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Quality Assurance (100964)

Quality Analyst Lead

6-10 Years

Full Time Jobs

Market Rate

Mohali, Punjab, India

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Job Description:


QA Lead will be responsible to oversee the activity of the quality assurance department
and staff, developing, implementing, and maintaining a system of quality and reliability
testing for the organization's products. Lead has to make sure that there is no gap
between quality release and quality perceived by the end-user. Since in today’s world
quality is the sole factor that distinguishes competitive products, the test lead has a key
role to play.


He has to continuously improve himself/herself and his/her team to match the new
technology, testing techniques, and methodologies of the market.


Role & Responsibilities –


Defining Quality Metrics

  • Defining quality standards and metrics for the current project/product.
  • Working with all stakeholders to ensure that the quality metrics are reviewed,
    closed, and agreed upon.
  • Make the QA team aware of the Quality matrix and resolve all the queries.
  • Create a list of milestones and checkpoints and set measurable criteria to
    check the quality on a timely basis.

Defining Testing Strategies

  • Defining processes for the test plan and several phases of the testing cycle.
  • Planning and scheduling several milestones and tasks like alpha and beta
    testing.
  • Ensuring all development tasks meet quality criteria through test planning, test
    execution, quality assurance and issue tracking.
  • Work closely on the deadlines of the project
  • Ensure the team is focusing on automation along with manual testing.
  • Keep raising the bar and standards of all the quality processes with every project.
  • Set processes for test plan reviews and ensure that test plans get reviewed
    by all stakeholders.
  • The push team continues to innovate.
  • Review test strategies and see that all the various kinds of testing like unit,
    functional, performance, stress, acceptance etc. are getting covered.
  • Finding new strategies for automation testing and day-to-day work processes like
    agile and scrum
  • Motivating team and taking informative quick decisions.
  • Finding and arranging behavioural, functional, and non-functional training needs  for
    the team
  • Coordinate activities which enforce quality improvements
  • Resolving conflicts among team members.
  • Maintaining cordial relationships between cross-functional teams like
    development, configuration management.


Reporting 

  • Reviewing status reports from team managers and taking appropriate actions
    accordingly.
  • Should be the focal point of contact for the QA team for all the escalations related to
    testing and Quality assurance.
  • Sending crisp and clear status to the higher management.


Managing Risks 

  • Creating and defining risk contingencies and plans.
  • Reviewing status reports from team managers and taking appropriate actions
    accordingly.
  • Should be the focal point of contact for the QA team for all the escalations related to
    testing and Quality assurance.
  • Sending crisp and clear status to the higher management.
  • Creating and defining risk contingencies and plans.


Process improvements

  • Ensure that several testing and validation processes are improved
    continuously.
  • Motivate the team to improve efficiency so that the time saved can be used in
    different work areas.
  • Challenge the team continues to move towards automation for all daily works
    Publish the improvements to all the stakeholders and depict the improvements
    using data points.
  • Create quarterly milestones for yearly improvement projects and set deadlines
    for the team to complete them.
  • Work with the development team to ensure that the quality engineers get apt
    support like automation hooks or debug builds where ever and whenever
    possible.