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Job title: QA Lead
Location: Hybrid Burlington MA May consider a relocation Candidate if not too far
Contract
Job Description:
Project
- Seasoned Quality Assurance Lead to lead end to end quality assurance work for a large-scale Master Data Management (MDM) program.
Impact: The success of the testing efforts will directly affect the quality of the business outcomes influencing the organization s ability to make data-driven decisions. Errors in testing could lead to significant data quality issues and business disruptions across all business units
Education & Experience:
- Bachelor s in information technology, Computer Science, or related field.
- 8+ years of experience in QA/testing within complex MDM or data programs.
- Strong background in testing within Agile/Safe Agile environments, including experience with continuous integration and delivery practices.
Technical Skills:
- Proficiency in testing tools and frameworks (e.g., Selenium, JIRA, Jenkins, ALM, X Ray) for automated and manual testing.
- Experience with MDM platforms (e.g., Stibo, Informatica, SAP MDM) and familiarity with ERP, CRM, and other enterprise systems.
- Strong knowledge of data integration processes, data quality validation, and data transformation testing.
Leadership & Problem Solving:
- Demonstrated ability to lead testing teams and manage the entire testing lifecycle within complex, multi-system environments.
- Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills, with a focus on identifying root causes of testing issues and ensuring timely resolution.
Executive presence
Strong critical and analytical thinking
Thought leader
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills to work effectively across technical and business teams.
Responsibilities:
Testing Leadership & Strategy:
- Serve as a QA leader and QA subject matter expert providing guidance on best practices, testing frameworks, and testing tools
- Direct the creation and implementation of an all-encompassing testing strategy for the enterprise-wide MDM program, ensuring the single source of truth is verified and upheld across all data repositories.
- Uphold the company's existing testing and quality assurance standards and best practices, including test planning, case design, and execution for data integrations, migrations, and transformations.
-Collaborate with the KDP QA/Test Manager to address essential matters such as test resources, tool issues, and license management.
Ensure end to end detailed test plan is created, executed according to plan not only at the team level but at the ART program level to ensure all testing dependencies are identified and managed on a timely basis across teams
Ensure testing strategy has the detailed environment requirements and data refreshes planned and executed for success
Agile Testing & Continuous Integration:
- Strong and deep understanding of Agile principles and practices specially those specifically to SAFE.
- Work closely with the Agile Product Owners and Scrum Masters to ensure alignment of quality goals and integrate QA processes into the development lifecycle, ensuring timely and effective testing within the agile team
- Advocate and Implement test automation to improve efficiency and test coverage.
- Lead regression testing, system integration testing (SIT), user acceptance testing (UAT), and performance testing across multiple integrated systems.
Quality Assurance:
-Advocate for QA standards and best practices within Agile teams to ensure consistent and dependable software delivery.
-Oversee the execution of manual and automated tests, ensuring comprehensive test coverage and timely identification of bugs/defects
Ensure plan includes testing automation to drive productivity for each future Program Increment and increase team velocity
-Ensure the QA environments readiness for all systems affected by the MDM Program.
Problem Solving:
- Identify, track, and resolve quality issues throughout the testing process.
- Collaborate with Scrum Masters to conduct root cause analysis for bugs or defects and offer actionable feedback to address them.
Reporting:
-Work with the agile teams to collect data and provide regular updates to project stakeholders on testing progress, defect resolution, and system readiness.
- Generate test summary reports to highlight key findings, including pass/fail rates, defect counts, testing coverage, and lessons learned.
