Quality Assurance Lead

Quality Assurance Lead (Test Automation Lead)

About Staizen

At Staizen, we live and breathe transformation. We support and guide our clients through the toughest and nitty-gritty parts of building, modernizing, and running digital products and platforms. Transformation is not easy and to be the best partners, we challenge ourselves to constantly practice what we preach in the way we do, build and lead.

The name Staizen is short for "State of Kaizen", inspired by the Kaizen philosophy of continuous improvement. We are all about getting 1% better every day because sustainable transformation is not about the big bang but manifests in the daily choices that we commit to do every single day.

What we offer

• Get the chance to work on transformation at scale missions for complex industries such as banking, e-commerce, insurance

• Be part of our internal product development and build the next generation of productivity tools for customers

• Be part of exciting communities where you can collaborate, grow and learn across the board

• We are remote-firstwith global operations across Belgium, Luxembourg, the Philippines, Lille, Singapore, and Cyprus, with optional co-working spaces for the team

Perks & Benefits

• 1% better yearly budget - your personal growth & learning fund

• Co-working spaces- for the times when you want to spice up and change environments

• Remote set-up budget - to get you up and running wherever you decide to work

• Team-up budget - Monthly lunch/dinner budget for physical or virtual team bonding

• Good medical coverage- so you don't have to worry about your health

• Flexitime - We follow the standard business hours, but we trust you to find your most productive time

We are looking for a Quality Assurance Lead that is detail-oriented with a creative thinking. The ideal candidate will be experienced in planning, developing, and executing comprehensive test. You will work closely with the development to understand the applications features and architecture, to develop test cases, to ensure that all levels of the system architecture are thoroughly tested before releasing into production. You will lead the QA community, sharing your knowledge and experience with other test automation engineers.

Responsibilities

• Take over the leadership role for the cross-team QA Community.

• Supporting QAs in communication with internal and external stakeholders.

• Helping to set up proper workload assignments and respective priorities.

• Defining and maintaining test coverage KPIs.

• Supporting development teams in terms of testing.

• Preparing test plans and test scenarios.

• Design, build and maintain automated tests.

• Reduce the backlog of manual regression tests Improve current automation practices by introducing best practices.

• Perform manual and exploratory testing in the areas where there is an absence of any automation.

• Actively analyse and improve stories/tests.

• Taking part in code review for automation tests to help improve team's knowledge and to suggest improvements.

• Contributing in the QA Community of Practice to share the development principles and best practices.

Requirements

• 5+ years proven track record in test automation preferably in an international and multicultural environment working in classing and virtual teams.

• 2+ years proven experience in leading QA Communities or managing QA Teams.

• Experience with Agile methodologies Scrum, XP) for software development and DevOps.

• Experience with Performance testing.

• Programming experience with Cucumber, Selenium and Java.

• Experience with API testing and/or frontend testing.

• Experience with CI/CD tools such as Git, Jenkins, Jira and Confluence.

• Experience with BDD and Gherkin driven agile methodology.

• Strong knowledge of manual testing theory and software development process.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills in English with both technical and non-technical personnel.

Work set-up: on-site in Singapore

So, what do you think?

Are you ready to drive impact and grow with us?

We're looking for forward thinkers who thrive in an international environment. We have openings across our various communities - Frontend, Backend, DevOps, UX/UI, Quality Assurance, Data & Analytics, Delivery (Project Management & Facilitation) and Engineering Management. We can't wait to meet you, drop us a message, and let's chat