firstPRO, Inc · 22 hours ago
Lead SDET QA Engineer (C#)
Somerville, MA
Full-time
Onsite
Lead/Staff
$130K/yr - $155K/yr
10+ years expfirstPRO, Inc is a company that specializes in software development and quality assurance. They are seeking a Lead SDET QA Engineer to manage and supervise a team of SDET QA professionals, ensuring high-quality software through effective testing strategies and automation practices.
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Hiring Manager
William Carroll
Responsibilities
Promotes automation first approach to test plans that incorporate both positive and negative scenarios
Identifies functional interdependencies between squads that optimizes testing of related/dependent features that are cross-squad and cross-team
Participates and leads in postmortem activities to better understand and automate escapes and implement process improvements
Understands each tier of the testing pyramid and the how to use the different automation solutions for them
Helps ensure both stories and epics meet both Definition of Ready (DoR) and Definition of Done (DoD)
Applies test-first BDD and TDD best practices
Experience with integrating AI into test automation solution
A vision for how Generative AI can transform QA
Ideas for client-centric testing that includes persona and workflow based test strategy
Has a vision for how to make Leverages AI to enhance automation and productivity while ensuring high quality coding standards
Designs\refactors automation to validate the intended functionality using common classes and shared configs that keeps the framework lean and fast
Able to automate and do code reviews at all levels of the test pyramid
Ensures automated tests are incorporated into CI/CD pipeline and ensure test results are monitored
Be a hands on lead and automate and validate end to end system/functional workflows within multiple components
Demonstrates understanding of Agile principles and supports the overall delivery for product releases
Able to accurately estimate stories and one’s own capacity
Processes retrospectives and applies Kaizen principles to daily work
Has business domain experience and extends business domain through purposeful study
Has client centered approach and promotes customer personas and application workflows as a testing practice
Able to identify domain knowledge gaps within the team and recommend individualized training options
Demonstrates analytical, systems and innovative thinking
Acquires subject matter expertise in application under test to a level of demoing and training others
Learns the appropriate uses of, architecture for, and construction of test frameworks and tooling
Suggests and implements improvements to the test framework
Work with multiple frameworks; REST/API, GUI, performance, ETL/big data as well as custom test solutions
Incorporates AI and new technologies into our framework that boost both productivity and product quality
Understands the production support model
Understands how production environments are deployed and configured
Prioritizes production issue troubleshooting and delegates to the team
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's/Master's degree in the Hard Sciences (Computer Science, Math, Engineering preferred)
10+ years of software development or automation development or technical team leadership experience
Demonstrable experience with some of CI/CD, BDD/TDD, C#, Relational Databases and Python/JavaScript
Experience with performance tools like Neoload/JMeter/Etc
Familiarity with Playwright
Experience managing technical automation QA teams in an agile and CI/CD environment
Finance industry experience
Experience using generative AI within a development environment
Preferred
Experience with integrating AI into test automation solution
A vision for how Generative AI can transform QA
Ideas for client-centric testing that includes persona and workflow based test strategy
Company
firstPRO, Inc
firstPRO provides talent delivery strategies that attack critical gaps surrounding today's modern workforce.
51-200 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageLeadership Team
April Nagel
CEO firstPRO, Inc.
Phil Nagel
CEO
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