QA Lead
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Summary
QA Lead in Colombo, Sri Lanka who guides test strategy and quality processes for a team embedded on a legacy platform, balancing exploratory and automated testing within CI/CD while mentoring quality engineers. Core stack includes C#, Reqnroll, NUnit/xUnit, RestSharp, Playwright, and k6.
- Collaborate with product owners, developers, and stakeholders to define clear acceptance criteria including cross functional requirements
- Promote and advocate for quality throughout SDLC applying shift left and shift right quality mindset.
- Guide the test strategy for the team and contribute to the overall departmental test strategy.
- Demonstrate adaptability to the test approach based on evolving team and project needs.
- Define and implement efficient testing processes, methodologies, and best practices.
- Balance exploratory and automated testing efforts for optimal test coverage.
- Drive the team to create a reliable automated test suite with strong reporting capabilities that ensures simple, effective analysis of failures
- Integrate testing processes seamlessly into CI/CD workflows for rapid and reliable software delivery.
- Encourage and apply Test Driven Development (TDD) and pair programming practices.
- Foster a culture of continuous improvement and adaptation within their development team.
- Share new and innovative ideas about quality and agile techniques with the delivery team and the Quality community.
- Mentor members of the team and fellow Quality Engineers
Skills & Ability
- Possess strong knowledge and experience in performance testing, UI automation, API testing, contract testing.
- Understand existing alerting and monitoring dashboards, and suggest changes that make product quality visible
- Thrive in a cross-functional team, collaborating closely with developers, Product Owners, Agile delivery leads, QEs, Engineering Managers and other stakeholders.
- Be embedded in one of two teams working on the legacy platform.
- Take ownership of testing features and bug fixes and support release readiness across multiple business domains.
- Communicate proactively about risks, blockers, and test coverage.
Knowledge & Experience
- API Frameworks
- C#
- Reqnroll
- NUnit / XUnit
- RestSharp
- UI Frameworks
- Playwright (TypeScript)
- Playwright (C#)
- Performance Frameworks
- k6 (nice to have)
- Familiarity with Azure DevOps / cloud tools
- Insurance domain knowledge nice to have.