What You'll Do
- QA Strategy & Leadership: Develop, implement, and manage the overall QA strategy, methodology, and processes across the organization
- Team Management: Lead, mentor, and grow a team of QA engineers, including task assignment, performance reviews, and professional development
- Test Planning: Oversee the creation of comprehensive test plans, test cases, and test scripts for functional, regression, performance, and user acceptance testing (UAT)
- Process Improvement: Continuously evaluate and improve QA processes, incorporating automation, new tools, and best practices to increase efficiency and test coverage
- Stakeholder Communication: Act as the primary point of contact for all quality-related matters, providing regular reporting on test progress, defect metrics, and product quality to senior management and project stakeholders
- Risk Management: Identify potential risks to product quality and timeline and develop mitigation strategies
- Tool & Resource Management: Research, recommend, and manage QA tools and technologies (e.g., test management suites like Jira, TestRail; automation tools like Selenium, Cypress)
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with Product Management, Development, and DevOps teams to ensure quality is built into the product from the earliest stages of development (shift-left testing)
- Release Governance: Define and enforce quality gates and criteria that must be met for a product to be released to production
Requirements
- Experience: 8+ years in software quality assurance, with at least 2+ years in a QA leadership or management role. Data quality assurance experience is highly preferred
- Deep understanding of software development life cycle (SDLC) and QA methodologies (Agile, Scrum)
- Proven experience with test automation frameworks and tools
- Strong knowledge of software testing types, techniques, and best practices
- Experience with API testing tools (e.g., Postman)
- Basic understanding of programming/scripting is a plus
- Soft Skills: Exceptional leadership and people management skills. Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making abilities. Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills to effectively collaborate with technical and non-technical teams
Nice to Have
- Life science experience is preferred
- Data product or project experience is preferred
Perks & Benefits
- Grants for fitness and communication
- Healthy, free, provided snacks
