QA Supervisor Job in Oklahoma City 73132, Oklahoma US

Mercury Insurance Group Is currently seeking a motivated QA Supervisor to help manage all QA related IT projects for our Oklahoma City location. This hybrid position is a mixture of hands on QA work, creative problem solving and leading teams on various projects. The ideal candidates will have 6 years’ experience testing software, XML experience and a strong understanding Software Development Life Cycle.

 

Responsibilities:

·         Coordinate all Quality Assurance (QA) related activity for IT projects.

·         Makes carefully thought-out decisions on complex quality assurance issues and determines when software is ready for release.

·         Establishes and communicates common goal and direction for the team. 

·         Work with business analysts to evaluate software development procedures and recommends program improvements or corrections to programmers to ensure adherence to Internal Audit and SOX compliance.

·         Writes, revises, and verifies quality standards and test procedures for program design and product evaluation to attain quality software economically and efficiently.

·         Documents coding and usability issues and works with developers to resolve identified problems.

·         Acts as project information resource or subject matter expert (SME) for QA staff for specific IT projects.

·         Performs workflow analysis and recommends quality improvements.

·         Manages/develops test strategies, test plans and test cases for application testing.

·         Manages test execution efforts, including test case development per established test plans, problems/defects documentation, and software retesting effort to ensure problems are resolved.

·         Introduces testability requirements during project requirements phase.

·         Plans and implements global testing solutions through automation technologies.

·         Develops and maintains test scripts utilizing HP QuickTest Pro and/or soapUI.

·         Develops and maintain fixture wikis and maintain test fixtures in code.

·         Proposes new improvements to testing solutions.

·         Ensures project readmap meets needs of testability. Leads testing projects toward a technical testing solution.

·         Other duties as assigned.

 

Requirements:

·         Bachelor’s Degree preferred in Computer or Engineering related diciplines.

·         6+ years’ experience testing commercial software

·         2 years prior team leader or supervisory experience; or equivalent combination of education and experience.

·         Working knowledge of Quality Assurance methodologies and a broad base of technical knowledge is required.

·         Working knowledge of XML and experience using XML testing tools such as soapUI is strongly preferred

·         Knowledge of MS applications (Excel, Word, Access) is preferred.

·         A strong understanding of DB2/SQL/Oracledatabase is preferred.

·         Understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) is required.

·         Experience with functional/regression testing tools such as QuickTestPro is preferred.

·         Prior exposure to Agile software development process is preferred.

·         Experience with defect tracking applications, such as HP Quality Center, is required.

·         Requires excellent written and verbal communication skills.

·         Requires outstanding organizational skills and the ability to multitask and work on multiple simultaneous projects.

·         Must be able to communicate professionally at all levels within and outside of the organization.

·         Must be able to creatively solve complex problems.