Lead QA Tester

Lead QA Tester
Designated Work Location Pearl St, 4th Floor
Anticipated Duration of the Engagement: 27 months
Rate 85.00 Corp or 75.00 W/2 hourly with benefits.
Sub-vendor can only submit their employees and must be approved vendor.


Mandatory Qualifications:

• 2 or more years in a leadership role as a Tester
• Level III- More than seven (7) years of experience working on complex projects with
• More than seven (7) years of work experience in quality assurance, managing testing across multiple high-profile projects, with complex functional domains, within a matrix organization.
• More than seven (7) years of work experience reporting and presenting to stakeholders and senior management.

• More than seven (7) years of work experience developing testing products including test plans, test cases, automated test scripts and defect reporting documentation.
• Three (3) to five (5) years of work experience with automated testing tools such as Selenium.
• Three (3) to five (5) years of work experience with defect tracking and test planning tools such as Jira, Jira-related plug-ins or HP Application Lifecycle Management/Quality Center.
• Three (3) to five (5) years of work experience in java scripting or related programing languages within the context of developing automated test script solutions.
• Two (2) years’ work experience coordinating with, and liaising with, performance testing teams or security testing teams.
• Three (3) to five (5) years of work experience leading and facilitating meetings, workgroups, etc. Including supervising teams of quality analysts.
• Three (3) to five (5) years of work experience with creating reports and dashboards for test metrics using Jira or another tool.
• Three (3) to five (5) years of work experience managing the defect lifecycle including defect creation, monitoring and status reporting as well as retesting defect fixes.

• Working for the QA Lead, the Tester Level 3 will manage and oversee quality assurance activities for multiple workstreams including Eligibility Enrollment and Case Management (EECM) and Financial Management (FM). 
• Manage adherence to the IES Program Level testing strategy, quality assurance processes, artifacts and tools.  Manage quality assurance team and deliverables.
• Liaison with relevant stakeholders, including subject matter experts, users, executive teams, etc. to ensure that projects meet business needs. 
• Oversee adherence to the IES Program Level testing strategy, quality assurance processes, artifacts and tools. 
• Review deliverables from vendors to ensure system testing and delivery are in line with business needs, as described in the requirements. 
• Produce reports for Management and Project teams regarding status of Testing Efforts. 
• Manage test environments, test accounts and test data according to best practices. 
• Manage blended teams of State and vendor resources.
• Other duties as assigned.