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.