Genesis10 is seeking a QA Test Lead in Chicago for a 4 month contract.

QA/Test Lead for Chicago



The QA Lead will lead the testing strategy, planning, scheduling, and execution tasks.

-Confers with development peers for the planning and development of test strategies for new feature.

-Understand the entire development process, including design, programming and documentation, needs to be proficient in testing products according to company's QA process and industry best practices, and must be able to train project testers in the testing procedures.

-Be familiar with relevant business issues as they impact overall project plans.

-Meet with internal and external clients in an effort to better understand how a feature will be used.

-Work with IT and Work Stream Leads to define, create, execute and document Test Schedules, Test Plans, Test Cases, and defect/bug tracking techniques

-Provide progress reports for all testing efforts and ensure timely and accurate reporting

-Research and identify process improvements and help set standards and define best practices for testing

-Manage and execute defect triage process and coordinate delivery of critical fixes with product development teams.

-Help ensure overall product quality


Experience: -Ability to coordinate the efforts of a remotely located team of testers and developers.

-Work with Work Stream Leads and ITS Analysts during Design Phase to understand overall business process/application

-Coordinate testing of all QA cycles across all Work Streams

-Validate accuracy of bugs opened against test scripts

-Coordinate performance testing

-Work with ITS and Work Stream Leads to understand when full regression tests are required

-Define the entrance/exit criteria for all testing phases(i.e. Unit, QA, UAT, & Performance testing)

-Present QA viewpoint and input for project review and Core Team status meetings

-Assist in creation of reporting metrics for project and QA based reports

-Maintain real time log of executed tests, results and environment

-Participate in scheduling of target dates for deliverables, prioritizes and monitors activities to meet such dates

-Provide assessment of product quality at key milestones to project leaders, QA and management

-Mentor less senior QA testers of QA methodologies and techniques that will positively impact software quality and delivery schedules

-Coordinate all testing between Work Streams within the project and between all other dependent projects. i.e. HR

-Ensure all testing environments are available when needed to support the Provide a requirements traceability matrix to ensure all requirements have been met and thoroughly tested

-Provide a requirements traceability matrix to ensure all requirements have been met and thoroughly tested





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