Hybrid SDET Team Lead

at Verisk

• Job title: SDET Team Lead
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: $116,000 - $121,000 per year
• Degree requirement: No Education Requirement
• Tech skills: SDLC
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Lehi, United States

About the role

• SDET Team Lead overseeing a QA team ensuring quality applications for insurance market professionals. Collaborating with developers and stakeholders through all SDLC stages in a hybrid setup.

Responsibilities

• Lead, maintain and facilitate a highly effective team focused on QA and test automation for application(s).
• Oversight of writing and maintaining automated test cases.
• Testing and validating the application under test.
• Developing test plans for features, including automated and manual steps as needed.
• Researching issues and informing stakeholders on status.
• Creating innovative technical solutions to validate the application under test.
• Involved in every stage of the SDLC, from design to final validation of the application.
• Collaborating with your team, senior engineers, and other leadership to ensure the systems meet expectations.
• Facilitating the management of the project through agile ceremonies, creating and prioritizing tasks, and holding your team accountable to execute according to deadlines.
• Maintaining and capturing Quality and performance metrics about your team for reporting to higher-level leaders.
• Hiring, training, mentoring, performance reviews, resolving interpersonal conflicts, providing regular feedback, and hands-on leadership to each of your direct reports.

Requirements

• Takes pride in supporting the professional growth of others.
• Experience managing software teams and projects.
• Proficient with Quality Assurance techniques and best practices
• Strong knowledge of C# or other object-oriented languages.
• Solid understanding of both automated and manual testing strategies and employing them in complex environments.
• Strong knowledge of software and system architecture.
• Strong knowledge of every phase of the software development lifecycle.
• Builds strong working relationships across the organization.
• Responsive to messages and acts proactively as required.
• Strong ability to synthesize information and present it to higher-level leaders clearly and concisely.
• Able to keep up with latest trends in software development and automated testing.
• Acts as a multiplier for their team and inspires their team to be their best.
• Can provide accurate, timely and critical feedback to their direct reports.
• Can receive critical feedback and use it to grow and improve.
• Takes decisive action when faced with challenging situations.
• Can develop long and short-term strategies (roadmaps) and use them to build a plan their team can follow.
• Good presentation skills, effective at communicating information to groups of people.
• Must be able to work hybrid in-office two days per week.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills with a commitment to continuous improvement.
• Minimum 3 years of relevant experience

Benefits

• Health Insurance
• a Retirement Plan
• Disability benefits
• a Paid Time Off program
• competitive total rewards package including base salary determined based on role, experience, skill set, and location.