Job Purpose
Purpose Quality lead has end-to-end responsibility for ensuring technology product quality including feature testing, integration testing, QA best practices, QA team hiring, mentoring and managing, QA planning, QA automation, rollout and production quality.
Key Accountabilities & Support Actions
Technology strategy and design
- Know the domain / business : Stay on top of business strategy, customer value prop and technology enablement for respective domains
- Technology strategy and plan : Stay on top of technology objectives, architecture paradigms, build vs. buy decisions and technology plans
- QA ways of working : Ensure adoption of QA best practices within team
- Own technology and system integration QA
QA team building
Call out hiring needs for respective team and co-own hiringCall out vendor engagement needs and co-own vendor selection, onboarding and managingKnow the team : Understand and leverage / address the strengths, weaknesses and risks with different teams and individuals (vendor side also)Train, mentor and motivate the respective QA teamsResponsible for team feedback, performance reviews, growth paths and retention of QA team membersQA execution
Own QA goals, milestones and execution in collaboration with product, engineering, support and program managerOwn QA of functionality, system integration, usability and NFRSystem level functionality QA via establishing and auditing engineering testing best practicesEnd to end integration QA via QA team executionNFR –setting standards and ensuring compliance across Directly responsible for quality of feature roll out, production quality, user experience and stabilizationOwn production quality – track production issues and create a feedback loop to improve feature, usability or processOwn techno-functional design, code quality, flexible / modular design and rules driven behavior for QA automation