Lead Software QA Analyst

Purpose

The Lead Software QA oversees the QA team and manages the end-to-end testing lifecycle including defect management and reporting. They are responsible for ensuring efficient testing processes, driving process improvements and providing leadership to QA personnel.

As the Lead Software QA Analyst, you will play a critical role in ensuring the quality and reliability of software products through comprehensive testing methodologies. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to understand product requirements, design test cases, and execute test plans to identify defects and ensure the highest level of product quality. Your expertise in manual & automation testing and test case development will be instrumental in delivering robust and user-friendly software solutions.

Location and Hours
• This position is based in the US and may be remote or hybrid.
• Must be available to work in U.S. with core hours of 9:00 am to 3:00 pm Central Time.

Qualifications & Experience:

Required:

- Minimum 5 years of experience working with software testing methodologies, best practices, test automation, using tools like Cucumber, REST-assured, Selenium, Postman etc.
- Minimum 5 years of experience testing and understanding complex engineering applications.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with keen attention to detail
- Strong communication and collaboration skills to work effectively in cross-functional teams
- Able to perform cross-browser/load/performance testing automatically
- Must be fluent in the English language
- Must be legally authorized to work in the United States

Preferred

- Demonstrated experience leading, mentoring and coordinating the activities of a software QA/testing team
- Agile methodologies and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines
- XRay Test Management
- Selenium
- C# Programming

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, and Other Characteristics

- Gives and receives constructive feedback
- Ensures that regular consistent communication takes place within area of responsibility
- Ensures that important information from management is shared with employees and others as appropriate
- Self-motivated, confident and passionate
- Strong organizational and documentation skills
- Provides vision and inspiration to peers and subordinates
- Able to make decisions in conflicting situations
- Should be comfortable with ambiguity
- Able to manage a wide variety of discrete functions and services
- Able to set priorities in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment

Working Conditions

This position is considered OFFICE WORK and is characterized as follows:

- Almost exclusively indoors during the day and occasionally at night.
- Occasional exposure to airborne dust in the workplace.
- Work surface is stable and flat.
- May require occasional travel and work outside normal business hours to support audits, releases, incidents, or global operations.

Physical Activity/Requirements

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

This position is considered LIGHT work.

OCCASIONAL

FREQUENT

CONSTANT

Lift up to 20 pounds
Climbing, stooping, kneeling, squatting, and reaching

Lift up to 10 pounds
Standing

Repetitive movements of arms and hands
Sit with back supported