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Form of work Client: Brokerage Firm
Location: Wilmington, DE
Position: Agile QA Lead
Duration: 6 month contract with likely extensions
Rate: $50/hr C2C MAX
This role reports to the BAPI group (middleware / web services) in Brokerage Firm. Manager is looking for someone who can work across many different projects and scrum teams to make sure that their teams are utilizing the best practices of Agile Quality Engineering including Shift Left testing (initiating testing as early as possible in each Sprint). This person will be responsible for organizing the testing for each sprint, and should have a solid understanding of Java code as well as a very technical mindset to understand the different environments or types of testing that they will need to use for each projects.
Candidate should have a LinkedIN Profile, and a resume that is not more than 2-3 pages.
Administration
· Support Quality Assurance goals
· Adhere to all Brokerage Firm, Barclaycard, BCUS and BTG standards, policies and governance practices
· Self-directed and able to motivate or direct QA team
Required
· Programming experience is a must
· You are a developer, first and foremost.
· Strong automation testing skills using Java, JUnit, Cucumber
· Writing code to test code: UI and API level testing
· Knowledge and experience defining requirements for and selecting test frameworks
· Hands on experience with test automation tools and/or frameworks, such as Selenium, Cucumber and Open source testing tools/framework
· Understands change control process and release management to support enterprise level projects
· SDLC and Software Processes
· Strong understanding of QA best practices in an agile environment and in DevOps Model.
· Has experience in Design, build, and test critical and complex custom designed, multitier, business applications that use a wide range of the very latest technologies;
· Knowledge of test driven development (TDD), behavior driven development (BDD), Shift-left testing and continuous integration
· Created Test Cases, Test Plans
· Bug reporting / triage / prioritization
· Experience as responsible for guiding quality on production release
· Experience with Functional, load, stress, user interaction and resiliency/nonfunctional testing
· Best qualified candidate must have minimum eight years (10+ preferred) software quality engineer experience in Java on large software systems.
· Strong experience working in an agile development environment, preferably Scrum
· Domain background of Banking / Credit Card industry
· Experience with TSYS
Desired
· Multi-faceted candidate who is a technical self-starter, enjoys coding, architecture, understands DevOps integration support, learning new technologies and engaging with multiple teams.
· Flexibility and a learning posture (desire to learn and improve)
· Disciplined, organized, responsible, have full focus and dedication for the success of every single project.
· Communicative and empathetic, a team worker with a can do attitude and strong work ethic.
· Open and curious minded
· Experience in one of more test automation tools/automated testing programing stack is great plus like SOAPUI Pro, Groovy/Java/Python Programming
· Experience with Jenkins/Hudson/SONAR/Fisheye/Crucible
· Understanding of contract testing and cloud applications
Location: Wilmington, DE
Position: Agile QA Lead
Duration: 6 month contract with likely extensions
Rate: $50/hr C2C MAX
This role reports to the BAPI group (middleware / web services) in Brokerage Firm. Manager is looking for someone who can work across many different projects and scrum teams to make sure that their teams are utilizing the best practices of Agile Quality Engineering including Shift Left testing (initiating testing as early as possible in each Sprint). This person will be responsible for organizing the testing for each sprint, and should have a solid understanding of Java code as well as a very technical mindset to understand the different environments or types of testing that they will need to use for each projects.
Candidate should have a LinkedIN Profile, and a resume that is not more than 2-3 pages.
Administration
· Support Quality Assurance goals
· Adhere to all Brokerage Firm, Barclaycard, BCUS and BTG standards, policies and governance practices
· Self-directed and able to motivate or direct QA team
Required
· Programming experience is a must
· You are a developer, first and foremost.
· Strong automation testing skills using Java, JUnit, Cucumber
· Writing code to test code: UI and API level testing
· Knowledge and experience defining requirements for and selecting test frameworks
· Hands on experience with test automation tools and/or frameworks, such as Selenium, Cucumber and Open source testing tools/framework
· Understands change control process and release management to support enterprise level projects
· SDLC and Software Processes
· Strong understanding of QA best practices in an agile environment and in DevOps Model.
· Has experience in Design, build, and test critical and complex custom designed, multitier, business applications that use a wide range of the very latest technologies;
· Knowledge of test driven development (TDD), behavior driven development (BDD), Shift-left testing and continuous integration
· Created Test Cases, Test Plans
· Bug reporting / triage / prioritization
· Experience as responsible for guiding quality on production release
· Experience with Functional, load, stress, user interaction and resiliency/nonfunctional testing
· Best qualified candidate must have minimum eight years (10+ preferred) software quality engineer experience in Java on large software systems.
· Strong experience working in an agile development environment, preferably Scrum
· Domain background of Banking / Credit Card industry
· Experience with TSYS
Desired
· Multi-faceted candidate who is a technical self-starter, enjoys coding, architecture, understands DevOps integration support, learning new technologies and engaging with multiple teams.
· Flexibility and a learning posture (desire to learn and improve)
· Disciplined, organized, responsible, have full focus and dedication for the success of every single project.
· Communicative and empathetic, a team worker with a can do attitude and strong work ethic.
· Open and curious minded
· Experience in one of more test automation tools/automated testing programing stack is great plus like SOAPUI Pro, Groovy/Java/Python Programming
· Experience with Jenkins/Hudson/SONAR/Fisheye/Crucible
· Understanding of contract testing and cloud applications
