Job Description

:What You\'ll DoAs the Automation Quality Analyst Lead, your mission is to promote excellence in automated testing, ensuring the pinnacle of quality and reliability in customer experiences. Guiding a team of experienced analysts, you\'ll craft automation frameworks, define strategic testing approaches, and improve initiatives. Collaborating across functions, you\'ll establish rigorous testing standards and uncover automation opportunities, propelling us towards the swift delivery of impeccable software solutions.

• Create relevant documentation
• Implement relevant quality checks and remediation action to mitigate risks
• Ability to identify where business, product and performance improvements can be made and work with leadership to aid in implementation
• Ensure quality results are reported accurately on a weekly and monthly basis as required and shared with relevant stakeholders
• Focus on defining and achieving quality and compliance KPIs both internally and externally
• Work collaboratively with the Insights Team and Quality Coordinator to determine appropriate sample sizes and defining a benchmark for quality checking with input from other senior stakeholders.
• Support in designing and maintaining Quality dashboards through Power BI across all processes enabling progress visibility as well as help develop and maintain internal quality team dashboards
• Maintain a library of quality documentation ensuring process maps and SOPs are created and kept up to date in line with governance processes
• Promote adherence to company policy addressing and documenting any non-conformance and escalating where appropriate
• Provide recommendations for corrective and preventative actions to reduce inefficiencies and operational errors
• Support and coordinate the introduction of additional quality management outside of the key operational processes
• Acting as a support to provide guidance to other team members on proposed actions
• Confident in presenting findings and sharing updates to a variety of stakeholders across the

What You\'ll Need to be Successful

• In the realm of Leadership and Team Management, your role is to serve as a beacon, guiding and nurturing a team of automation quality analysts towards professional excellence. Through steadfast mentorship, you provide the invaluable guidance, coaching, and support needed for their growth and development. Defining clear team objectives, priorities, and performance metrics, you diligently monitor progress, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement within the team.
• In the arena of Automation Strategy and Framework Design, you craft the blueprints for success, aligning automation strategies with project goals and quality objectives. With a discerning eye, you evaluate and select the most fitting automation tools, frameworks, and technologies, tailoring them to project requirements. Your expertise shines as you design, develop, and maintain scalable and reusable automation frameworks, finely tuned to specific application architectures and platforms.
• When it comes to Test Planning and Execution, you orchestrate meticulous preparations, collaborating closely with stakeholders to craft comprehensive test plans and scenarios. Prioritizing with precision, you define test coverage criteria and oversee the execution of automated tests to validate software functionality and performance. Ever vigilant, you analyze test results, swiftly coordinating with development teams to address any issues that arise.
• In the realm of Tool Selection and Evaluation, you serve as the vanguard of innovation, staying abreast of industry trends and emerging technologies to enhance testing efficiency and scalability. Your discerning eye identifies the tools and technologies best suited to elevate our testing endeavors, ensuring that we remain at the forefront of automation excellence.
• With a steadfast commitment to Quality Assurance Standards and Best Practices, you set the gold standard for excellence, establishing and enforcing meticulous guidelines for automation testing. Through rigorous code reviews, quality inspections, and audits, you ensure adherence to standards and practices, maintaining the integrity and reliability of our automation efforts.
• In Defect Management and Reporting, you are the guardian of quality, implementing robust processes to track, prioritize, and resolve automation-related issues. Through meticulous monitoring and analysis, you identify areas for improvement, generating comprehensive test reports and metrics to provide stakeholders and project teams with invaluable insights into progress and quality.

About AvalaraAbout Avalara:
We\xe2\x80\x99re building cloud-based tax compliance solutions to handle every transaction in the world. Imagine every transaction you make \xe2\x80\x94 every tank of gas, cup of coffee, or pair of sneakers, every movie ticket, meal kit, or streamed song, every sensor-to-sensor ping. Nearly every time you make a purchase, physical or digital, there\xe2\x80\x99s an accompanying unique and nuanced tax compliance calculation. The logic behind calculating taxes \xe2\x80\x94 the rules, rates, and boundaries is a global, layered, three-dimensional mess of complexity, with compliance dictated by governments and applied by every business, every day.Avalara works with businesses of all sizes, all over the world \xe2\x80\x94 from corner stores to gigantic global retailers \xe2\x80\x94 to calculate tax accurately and automatically, at speeds measured in milliseconds. That\xe2\x80\x99s a massive technical challenge, in terms of scale, reliability, and complexity, and we do it better than anyone. That\xe2\x80\x99s why we\xe2\x80\x99re growing fast. Headquartered in Seattle, Avalara has offices across the U.S. and around the world, in Brazil, Canada, India, U.K, Belgium and across Europe.Equal Opportunities:
Avalara is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, creed, religion, age, gender, national orientation, disability, sexual orientation, US Veteran status, or any other factor protected by law.

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