QA Lead

Roles & Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities 

Collaborate with product owners, developers, and stakeholders to define clear acceptance criteria including cross functional requirements 

Promote and advocate for quality throughout SDLC applying shift left and shift right quality mindset. * Guide the test strategy for the team and contribute to the overall departmental test strategy. 

 Demonstrate adaptability to the test approach based on evolving team and project needs. 

Define and implement efficient testing processes, methodologies, and best practices. 

 Balance exploratory and automated testing efforts for optimal test coverage. 

Drive the team to create a reliable automated test suite with strong reporting capabilities that ensures simple, effective analysis of failures 

 Integrate testing processes seamlessly into CI/CD workflows for rapid and reliable software delivery. * Encourage and apply Test Driven Development (TDD) and pair programming practices. 

 Foster a culture of continuous improvement and adaptation within their development team. 

Share new and innovative ideas about quality and agile techniques with the delivery team and the Quality community. 

Mentor members of the team and fellow Quality Engineers

 Key  Requirements

Possess strong knowledge and experience in performance testing, UI automation, API testing, contract testing. 

Understand existing alerting and monitoring dashboards, and suggest changes that make product quality visible Thrive in a cross-functional team, collaborating closely with developers, Product Owners, Agile delivery leads, QEs, Engineering Managers and other stakeholders. 

Be embedded in one of two teams working on the legacy platform. 

Take ownership of testing features and bug fixes and support release readiness across multiple business domains. 

Communicate proactively about risks, blockers, and test coverage. Knowledge & Experience API Frameworks C# Reqnroll NUnit / XUnit RestSharp UI Frameworks Playwright (TypeScript) Playwright (C#) Performance Frameworks k6 (nice to have) Familiarity with Azure DevOps / cloud tools Insurance domain knowledge nice to have.