About the role

  • Principal QA Engineer at Merkle ensuring software quality through test strategies and leading engineering teams. Drive continuous improvement and adopt new testing methodologies and technologies.

Responsibilities

  • Manage and lead a team of test engineers and test leads, providing guidance, mentorship, and support
  • Drive the adoption of new testing tools, methodologies, and technologies to improve testing efficiency and product quality
  • Define and implement comprehensive test strategies aligned with project goals and timelines
  • Defining and publishing quality metrics across various stakeholders as well as the entire team
  • Advocate for continuous improvement in test processes, methodologies, and tools
  • Develop detailed test plans and test cases and implement tests that cover the functional and non-functional requirements of the system
  • Sets up test environments, initial designs test plans, develops test cases/scenarios/usage cases, and executes these cases
  • Plans & initiates non-functional aspects of testing like performance testing
  • Implement and oversee the test process, ensuring thorough documentation of test results
  • Conduct test automation, including the creation and maintenance of automated test framework
  • Communicate effectively with senior stakeholders, providing detailed reports on QA activities and project status
  • Collaborate with development and product teams to resolve issues and improve the overall quality of the product
  • Conduct Audit of code repositories and documentation
  • Participates in communication with other departments to coordinate test and implementation activities

Requirements

  • Minimum 10 to 14 years of experience
  • Proven experience in managing, leading and mentoring a team of test engineers as well as team leads
  • Developing test plans, implementing test processes, recording results, and publishing to stakeholders
  • Strong expertise in defining test strategy, establishing optimal test patterns, implementing key quality metrics and reporting and publishing those metrics across various stakeholders
  • Knowledge of core testing concepts like Shift-Left strategy, Test Pyramid, TDD/BDD etc
  • Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail
  • Experience of improving quality in a product and understanding the quality needs of key stakeholders
  • Identifies potential process improvement areas, suggests options, and recommends approaches
  • Strong expertise in full SDLC, including test standards, code reviews, test data management, test methods and test techniques
  • Strong Experience with automation tools such as Selenium or Playwright
  • Strong Experience with automation framework like Codecept.js or Serenity BDD or Cucumber
  • Experience on non-functional tests like performance/load/volume testing by using tools like JMeter
  • Hands-on experience in interacting and working with both technical and non-technical peers like Product owners, Business Analysts, Engineering Leads etc
  • Strong communication skills (Written/verbal) and ability to help resolve problems for your team

Benefits

  • Health insurance
  • Paid time off

Job title

Principal QA Engineer

Job type

Experience level

Lead

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Location requirements

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