Responsibilities:

• Provide thought leadership and a strong quality mindset through out the product development process.
• Operate in an agile environment to assess project readiness, influence testability, and ensure robust test development, system reliability, performance, and quality.
• Collaborate with Product Managers, Architects, Developers, QA, and other technology experts to define test plans, strategies, and approaches for complex enterprise applications.
• Drive projects to completion by creating robust quality plans, managing risks, enhancing test coverage, and integrating tests with CI/CD pipelines to ensure continuous quality and early defect detection.
• Contribute to the development and evolution of automated test frameworks and scripts for functional, integration, regression, and performance testing.
• Conduct performance and security testing to ensure applications meet scalability and security standards.
• Advocate for end-users by ensuring their needs and concerns are addressed, and interact with customers to enhance understanding of their use-cases.
• Mentor QA team members in implementing effective QA strategies, promoting best practices in risk management, automation and testing.
• Stay current with industry trends, technologies, and best practices in software testing and QA, aiming to improve testing processes and enhance the engineering team’s overall efficiency and delivery effectiveness.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree(or foreign equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or a related field.
• 2+ years of experience working in an Agile software development environment.
• Extensive experience with creating and executing software QA plans for complex, high-volume, event-based systems, especially those involving hundreds to thousands transactions per day.
• Experience in reviewing product requirements, architecture and design principles to improve application behavior and system performance.
• Expertise in functional and non-functional testing types, including system, integration, scale, HA and reliability.
• Proficient at least one programming language, such as Java.
• Familiarity with setting up and managing test environments on cloud-based platforms, preferably AWS.
• Strong understanding of QA, CICD and DevOps methodologies and tools, especially related to AWS.
• Experience with cloud-native monitoring and logging tools such as New Relic, Datadog, Prometheus.
• Proficiency with automation tools/frameworks such as TestNG, Junit, Cypress, Karate, Playwright, JMeter.
• Proven record of strong leadership, communication, team development, problem solving and organization skills.
• Self-starter, self-managed individual who can work independently and quickly adjust to changing priorities.
• Business and technical background in cybersecurity and security automation/orchestration is a strong plus.