QA Lead - RMS

The QA Lead consultant must be comfortable working in a fast-paced and demanding environment, able to multi-task across several issues simultaneously, and possess strong interpersonal communication skills to be able to effectively communicate with technical and non-technical resources alike.

Project Specific Responsibilities or Qualifications:

• Must have experience in Retail.
• Experience with Retail Merchandizing System (RMS) item maintenance and purchase order entry is required..
• Experience with customer order entry, receiving and shipping orders, shipping manifests (customer/commercial invoices) is a plus.
• Experience with an Order Management System (OMS) or an eCommerce/Direct-To-Consumer (DTC) system is a plus. Pr Strong Supply Chain systems experience.

Responsibilities:

• Lead and manage the QA team (developers, business analyst, business partners)
• Partner with the Project Manager to develop and execute Testing Strategy for the project
• Develop test plan, including a detailed testing schedule
• Ensure adherence to IT Project Management Methodology for Validation (correct testing methodology/tools/reporting is used, focusing on requirements and user test methodology to ensure fulfillment of business requirements and IT quality, architectural, and security standards)
• Partner with the Business Analyst to review testability of requirements
• Develop scenarios and test cases, and upload test cases into HP ALM tool
• Co-ordinate with the offshore test team for test case design & review
• Lead daily testing defect meetings
• Track and communicate the progress of System, Integration and User Acceptance Testing on a daily basis
• Identify, mitigate, escalate and communicate defects, issues and risk

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, MIS/CIS, Engineering, or related field (required)
• 5+ years experience in QA, preferably with a minimum 3 years as a QA Lead
• Ability to lead project team comprised of business and IT associates with strong interpersonal skills, including collaboration, facilitation, leadership, and negotiation skills with minimal oversight
• Ability to create detailed test scripts based on a list of functional requirements and test scenarios and scripts from previous projects (if existing)
• Ability to create End-to-End test scenarios from Use cases and Solution deign documents.
• Strong written and verbal communications skills to facilitate communications between and among highly experienced business and IT associates