Quality Assurance Lead

As an employee at Thomson Reuters, you will play a role in shaping and leading the global knowledge economy. Our technology drives global markets and helps professionals around the world make decisions that matter. Whether solving for today\xe2\x80\x99s challenges or tomorrow\xe2\x80\x99s aspirations, you will work with the industry\xe2\x80\x99s brightest thinkers on diverse projects, creating next-generation solutions that deliver powerful results. As the world\xe2\x80\x99s leading provider of intelligent information, we want your unique perspective to create the solutions that advance our business\xe2\x80\x94and your career.
Are you passionate about the chance to bring your extensive quality experience and mindset to a world class company? The Digital Technology team is looking to add a strong Quality Assurance Lead to a well-established global digital team. This position requires someone who is a passionate learner, an independent thinker, works well collaboratively across multiple disciplines, and is comfortable working with a variety of people and technology stacks. This is a chance to get in and make an immediate impact transforming the way our customers interact with us digitally as we shape the next generation of an enterprise wide Unified Experience. Your work will be in the space of Quality Engineering and Assurance involving design, develop, maintain and execution of automated testing solutions and will be critical to the delivery of digital solutions to our customers all over the world and teams across the digital organization.

About the Role

• As a Quality Assurance Lead, you will:

• Design and Implement \xe2\x80\x93 automated testing solutions by understanding business needs, defining test scenarios, building test scripts using tools/frameworks and comprehensive understanding of software development life cycle/Agile methodologies. Test applications across a range of technologies including web, mobile, batch processing, CMS, REST services

• Be a Team Player \xe2\x80\x93 work in a collaborative team-oriented environment, share information, value diverse ideas, partner with cross functional and remote teams. Coach and assist less experienced quality assurance engineers

• Be Curious & Innovative \xe2\x80\x93 continuously update yourself with next generation technology, testing tools, and contribute to process development practices

• Be an Agile Person \xe2\x80\x93 involved in the sprint team. Communicate on issues that may affect QA sprints, identify process improvements, & work with technical team to ensure sprint success. Review user stories providing feedback on testability and effort estimations from quality assurance perspective

• Be an Effective Communicator \xe2\x80\x93 articulate complex technical issues, and share ideas, participate in peer-reviews, and exhibit strong listening skills. Ability to communicate effectively with Product Owner, technical staff, management, and business team members

• Take Ownership \xe2\x80\x93 responsible for performance, reliability and implement changes for improving efficiency of the testing solutions

About You

• You\xe2\x80\x99re a fit for the role of Quality Assurance Lead if you have:

• Bachelor\xe2\x80\x99s degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline is required.

• 9+ years of experience designing, developing, maintaining, and executing automated testing solutions or similar in in Java or other Object-Oriented languages

• 2+ years of experience as an Automation Team Lead or in other leadership role

• 2+ years of experience working with the Agile methodology, and related testing and test automation techniques

• Experience working with and developing automated test scripts using test automation tools & frameworks such as QTP/UFT, Selenium, Worksoft

• Understanding of, and experience working in the areas of performance, PEN, security & compliance, Mobile & Multi-browser, Accessibility testing

• Experience leading teams of onshore and offshore resources through End-to-end delivery

• Understand and create testing traceability

• Experience working with Continuous Integration

• Knowledge of TDD and/or BDD concepts

• Leadership skills with a track record of mentoring, setting technical goals, and delegating tasks

• Understanding of testing metrics and experience using metrics to target process and efficiency improvements

• Experience working with keyword and data-driven test automation frameworks

• Hands-on experience with white box and black box testing

• Technologies a plus, to include: Adobe Experience Manager, Cucumber-JVM, JavaScript and ReactJS

• Other experience a plus, to include: Performance, accessibility and security testing

What\'s in it For You?

You will join our inclusive culture of world-class talent, where we are committed to your personal and professional growth through:

Hybrid Work Model: We\xe2\x80\x99ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected

Wellbeing: Comprehensive benefit plans; flexible and supportive benefits for work-life balance: flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days Off; work from another location for up to a total of 8 weeks in a year, 4 of those weeks can be out of the country and the remaining in the country, Headspace app subscription; retirement, savings, tuition reimbursement, and employee incentive programs; resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.

Culture: Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for equality, diversity and inclusion, flexibility, work-life balance, and more.

Learning & Development: LinkedIn Learning access; internal Talent Marketplace with opportunities to work on projects cross-company; Ten Thousand Coffees Thomson Reuters caf\xc3\xa9 networking.

Social Impact: Ten employee-driven Business Resource Groups; two paid volunteer days annually; Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) initiatives for local and global impact.

Purpose Driven Work: We have a superpower that we\xe2\x80\x99ve never talked about with as much pride as we should \xe2\x80\x93 we are one of the only companies on the planet that helps its customers pursue justice, truth and transparency. Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.

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