QA Lead Hybrid at San Francisco, CA Contract

HYBRID ROLE at San Francisco, CA (2 day onsite)QA Lead LongTerm ContractThe Software Quality Assurance Lead supports an agile team in analyzing, designing, building and testing high quality applications that exceeds our customer expectations. The SQA Lead will review functional requirements and user stories from business partners; develop test strategy, design test plans, write test cases, and perform testing for assigned applications. The candidate is expected to be a self-starter, requiring minimal oversight, is results-oriented, with a strong sense of teamwork. The role requires exceptional communication skills and an ability to build and maintain working relationships with team members, vendors, and other departments involved. What you'll do as a QA Lead: Design, develop and maintain a modular, extensible and reusable test automation scripts Develop, automate and execute test cases to ensure feature enhancements are high quality and provide an intuitive customer experience Identify and document bugs in usability and functionality; help engineers troubleshoot issues as they are uncovered Champion and roll out new QA methods (functional, regression and automation testing etc.) and tools. Continuously improvising on tests, Identify test gaps and come-up with ways to bridge those gaps SQL experience is a must. ETL/DW experience highly desired. Work effectively with Test Manager, Business SMEs and other Key Stakeholders. Design, build and manage testing frameworks and test content for the entire application stack. Define key metrics for performance and quality, and instrument the product in order to continually improve on these metrics. Partner with cross-functional teams to seek inputs on process improvements and improve re-use of test assets. Experience in reporting, regressing, and reproducing software problems. Ability to estimate test schedule and report on test progress. 8-10 years' of experience in the Information Services field, focusing on QA activities and testing. Lead test planning and execution activities. Participate in various design, backlog discussions.