SDET Analyst Lead

Our client is a hugely popular Northwest brand seeking a SDET ANALYST LEAD to develop, implement, and sustain test automation processes, practices, and controls in support of application and system requirements, development and test activities throughout the software development and sustainment life cycles. This role leads and consults on test automation strategy, requirement, design, implementation and execution. Mentors and directs other SDETs and Quality Assurance Analysts.

SUMMARY OF KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

- Responsible for the creation, definition, implementation and leadership of an automation strategy that defines how test automation will be performed across one or more business units within an enterprise.
- Works closely with cross functional teams to ensure automation needs of project team are met.
- Provides leadership working directly with quality assurance management, project management, business and functional analysts, developers, infrastructure, and testers to gather and develop test automation requirements.
- Supervises, supports, and provides assistance for SDETs as needed in the development, maintenance, and execution of automated test scripts, ensuring adherence to defined coding standards, and automation designs.
- Communicates summarized information about test plan and execution activities occurring in shared integrated environments to all impacted groups, and provides proactive management of shared and conflicting test plans for all projects assigned.
- Responsible for defining, implementing and tracking ROI Analysis for test automation efforts per project.
- Manages the test automation activities throughout the software development and test phases across multiple projects.
- Manages refactoring approach and methodology to ensure automation code continues to gain in efficiency.
- Responsible for creation of and adherence to coding standards, code storage, and designs to ensure that quality standards and practices are being followed.
- Collaborates with development, architecture, and environment teams to ensure environment build out and structure supports the automation test capability, is appropriate and scalable.

SUMMARY OF EXPERIENCE:

- Test Automation design and implementation experience: 8 years
- Experience designing, developing and implementing automation frameworks across the enterprise: 8 years
- Work experience in software requirements, development or testing with creating and executing quality assurance test plans, scenarios, cases, checklists and scripts: 7 years
- 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
- Demonstrate test management processes and technical skills, including an understanding of manual and automated test execution and performance related tools: 7 years
- Demonstrate 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, as well as test management methodologies and practices: 7 years

REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND 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
- Exceptional analytical, problem solving, and decision making abilities
- 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
- Demonstrated track record of maintaining and improving individual as well as team job skills through training, self-research and self-study
- Familiarity with Software Design Lifecycle
- Exceptional ability to learn new technology and business processes
- Exceptional proficiency in programming languages such as, SQL, C/C++, or other languages as required by business unit
- Exceptional ability to understand and work with application functionality and system technology (databases, OS, etc.)
- Exceptional ability to influence diverse groups of individuals from technical to business teams with exceptional business savvy
- Exceptional ability to translate technical terms and discussions to nontechnical in order to ensure the topics at hand can be interpreted by all