Quality Assurance Lead

Summary

Join Datacom as a QA Lead and oversee testing processes, ensuring software quality, and leading a team of QA engineers. You will leverage your expertise in manual and automated testing, software development life cycles, and quality assurance best practices. The role involves leading and mentoring a team, defining QA strategies, collaborating with other teams, designing and executing test plans, implementing automation frameworks, and resolving defects. Datacom offers a dynamic, agile work environment with perks such as social events, chill-out spaces, remote working, flexi-hours, and professional development courses. The company prioritizes a supportive and inclusive workplace, offering competitive salaries, healthcare, life insurance, and discounts at local retailers.

Requirements

• Have a strong background in manual and automated testing
• Have deep knowledge of software development life cycles
• Have expertise in implementing quality assurance best practices

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of QA engineers, ensuring best practices in testing and quality assurance
• Define and implement QA strategies and processes to improve testing efficiency
• Collaborate with development, product, and business teams to ensure quality is embedded in every phase of the SDLC
• Design, develop, and execute test plans, test cases, and test scripts for functional, regression, performance, and security testing
• Implement and maintain automated testing frameworks to enhance efficiency
• Identify, track, and resolve defects and quality issues, working closely with developers
• Develop and enforce QA best practices, standards, and guidelines
• Establish metrics to monitor software quality and testing effectiveness
• Maintain test documentation, including test plans, test reports, and defect logs
• Select and implement automation tools for UI, API, and performance testing
• Work with DevOps teams to integrate test automation in CI/CD pipelines
• Stay updated with the latest QA tools and technologies to improve test coverage and efficiency

Benefits

• Social events
• Chill-out spaces
• Remote working
• Flexi-hours
• Professional development courses
• Healthcare
• Life insurance
• Discounts at local retailers