Senior Quality Assurance Analyst - Test Lead

As part of an Agile team, you’ll lead and support the team to deliver its commitments in a predictable way according to the SAFe definition and with the expected quality. • The Quality Assurance Analyst Senior Test Lead will report to the CORE Merchant QA Manager and work closely with each discipline within the Delivery Team (Project Manager, Product Owner, Design, Development and Test) to complete test analysis, test design and automated test execution, integrating closely to deliver User Stories. • Develop, maintain, and execute manual or automated test scripts, utilities, simulators, data sets and other programmatic test tools required to execute test plans in the E2E automated test environment. • Organize, manage, and update comprehensive automated testing plans for new and existing systems with input from quality engineers, system analysts and developers. • Organize and lead automated testing efforts for one or more areas within the E2E ecosystem. • Assist with multiple End to End testing projects and simultaneously maintain Agile and Safe project management methodologies. • Assist the E2E leads in collaborating with Product and IT Development teams to collect requirements and design solutions following best practices for all client/customer facing applications. • Assist to ensure all planned E2E testing is completed on-time, with the highest quality, and within budget. • Ensure all Quality Assurance and testing activities are conducted according to the SDLC and Agile SAFe practices. • Inputs and maintains test artifacts and updates data in test/project management tools. • Effectively communicates testing activities and findings in oral and written forms. • Report automated execution results; document and manage defects to resolution using provided tools. • Backend database validation using SQL. • Proactively identify improvements and enhancements to working practices.