making them more productive?\nZinier is a company on a mission to empower frontline workers - and the people supporting them - to achieve greater things for themselves and the world around them. With the majority of workers worldwide being deskless, Zinier recognizes the need for Technology Equity to improve the lives and productivity of these workers who keep the world up and running.\nWe have global team headquartered in Silicon Valley, with a hybrid workforce across the United States, Canada, Europe, Latin America, Singapore, and Bangalore, India, with leading investors that include Accel, ICONIQ Capital, Founders Fund, Newfund Capital, NGP Capital, Tiger Global Management, and Qualcomm Ventures LLC.\nWe are looking for \nExperienced QA lead to work with the development leads, project managers and support leads on various projects. Responsible for leading a skilled, cross functional team following agile principles for software development in enhancing platform and product features for best in class quality, scalability and high performance deliveries. \nYou will also need to be a hands-on team player and perform tasks such as writing test cases, reviewing testing logs, performing manual tests, etc. You will work very closely with other Technical Managers, DevOps, Tech Leads and business partners to ensure the success of a variety of projects and initiatives. You’ll also be responsible for hiring and developing talent within our organization. Providing ongoing metrics and reporting on quality metrics will be key as well.\nJob Responsibilities:\nDefine and drive an overall unifying quality vision for the QA department through consensus building and leading change.\nDefine, manage and execute a roadmap to maximize test coverage with emphasis on automation and integration with CI/CD initiatives. \nManage and create proactive testing plans to ensure high availability of the Zinier system in alignment with company initiatives and priorities. \nWork with project stakeholders to deliver timely reports and define release strategies. \nLead and Support the release team for various major and minor releases engineering is responsible for. \nMonitor and manage testing teams to ensure project deliveries are met with high quality and processes set for testing efforts.\nImplement processes to identify feature and regression gaps and build a culture on the effective RCAs on escaped defects and production feedback. \nEffectively plan, communicate and conduct presentations (project milestones, risk mitigation, road maps, resource needs, technical information, etc.) for senior management and stakeholders, while conveying and driving actionable items to your team.\nNeed excellent leadership skills, working with immediate teams as well as cross functional teams spanning the organization\nImplement new tools to help reduce the manual testing efforts and define better tracking on the test plans and regression suites.\nReport deviations of quality per release and define & execute steps to mitigate the deviations.\nReview the core strengths of the QA teams and proactively engage and mentor the team members for career growth, define goals for bringing success to individuals and organization.\nBuild automation test suites implemented in Java, Selenium, Appium, Rest-assured automation framework. 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