Urgent requirement: Lead QA Engineer/Maybelline (with heavy ecommerce exp.) / 100% Remote / Contract

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Title: Senior/Lead QA Engineer/Maybelline (with heavy ecommerce exp.)
Position Type: Contract
Location: United States
Description:
Visa: USC,GC, GC-EAD, H4, L2
Location: 100% remote
Mode: Phone & Skype
Client: Maybelline
1 Year Contract

We need a Senior (10+ Years) QA engineer (1 + year Lead experience PREFERRED) with experience working in Automation/Selenium and working on eCommerce Projects. THIS POSITION IS 100% REMOTE BUT CANDIDATES IN THE NY/NJ AREA WILL GET PREFERENCE. Experience with Zephyr is a plus, This is a Node.ja based project so that is a PLUS

****PLEASE DO NOT SEND ME QA CANDIDATES WHO DO NOT HAVE ECOMMERCE EXPERIENCE. THE CANDIDATE THAT WILL GET THIS POSITION HAS HEAVY ECOMMERCE EXPERIENCE AND AT LEAST ONE YEAR OF LEAD EXPERIENCE
JOB DESCRIPTION:

A Quality Assurance Lead reports to the Global QA Manager, and is responsible for adhering to the QA policies, processes and documentation standards, overseeing and participating in all aspects of the project. The QA Lead should be proficient in eCommerce architecture and back-end integration with websites. The QA Lead should be able to leverage their project management skills to perform the day to day management of projects / tasks / resources, but goes beyond this remit to work across the business, Product Owners, Scrum Masters in order to produce the final deliverable on time and to budget.
We're looking for a driven and successful QA Lead with a proven history of working in a more demanding / time sensitive environment. You'll work as part of a team of Global QA Leads alongside highly experienced and talented Brand Producers, Product Owners, Scrum Masters and Product development team for a successful delivery.
The successful candidate will be adapt with different project management methodologies, and comfortable working with both Waterfall and AGILE. To succeed, candidates must have the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and prioritize workload effectively, together with the ability to work under pressure whilst ensuring optimum output.
Good written, verbal and interpersonal communication skills, attention to detail and good presentation skills is a must. This role will involve frequent in person meetings with various teams on the Requirements, Architectural sessions, SOS and PI planning sessions . They will also be expected to form strong relationships with peers in our Global team, and be comfortable working in a collaborative fashion to achieve common goals.

KEY REQUIRED SKILLSET

1. Quality assurance experience – QA leads organize all aspects of the quality assurance process, and therefore, need to be familiar with that process. This knowledge comes from previous experience in a QA role. Requirement is to have a minimum of 3 years experience as a Lead.
2. Interpersonal skills – QA leads need to constantly communicate with upper management and other teams on the project. As such, they should be really good at interpersonal verbal, oral, and written communication. Throughout all phases of product development they should be proactive to report progress, plans, and problems to upper management and other involved parties and also ask feedback from upper management and implement the suggested changes in as efficient a way as possible.
3. Automation/ Technical experience: It is preferable for a QA lead to have some kind of Technical/ automation experience so as to guide the team in framing intelligent test cases/ bug reporting and involvement in requirements discussion with project teams.
4. Test plan development – The testing plan is one of the most important parts of quality assurance. QA leads should be familiar with creating and executing quality assurance test plans to ensure the product being released is up to industry and company standards and publish test status reports.
5. Time, Resource and project management – since QA leads have to juggle multiple projects at a given time, they should be excellent at time, resource and project management so they don't delay the project. In order to maintain deadlines, QA leads should also evaluate the team throughout the life of the project to identify areas where improvement can be made.
6. Industry-specific skills/certifications – QA leads should have knowledge specific to the industry in which they are working. In this case it is retail/ eCommerce.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Planning and controlling the testing process and ensuring the QA processes are being followed by the team
• Mastering Site features functionalities with thorough understanding on internal tools and platforms (CMS / Offer manager / PIM etc)
• Working closely with the Product teams to clearly understand the assumptions, background and risks for all allocated pieces of delivery
• Clear communication on the QA plan and strategy, challenges faced and it's impact in the deliverables to the stakeholders
• Monitoring the QA team, ensuring that tasks are allocated and delivered according to the plan and escalate where a deviation to plan is likely
• Being commercially aware of all decisions made throughout a project lifecycle -understanding potential impact to the timescale and raise issues/concerns where appropriate
• Maintaining regular QA team meetings with the offshore team and communicating the updates to the team
• Participate in the requirement meetings and proactively provide feedback wherever required.
• Ensuring QA resource is equipped with the necessary knowledge and training required to perform his tasks
• Creating QA test plans/strategy for any features , rollouts or enhancements and getting sign off form the stakeholders
• Accepting and clarifying the requirements and ensuring they are precisely defined
• Escalating issues/concerns immediately in order to avert projects running over time/budget
• Completing all required reports as identified and required in a timely and accurate manner
• Ensuring that all risks and issues are communicated to stakeholders
• Work collaboratively at all times ensuring that your communication style is consistent, clear and open
• Understand and work with the QA related tools and framework and provide recommendations that can help enhance the framework to support testing.
• Should be hands on and help out in testing when required. Should be able to debug and execute automation scripts.
• Work closely with the QA Manager on the strategies, improvements, recommendations, escalations, project updates, status, challenges, risks etc.
• Develop strong relationships with both the brand and the production team, ensuring that potential opportunities are identified and shared
• As a member of the Global QA team work collaboratively with the other onsite QA Leads on Global QA tasks.

Pre-screening questions:

1. When would you plan/start automation during an agile sprint? What would be your approach?
2. If you have to automate scripts for 2 or more websites that have similar functionality what would your automation approach be?
3. Define your QA strategy on integration of automation with CI/CD?
4. Create and provide a couple of automation scripts on any ecommerce user flow with the automation tool you are working with
5. What would be your QA strategy for a release within an agile sprint?
6. Use Case: You are working on a time sensitive project and you realize the quality of the code is not satisfactory. How would you handle this situation?

 
 
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Muskan Sharma
ShiftCode Analytics Inc.,
5118 Sylvester loop Tampa,
Florida 33610
Direct: 918-901-8691
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