[Remote] Lead Software QA Analyst

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Oceaneering is hiring a Lead Software QA Analyst to oversee its QA team and manage the end-to-end testing lifecycle. The role leads test planning, manual and automated testing, defect management, reporting, and process improvement in collaboration with cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Assign testing activities across the QA team
• Provide direction to QA engineers and help to remove blockers
• Ensure critical testing, regression, integration and UAT-support activities are adequately covered
• Co-ordinate QA activities with development team, product owners and other stakeholders
• Monitor progress and act as the primary point of contact for stakeholders regarding defect status and testing updates
• Mentor and develop team members
• Evaluate and integrate new tools and methodologies to enhance testing outcomes
• Collaborate with product managers and development teams to understand project requirements and define comprehensive test plans
• Design test strategies, including scope, approach, resources, and schedule estimation, to ensure thorough test coverage
• Identify and prioritize test cases based on risk analysis and business impact
• Create detailed, comprehensive, and well-structured test cases and test scenarios based on functional specifications and user stories
• Define test data and environment setup requirements for effective test execution
• Maintain test case repositories and ensure documentation accuracy and completeness
• Execute manual test cases to validate software functionality, performance, usability, and compatibility across different platforms and environments
• Identify, isolate, document, and track software defects using bug tracking tools (Jira) and collaborate with development teams to resolve issues
• Perform ad-hoc testing as needed to uncover unexpected behaviors and usability issues
• Conduct regression testing to ensure the stability of software releases and verify that new features and enhancements do not adversely impact existing functionalities
• Automate repetitive manual test cases where applicable to improve testing efficiency and effectiveness
• Participate in peer reviews of test cases, test plans, and other testing artifacts to ensure quality standards are met
• Continuously monitor and evaluate testing processes and methodologies to identify areas for improvement and optimization
• Develop and document scalable automated testing suites
• Convert manual tests to automated tests
• Develop, document, run, and report on automatic tests
• Ensure that the Safety policies and procedures are understood and adhered to as far as is reasonably practicable in order to ensure a safe working environment
• Responsible for ensuring the QA team is organized, effective, and applying consistent quality standards

Skills

• Minimum 5 years of experience working with software testing methodologies, best practices, test automation, using tools like Cucumber, REST-assured, Selenium, Postman etc
• Minimum 5 years of experience testing and understanding complex engineering applications
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with keen attention to detail
• Strong communication and collaboration skills to work effectively in cross-functional teams
• Able to perform cross-browser/load/performance testing automatically
• Must be fluent in the English language
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States
• Gives and receives constructive feedback
• Ensures that regular consistent communication takes place within area of responsibility
• Ensures that important information from management is shared with employees and others as appropriate
• Self-motivated, confident and passionate
• Strong organizational and documentation skills
• Provides vision and inspiration to peers and subordinates
• Able to make decisions in conflicting situations
• Should be comfortable with ambiguity
• Able to manage a wide variety of discrete functions and services
• Able to set priorities in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment
• Demonstrated experience leading, mentoring and coordinating the activities of a software QA/testing team
• Agile methodologies and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines
• XRay Test Management
• Selenium
• C# Programming

Benefits

• This position is based in the US and may be remote or hybrid.

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