Lead Quality Assurance Engineer

Job Title: Lead QA Engineer

Location: West Los Angeles, CA(Hybrid)

Job Type: Contract

Ability to work in the U.S. without sponsorship

Ability to meet the location requirement outlined below

Responsibilities

• Lead, build, and maintain performance test automation frameworks using JMeter, Jenkins and SQL, as well as contributing to the existing frameworks to be used by other SDETs and QA Engineers.
• Lead, build, and maintain performance test automation frameworks using ReadyAPI/SoapUI for rest-based APIs hosted on Amazon cloud and Azure cloud, as well as contribute to the existing automated frameworks to be used by other SDETs and QA Engineers.
• Develop and execute test cases related to functional load testing, stress testing, and end-to-end system load testing and automates them for regression and execution.
• Write SQL queries and scripts to create and extract data for testing purposes.
• Lead the creation of test strategy, test planning, and test execution related to performance testing like BAU load, stress, limits, end-2-end systems testing, database validations and automation.
• Be hands-on contributor and manage a team of QA Engineers through all phases of testing.
• Review requirements and design specifications, and derive test strategy to validate system performance, report test results, drive the defect triage process with stakeholders, while adhering to established QA and Project Management processes.
• Take ownership and work proactively with minimum supervision on the Performance QA teams assigned testing tasks and delivering them on time and efficiently as per project deadlines.

Experience/Skills

• Minimum 7 years of in-depth QA Engineering experience including hands-on performance and automation experience.
• Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent work experience acceptable.
• Proficient in one or more programming and scripting languages - C#, Java, Python, Groovy, JS.
• Must be hands-on with AWS and Azure Cloud API services testing.
• Must be hands-on with API performance testing tools JMeter, ReadyAPI.
• Must possess working knowledge of UI Testing Tools Selenium, Cucumber, BrowserStack, Appium.
• Must be hands-on with complex SQL queries using databases like MySQL, MS SQL, and CosmosDB.
• Must be hands-on with CI/CD tools like Jenkins, and familiar with testing lifecycle tools like TestRail.
• Experience in leading and delivering for medium to large testing projects, including test automation.
• Strong analytical, multitasking, and organizational skills to manage testing on multiple projects.
• Experience with Agile methodology and concepts using JIRA or similar Agile tools.
• Additional Requirements