Quality Assurance Tester

The Quality Engineer will work closely with project teams and stakeholders as part of Agile Scrum /Waterfall project teams. They will also be responsible for building and executing Manual and Automation testing programs for Dollar Tree/Family Dollar programs. The QE will also perform resource capacity planning, prepare and review QA/QE estimate, and coordinate all QA/QE activities for their assigned PODs

Principal Duties and Responsibilities

• Guide the team of internal and external QA testers for Automation testing and architecture

• Perform critical tasks for the QA department like but not limited to - lead project intake meetings, estimates QA/QEA efforts & resource capacity planning, prepare status reports, communicate with project stakeholders.

• Prepare and review QA deliverables, test strategy, test plans, test scripts based on business requirements.

• Govern QEA processes/Initiatives and provide progress reports on the QEA initiatives.

• Coordinate all testing activities between QA Team/Development Teams/Business/vendor, for assigned projects/PODs.

• Conduct and drive defect triage calls

• Build automation/manual test cases and perform test execution

• Proactively raise, escalate and communicate quality issues and potential project risks

• Should define the appropriate Test Automation framework working with the development and architect teams

• Perform project and non-project related tasks and activities to support the department's goals and objectives

• Proactively look at opportunities on improving the QA/QE process with best practices as applicable

• Willingness to learn new technologies, tools and applications to support the business

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years testing experience

• 4+ years of experience as QE in Retail

• Experienced in one or all these Retail Functionalities- Supply Chain, Digital( Website and Mobile), Merchandising ,Core Systems( HR, Finance, Legal , Real Estate), POS

• 3+ years exp in Ui Path tool

• Experience using test automation and performance testing tools

• Hands on experience in API automation

• Prior testing experience working on Point Of Sale ( POS) systems

• Should have strong knowledge in best practices working in test strategies and automation

• Proven experience in team building and hiring

• Ability to organizing, prioritizing activities across multiple projects is essential

• Experience working with multiple vendors and distributed teams

• Need robust understanding of various type of test strategies and their applicability

• Intermediate skill level in Microsoft tools like excel, PowerPoint, MS word

Desired Qualifications

• Experience using Opentext UFT /Tricentics TOSCA/ Eggplant

• Experience in Cloud Assurance Testing

• High level experience on Performance Testing process and tool sets

• CSTE / ISQTB certification

• Knowledge of DevOps and DevSecOps Methodologies

• Hands on experience in BDD with Cucumber/Selenium and Java or Python

• Hands On experience creating QE dashboards