Quality Assurance Lead

About Ascendion

• Ascendion is a full-service digital engineering solutions company.
• We make and manage software platforms and products that power growth and deliver captivating experiences to consumers and employees.
• Our engineering, cloud, data, experience design, and talent solution capabilities accelerate transformation and impact for enterprise clients.
• Headquartered in New Jersey, our workforce of 6,000+ Ascenders delivers solutions from around the globe.
• Ascendion is built differently to engineer the next.

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We have a culture built on opportunity, inclusion, and a spirit of partnership. Come, change the world with us:

• Build the coolest tech for the world’s leading brands.
• Solve complex problems – and learn new skills.
• Experience the power of transforming digital engineering for Fortune 500 clients.
• Master your craft with leading training programs and hands-on experience.

• Experience a community of change-makers!
• Join a culture of high-performing innovators with endless ideas and a passion for tech.
• Our culture is the fabric of our company, and it is what makes us unique and diverse.
• The way we share ideas, learning, experiences, successes, and joy allows everyone to be their best at Ascendion.

Position Details:

Company: Banking Giant

Job Title: QA Architect/QE Lead

Duration: 6 Months contract (contract to Hire)

Location: Onsite (Dallas, TX) (Relocation only if the candidate will come onsite from Day 1)

Interview Times: ASAP

Key Responsibilities:

• Direct the enterprise-level development of the QA strategy, methodology, discipline, and framework
• Continuously evolve the Quality Engineering strategy, approach, and execution for the consumer lending IT landscape
• Provide strategic direction and execution support for the QA leadership team across consumer loan origination, servicing, data, and system performance portfolios.
• Provide leadership and technical expertise within Quality Engineering, implementing industry-leading practices and solutions
• Provide mentorship, guidance, and support to improve quality outcomes via test automation and innovation continuously.
• Participate in interviews, induction, training, and performance evaluation of all core QE team members (leads and subject matter specialists)
• Implement and maintain quality engineering standards and govern them for high levels of adherence.
• Establish synergy with application development & support teams to adhere to QA strategy principles, guidelines, and best practices.
• Deliver continuous QA improvements, demonstrated through year-on-year improvements in the metrics/SLA, with a constant improvement quarterly plan
• Review the utilization of Capacity, Testing Tools (Functional, Automation, Performance, Data), Environment, and Knowledge levels
• Review the QA activities, leading practices, risks, and the impact to the projects/releases
• Please look over the root cause analysis of the key issues related to the quality & implement corrective and preventive (CAPA) actions.
• Review the utilization of Capacity, Testing Tools (Functional, Automation, Performance, Data), Environment, and Knowledge Assets
• Gather and present Quality Metrics, KPI, SLA, and Trends to the IT and Business stakeholders.
• Serve as an escalation point for testing and quality engineering matters and act as the primary point of contact for QE teams.

Desired Skills:

• QE experience and commercial Loan / Mortgage industry knowledge
• QA Program Management experience across multiple projects, in a global delivery model, with an innovation mindset
• Ability to deliver large and complex programs, activities, & processes - motivate a team and recognize the top talent
• Experience leading multiple aspects of testing, such as system, functional, regression, performance, etc;
• Experience with QA in agile and waterfall methodologies.
• Experience managing/developing coding of automated tests including unit, code UI, and load testing.
• Provide thought leadership regarding the adoption of emerging trends in software quality assurance.
• Proactive, strong-minded, quick thinker, and assertive personality with strong persuasion and negotiation skills
• Excellent multi-level communication skills with key stakeholders - to provide timely updates to VP, C-Suite in both IT and Business
• Providing leadership and building and maintaining strong win-win relationships across the business, IT, vendor partners and third-party providers
• Excellent coordination skills in a fast-paced multi-vendor, Agile environment
• Strong leader with experience in implementing and shaping QA processes and strategies
• Strong technical skills in functional and non-functional testing, manual and automation
• Very strong skills in Risk Management - Risk Identification and Mitigation
• Experience managing testing departments or testing functions in an outsourced, managed services model.

Salary Range:

• The salary for this position is between $150,000 – $170,000 annually.
• Factors that may affect pay within this range may include geography/market, skills, education, experience, and other qualifications of the successful candidate.

Benefits:

• The Company offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements: [medical insurance] [dental insurance] [vision insurance] [401(k) retirement plan] [long-term disability insurance] [short-term disability insurance] [5 personal day(s) accrued each calendar year.
• The Paid time off benefits meet the paid sick and safe time laws that pertain to the City/ State] [10-15 days (s) of paid vacation time] [6 paid holiday(s) and 1 floating holiday per calendar year] [Ascendion Learning Management System]

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