Quality Assurance Lead

The Observability team is looking for enthusiastic and talented Test Lead who can lead the team and drive quality on time delivery of product releases. You as a Quality Assurance Lead, who will drive the test team, improve test velocity, drive automation and ensure on time quality delivery.As the test lead, you will drive the test planning, test execution and ensure the tests have good coverage and the right level of regression testing is performed. You will ensure test velocity is improved and work with clients as needed to understand the differences in their environments. You are a good team player and you are familiar with Agile methodologies and principles and/or have experience working in an Agile team. We seek an applicant who will thrive in an open, dynamic, flexible, fun, spirited, collaborative environment; an individual who desires creative freedom and the opportunity to work in a high performing team.As a Test Lead, you will be responsible for working with the team in Testing and Automating test cases for the Observability portfolio through the full systems development lifecycle.Drive the design and implementation of sophisticated software systemsYou will work with the Product Architects, Product Managers to understand various priorities and work towards the execution.Experience in mainframe interfaces and mainframe operationsExperience in mainframe subsystems like DB2/IMS/CICS/MQCreate test plans.Execute testing following the test plan.Automate the test cases.Understand the domain , requirements and convert it to test cases and automate it.Participate in, and adhere to, professional software engineering practices using such tools and methodologies as Agile Software Development, Test Driven Development, Continuous Integration, Source Code Management (git), and GitHub.Ensure good code coverage. Support bug fixes during testing and deploy to target environments.Participate in the planning, creation and execution of automated test cases and load/performance testing. Create/maintain technical documentation.Hands on experience in handling and debugging customer issues, work with L2 support team.Maintain a high level of proficiency with Computer Science/Software Engineering knowledge and contribute to the technical skills growth of other team members.You will be providing vigilance and compliance to various software engineering, support and release processes e.g security, stack upgrades that are free of vulnerabilities etc.