IT Quality Assurance Analyst Lead

IT QUALITY ASSURANCE ANALYST LEAD SEATTLE, WA CONTRACT OPPORTUNITY

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Our client is the world's leading online retail company seeking a QA Lead to establish, sustain, drive, and monitor quality assurance processes, practices, and controls in support of application and system requirement, development and test activities throughout the software development and sustainment life cycles. This candidate provides leadership and consulting on quality assurance methodology, leads quality improvements, and is responsible for the development and implementation of quality assurance processes and tools.

SUMMARY OF KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

- Manages the quality assurance activities for multiple projects, software releases, and sustainment throughout the software development and test phases.
- Provides status report information.
- Escalates issues and problems demanding management attention and resolution.
- Mentors and directs other quality assurance analysts, promoting teambuilding and professional development.
- Ensures requirements and design artifacts undergo reviews to proactively validate appropriate applicability, accuracy, feasibility, usability, clarity, and testability.
- Manages the development and maintenance of quality assurance test plans, scenarios, cases and scripts.
- Monitors progress of testing and makes necessary changes to test plans, cases and scripts to ensure that quality standards and production deadlines are met.
- Responsible for defining and maintaining quality assurance testing best practices, initiates and documents processes and procedures improvements.
- Leads the continuous improvement of quality assurance practices, tools and methodologies.
- Assesses impacts on related business, functional, development and test teams.
- Researches and recommends new technologies and methods.
- Monitors and communicates progress of overall quality assurance activities and recommends changes to the strategies and processes to ensure that quality standards and practices are being followed.
- Leads and manages data, environment and configuration requirements.

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS:

- Experience in software requirements, development, and testing activities with multiple, simultaneous quality assurance efforts, and a track record as a contributor with providing quality assurance support in an analyst capacity, including tools development and usage: 7 years
- Demonstrated collaboration on project teams and interaction with project managers, business and functional analysts, developers and the business community directly related to quality assurance responsibilities and roles: 7 years
- Experience with programming languages and script development: 7 years
- Demonstrated test management process and technical skills, including an understanding of manual and automated test execution and performance related tools: 7 years
- Demonstrated knowledge using version control and defect tracking methods, including an understanding of associated tools: 7 years
- Knowledge of project management skills, including an understanding of project management processes and related tools: 7 years
- Knowledge of application software development life cycle concepts, lean and agile best practices, environment and configuration management, and test management methodologies and practices: 7 years
- Ability to research and recommend new and/or enhancements to processes and tools, based not only on technical factors, but financial and cultural as well
- Technical systems knowledge for various applications and systems
- Ability to manage and delegate numerous concurrent project, activities, and tasks under time constraints
- Ability to and instruct and educate others on developing applicable test plans, scenarios, cases, and scripts
- Team player who exhibits effective interpersonal skills with a collaborative style
- Track record of maintaining and improving individual as well as team job skills through training, self-research and self-study
- Exceptional analytical, problem solving, and decision making abilities
- Outstanding organization and planning skills
- Exceptional communication skills with the ability to communicate clearly and concisely, both orally and in writing
- Excellent facilitation and presentation skills
- Excellent risk mitigation and process improvement skills
- Sensitivity and collaborative relationship based awareness working with project sponsors and stakeholders
- Strong attention to detail

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