Quality Assurance Architect - Technical Leadership on a 2 year Project

Azule Staffing has an opportunity for an experienced, IT QA Architect to provide the overall technical leadership for a team of QA professionals on a long-term, project. You will work with the QA Manager to lead a team consisting of QA Leads and Testers. This project will require the team to work onsite with our client, at their facility in St. Paul, MN. This opportunity is scheduled start in early November, with the engagement to be for two years.

This will be an Agile project, with sprints running every two weeks. The client is requiring a team of QA professionals to work with the Scrum teams in developing a new system. Much more information will be shared with interested and qualified candidates.

PROJECT REQUIREMENTS

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Provide QA leadership and ownership of all aspects of QA. This will include functional testing, test automation, data generation and management, regression testing, UAT Strategy and testing, accessibility testing, mobile testing and performance testing.
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Manage all aspects of data generation and management within the client's systems Interfacing partners. This includes generating test data, managing test data and testing data services with tools such as SOAPUI.
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Evaluate and select automation tools, acceptable to both the vendor and the client, as well as develop a test automation strategy and architecture that are both practical and scalable. Evaluate manual test cases and evaluate what can be automated, seeking to automate as much testing as practical.

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Build and maintain a sprint-based approach to QA that best fits with the development team. Provide a strategy of how QA integrates with continuous integration cycles with multiple development teams.
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Provide strategy and execution for testing of the current application as portions are decommissioned concurrent with release of the new application.

OVERALL, THE QUALITY ASSURANCE TEAM WILL:

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Provide leadership to deliver state of the art Agile quality assurance testing automation approaches, focusing on designing and delivering a scalable, modular, world class automated regression testing system that will assure a high quality, easily refactorable test suite;
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Focus on delivering automated regression tests in a sprint trailing when the development was completed and incorporating those additional tests into a comprehensive regression testing suite;

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Deliver manual testing, including accessibility testing at appropriate stages to ensure effective and useful test results;
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Communicate effectively to keep Scrum mates, other Scrum teams and leadership informed of progress and potential risks;
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Automated tests will be developed in response to user stories assigned to the Scrum team. Quality Assurance staff will be an integral part of each scrum.

If you are qualified and interested in learning more, please send your resume and contact information.