Corp- Corp Jobs: QA Lead opportunity

Friday, November 22, 2013

QA Test Lead with a minimum of 4 years Lead experience.

QA Test Lead

Location: Des Moines, Iowa

Contract Length: 6 months

Pay range: $55/hr.

Interview details: Face-to-face or Skype

Requirements/ Details: –Project : a variety of projects throughout

Skills

· Negotiation

· Work independently

· Clear, concise documentation & communication

· Organized

· Effective Facilitation of meetings

· Forecast development and testing resource hours

· Plan work effort

· Evaluate work product

· Drive/Monitor all development and automated testing phases (development, unit testing, end-to-end testing, and implementation)

· Evaluate Actual hours to Estimated hours

· Ability to work with and effectively manage Off Shore resources

· Ability to work with and effectively manage On Shore (remote, business, differing levels of experienced testers/contractors

· Critical thinking

· Understand and drive the value of the service

· Collaboration

· Out of the box thinking- be a problem solver

· Proactively identify product risks

· Identify and implement effective mitigation strategies for product risks

· Accurately and effectively communicate product risks to project team and QA leadership

· Ability to analyze and make corrections in plan

· Big Picture/strategic thinker

· Flexibility to change from planned when needed

· Recognize opportunities for improvement

· Create and implement process improvements

· Seek opportunities for reuse including regression beds and automation

· Effective and accurate status reporting including realistic analysis of effort and recommendations for improvement "on the fly"

· Conceptual understanding of test coverage, test cases/scripts, test design and automation techniques

· Ability to audit proposed test coverage, test cases/scripts, test design and test techniques

· Understand where to draw acceptable "redlines" for automated testing

· Understand the priority of testing from the Business perspective

· Conceptual understanding of the data lifecycle

· Test and Defect Management (including regression test coverage documentation and maintaining query logs)

Skills matrix for this position:

Skill	# Years Experience	Year Last Used	Rating (1-10)
Microsoft Access
Beyond Compare
Business Objects
ETL processes
Microsoft Excel
ALM/Quality Center - understand and use functionality to drive efficiency.
QuickTest Professional
SharePoint
Snagit
SOAP UI
SQL
Visio
Agile