QA Lead

Key responsibilities & Accountabilities:

* 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.