What are the responsibilities and job description for the QA Automation Lead position at BESTPEGASUS LLC?
Title: QA Automation Lead
Location: Albany/Rensselaer, NY (Remote)
Duration: 18 Months
Client: State of NY OCFS
Experience: 10 Years
MOI: Virtual
Role & Responsibilities (Day-to-Day Tasks)
- Manage testing activities including UI automation, integration, performance, scalability, regression, and user acceptance testing (UAT).
- Plan and track testing.
- Define testing roles/responsibilities, testing cycles, processes, and movement across environments.
- Define and oversee test environments.
- Schedule tests and report testing status.
- Ensure requirements and deliverables are verified and validated at each test phase and at final acceptance.
Required Skills for the Project
- Test planning, design, development, and execution based on business requirements and functional specifications.
- Coordination, tracking, and analysis of testing activities.
- QA leadership on large, highly technical projects.
- Functional and performance testing tools.
- Hands-on recording and scripting of automated functional tests.
Mandatory Skills for the Project
- Minimum 7 years planning, designing, developing, and executing test plans based on business requirements and functional specifications.
- Minimum 5 years coordinating, tracking, and analyzing testing activities.
- Minimum 5 years as a test/QA lead on large and highly technical projects.
- Minimum 3 years using functional and performance test tools.
- Minimum 3 years hands-on recording and scripting automated functional tests.
- At least part-time throughout the contract; full-time during State-defined and approved periods such as testing.
- Onsite as needed during development, testing, and deployment.