QA Manager

Mobile Integration Workgroup is looking for a QA Manager to lead our QA members from a quality assurance perspective. Are you looking for opportunities for your efforts to make a major impact while working on a startup software application? Are you excited about testing applications built on new technologies such as ReactJS, NoSQL, SaaS, Microservices and mobility testing across Android and iOS?

As an integral part within a cross-functional, agile team you will be leading testing efforts for all facets of the application along with managing and mentoring other QA members. We are a small team passionate about providing the best service and products possible. We are looking for someone who is proactive, likes to engage with the team, and drive quality regardless of role. Being a small team driven by quality and individuality, plenty of opportunities exist to develop innovative testing strategies and tools, and to drive engineering improvements across feature teams.

Who you are:

• You are an influential leader with a strong QA background.
• You have a good understanding of web and mobile technologies and can test large, complex consumer facing web and mobile applications that are scalable and resilient.
• You have hands-on test automation experience following industrial standards and understand the roles of test automation in an Agile environment.
• You don’t need training wheels and can drive and define quality initiatives for the entire team.
• You have an obsessive drive towards quality and have strategies to achieve it.
• You care! This isn’t just a job, you strive to make life better for you and your teammates through improvements to the quality assurance processes.
• You are looking for an opportunity to make a lasting impact! We are on a mission, and wants you to help us to deliver quality products.
• You enjoy working with brilliant people. We have assembled a team of the top engineers who you will be working with, and learning from on a daily basis.

Responsibilities:

• Be the primary point of contact for the QA team and responsible for coordinating all testing efforts.
• Foster Agile QA testing methodologies, oversee the development and execution of all testing activities.
• Establish quality control standards for a consistent approach and results.
• Create a test automation strategy and standards to bring our testing processes to a high degree of automation.
• More than an individual contributor, you will provide monitorship to other QA members along with managing aspects of the members.
• Authors test strategies and test cases, authors manual and automated tests, and debugs test and production code.
• Assist in developing and maintaining test automation for all aspects of assigned features including core scenarios, performance, reliability, and stress.
• Participate in Sprint Planning and design discussions with the development team to ensure features are designed and implemented meeting testability requirements.
• Understands how products should function, how product function matches the desired user experience design, and is an advocate for the end users in the engineering process.
• Has a clear vision of optimal test strategies and how they should be implemented.
• Improves productivity for the overall team by creating tools or processes that eliminate net workload.

Required Experience:

• 8+ Years of experience as a QA.
• 5+ Years of experience working on designing and creating automated tests.
• 3+ Years of experience as a QA lead or manager.
• A proven track record at managing or mentoring members within your team.
• Java development skills (Java 8/9/10 Java EE).
• Hands-on experience developing and maintaining automation scripts following industrial standards.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, reporting, analytical and problem solving skills.
• Proficient with Agile testing methodologies and best practices.

Desired Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or similar technical field.

• Experienced in mobile device testing (iOS and Android).
• Strong knowledge of QA methodology and tools, with demonstrated experience in test automation
• Coding experience with automated testing frameworks, tools, services, and physical devices.
• 2-3 years of experience working with Selenium. Experience with Appium would be a plus.
• Experienced in end to end application to device layer testing which includes UI, interfaces, back-end and hardware layers.
• Deal well with ambiguous/undefined problems; ability to think abstractly

Mobile Integration Workgroup, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances.