Job Title: QA Lead (Ref Code: 070113-KELROB-IO25-E-CHI)

Location: FORT WORTH, Texas

Duration: 6 months

Visa Type: GC/EAD/US Citizen

 

Job Description:

Responsibilities:

Lead QA testing efforts for new releases and ongoing application maintenance.
Define and document test strategy, test plans and test cases by evaluating functional and non-functional requirements of all projects. Provide leadership to non-technical functional testers on a day-to-day basis by assigning testing tasks necessary to meet the project timelines. Develop a strong understanding of the application and domain to perform hands-on testing of the services from a technical standpoint (especially to test non-functional aspects such as load, response time, end-to-end connectivity, availability, security etc.) using soap UI and web interface. Manage the status of defects/enhancements in the change management system and provide updates to the team on a daily basis. Work closely with the vendor (Farelogix) that supports application development to accomplish testing goals. Attend/conduct meetings with the IT team, vendor, business team, project program office and other application teams to accomplish project goals. Provide demos to business unit for completed functionalities. Create weekly metrics/reports to capture test progress for projects and releases. Handle testing efforts for multiple projects/releases concurrently. Evaluate and implement test automation. Identify and manage test cases for automation. Adapt to the needs of the group to coordinate testing efforts

Following skills are a must:

Strong leadership skills, verbal and written communication skills, problem solving skills, and inter-personal skills. Extremely detail-oriented and organized.
Strong at multi-tasking and prioritizing activities to meet the project needs. Excellent background in foundational concepts of testing. Recent experience in creating test strategy, test plan and test cases for large projects. Hands-on experience testing web services, preferably using SOAPUI. Technical depth to create and run test cases that cover a wide variety of scenarios such as functional, regression, endurance, performance, SLAs etc. Good at capturing and documenting necessary details for test cases. Ability to learn the business logic quickly to interpret requirements and prioritize defects. Ability to concurrently manage testing efforts for projects that are small, medium and large in scope. Ability to perform testing and lead testers across multiple projects.

Skills that are a plus:

Experience with Rally, Bugzilla and MS Visio
Agile methodology
Experience with load testing tools and regression automation tools
Airline experience
Sabre experience
Experience in coordinating efforts across team members who may not be co-located.

Education/Experience:
Degree (Masters or Bachelors) in computer science, computer engineering or relevant field is a must

5-7 years experience required

 

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For immediate response:
Contact: Ching, Ph: 703 880 9800, email: chingm@iormyx.com