Title-Assistant Director/QA Engineering director

Duration-6 Months

Location-New York, NY

Duties-

-Responsible for planning, coordinating, and directing test activities for data products released on the Snowflake Enterprise Data Platform
-Provide ongoing coaching to direct reports including setting goals and objectives, writing performance reviews and holding regular one-on-one meetings.
-Drive test automation strategy and leverage tools for validating data and application functionality.
-Document and analyze test results and recommend corrective action.
-Isolate, reproduce, manage, and maintain defects and test case databases, and verify fixes.
-Support user acceptance testing conducted by business partners or end users.
-Identify opportunities to reduce testing time and effort by automating repeatable tests.

Qualification-

-Knowledge in cloud data warehousing technologies such as AWS, Azure, Snowflake.
-Experience with Enterprise Database technologies like SQL Server, Oracle, Data Integration (Informatica, DataStage), business intelligence, and reporting tools.
-Experience creating test automation frameworks and test cases
-Demonstrated experience performing functional, end-to-end and regression testing.
-Experience defining and implementing test management tools and processes.
-Ability to create, analyze, and publish quality metrics and measures across teams to communicate release quality, and deliver status updates to senior management.
-Experience recommending and implementing best practices to improve quality engineering workflows and increase team productivity.
-Strong understanding of software quality principles and processes.
-Experience with test data creation
-Experience designing and implementing test plans.
-Experience with test management tools (e.g., TestRail, XRay, Qtest, Quality Center).
-Experience with test automation frameworks (e.g., Selenium, Cypress, Puppeteer, Playwright).
-Attention to detail and ability to identify, isolate and document defects

-Superior verbal and written communication skills for both technical and non-technical audiences.

-Proficient in SQL and additional programming languages such as Python, Java etc.

-Strong knowledge of agile practices and experience with agile planning tools (e.g., Jira)

-Proficient in Microsoft Office (Required)

-A bachelor's degree and 7 years of professional work experience (or equivalent experience) is required.

-7 years of experience working in a quality assurance role for cloud/on-prem data warehouses
-5 years management experience overseeing 5 to 10 QA Engineers is required.
-3 years of Healthcare data solutions development experience
-Performs work in compliance within specified warranty requirements and returns defective equipment or parts to maintenance inventory, document customer repairs, maintains and restocks assigned parts inventory
-Accurately and promptly record incidents and service request ticket work logs and service restoration activities in the incident management system with the date, time and restoration activities summaries

-Maintains, follows, and consistently demonstrates a general knowledge of EITS and New York City Health Hospitals guidelines, processes, practices, and procedures