QA Lead, Vice President

Primary responsibilities

• Planning: understanding of the requirements, create test plan, test automation feasibility analysis estimation, schedule and plan
• Test preparation: analysis & understanding of scenarios and application flows, test scenarios and cases preparation for new functionality, test data preparation and manual execution of test cases to understand the flows
• Test execution: execution new functional test cases for the current release, execution of manual and automated regression pack, log defects and retest fixed defects
• Test scripting & integration: test script development as per BlackRock framework, dry run of the automation scripts, Integrate automation with CI/CD pipeline, one round of full run of automated scripts
• User documentation: create/update user manuals
• Understanding and supporting existing systems, and resolve operations issues while working with other engineering staff located across the globe
• Being curious and eager to learn new things, with a healthy disrespect for the status quo
• Willing to embrace work outside of your comfort zone, and open to mentorship from others; you make mistakes, but learn from them
• Being passionate about technology, with personal ownership for the work you do

Team Leadership:

• Position the team for leadership in emerging areas such as AI, personalization, and dynamic digital experiences on web and mobile apps
• Lead a team of QA developers
• Provide technical leadership and career growth for the engineers
• Build talent pipeline with external and internal candidates
• Build an engineering network across BlackRock

Project Leadership:

• Ownership mindset
• Agile product development practices
• Collaborate with global collaborators, product managers, designers, and other engineering leaders in the organization
• Deliver complex digital projects on time and with high level of quality

Essential skills / experience

Is a must:

• 6+years working experience in software testing or QA
• Proven ability to assure the quality of the developed software and code
• You have an analytical mind-set and can grasp complex concepts easily
• You have experience with at least one of the following frameworks: Playwright, Cypress or Puppeteer
• You have experience in JavaScript and TypeScript
• You have experience with CI/CD environments
• You are interested in extending your testing know-how
• You are fluent in English,
• You have experience with Jira/Azure Boards, Confluence, Git
• Strong collaboration, communication, and time management abilities.

Is a plus:

• Experience with Azure DevOps
• Experience with monitoring, Grafana, K6