Lead Software Test Engineer

About the position

The position involves providing product insight, organizational perspective, and technical leadership to the software test engineers within the QA organization. The role requires interaction with the VP/Manager of Test Engineering to establish product testing priorities, estimate the level of effort, and plan resources accordingly. The individual will also develop appropriate testing assignments and assess the performance of the software test engineers. Additionally, the role includes participating in testing as an individual contributor to establish and maintain expertise on products developed at Cadent, as well as participating in project meetings with the product team and development engineers as required.

Responsibilities

• Provide product insight, organizational perspective and technical leadership to the software test engineers within the QA organization.
• Interact with the VP/Manager of Test Engineering to establish product testing priorities, estimate level of effort and plan resources accordingly.
• Develop appropriate testing assignments and assess the performance of the software test engineers.
• Participate in testing as an individual contributor to establish and maintain expertise on products developed at Cadent.
• Participate in project meetings with product team and development engineers as required.
• Develop appropriate test methodology and metrics to define quality for products, components, features and enhancements.
• Write product test documentation (test plans and test cases) based on product specifications.
• Develop appropriate functional, regression and system tests to assure product quality.
• Develop, modify and maintain a comprehensive suite of automated test cases for our product platform using open source test tools.
• Identify, communicate and follow-up with engineering on issues discovered during the test process.
• Participate in release deployments to the production environment and troubleshooting production issues.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, Information Technology, Engineering (any), or related fields.
• Five years of progressive experience in related occupation.
• Experience in SQA testing working on multi-tier web-based applications built using JAVA/J2EE tech stack.

Benefits

• Standard benefits