What are the responsibilities and job description for the QA Lead position at Blackstone Talent Group?
Job Description
Blackstone Talent Group, an award-winning technology consulting and talent agency is seeking a QA Lead to join our Client's team.
Our client seeks a Quality Assurance (Test) Lead to manage end-to-end testing activities for our Enterprise Applications department managing different IT ERP/CRM systems, ensuring high-quality deliverables, compliance with company standards, and ensuring execution of test cycles that includes Quote to Cash (Q2C), Procure to Pay (P2P), Financials and other Integration process flows.
The ideal candidate would have engineered-to-order domain expertise, experience in test planning and execution, defect management, and stakeholder coordination. Additionally, exposure to test automation, including Tosca, is preferred.
Roles & Responsibilities
Experience:
Other Preferred Requirements:
Blackstone Talent Group is a wholly owned subsidiary of Blackstone Technology Group, a global IT services and software firm that implements technological solutions across commercial industry verticals and the US Federal Government. Blackstone's global talent augmentation practice was founded in 1998. Blackstone Talent Group has offices in San Francisco, Denver, Houston, Colorado Springs, and Washington, DC. We specialize in providing clients the best talent across a variety of industries and sectors.
Blackstone Talent Group, an award-winning technology consulting and talent agency is seeking a QA Lead to join our Client's team.
Our client seeks a Quality Assurance (Test) Lead to manage end-to-end testing activities for our Enterprise Applications department managing different IT ERP/CRM systems, ensuring high-quality deliverables, compliance with company standards, and ensuring execution of test cycles that includes Quote to Cash (Q2C), Procure to Pay (P2P), Financials and other Integration process flows.
The ideal candidate would have engineered-to-order domain expertise, experience in test planning and execution, defect management, and stakeholder coordination. Additionally, exposure to test automation, including Tosca, is preferred.
Roles & Responsibilities
- Develop and implement test strategies, test plans, and test cases for different ERP/CRM applications.
- Ensure comprehensive functionality, integration, regression, performance, SIT and UAT testing.
- Validate APIs, services, and map layers through manual and automated test cases.
- Perform cross-functional and cross-platform testing to ensure consistent applications performance of new and existing process flows.
- Work closely with developers, business analysts, and teams to align testing activities with project requirements.
- Identify, document, and track defects using JIRA, or similar tools.
- Perform root cause analysis (RCA) and defect triaging, ensuring timely resolution.
- Ensure compliance with QA best practices, testing standards, and Manufacturing/IT industry regulations.
- Provide test progress reports and key metrics to IT and business stakeholders.
- Contribute to test automation initiatives where applicable, particularly in API testing, ERP/CRP Process Flows, Integrations and workflow validation.
- Exposure to any testing automation tools, like Selenium, for improving test efficiency.
- Support automation efforts for repetitive validation tasks, though manual testing remains the primary focus.
- Lead and mentor a quality testing team
- Ensure effective collaboration and knowledge sharing with IT cross-functional teams and business stakeholders.
- Coordinate with internal teams, third-party vendors, and offshore units to execute test cycles sticking to the project plan and milestones.
- Engage in requirement analysis, business requirements and Functional/Technical design discussions, and test signoffs to ensure business expectations are achieved.
Experience:
- 10 years of relevant QA technical experience required
- 5 years of experience with Automation testing frameworks (Cypress, Selenium etc.) required
Other Preferred Requirements:
- Proficient with version control systems
- Familiarity with Agile testing processes
- Strong understanding of CRM (Salesforce) and ERP Application concepts (frontend versus backend, APIs, frameworks, etc.)
- Working knowledge of developing test scripts and ability to test the scripts in modern automation testing frameworks
- Experience with API automation is a plus
- Knowledge of Test-Driven Development or Behavior Driven Development
Blackstone Talent Group is a wholly owned subsidiary of Blackstone Technology Group, a global IT services and software firm that implements technological solutions across commercial industry verticals and the US Federal Government. Blackstone's global talent augmentation practice was founded in 1998. Blackstone Talent Group has offices in San Francisco, Denver, Houston, Colorado Springs, and Washington, DC. We specialize in providing clients the best talent across a variety of industries and sectors.