Lead Software Test Engineer

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Lead Software Test Engineer

Lead Software Test Engineer

Position-Lead Software Test Engineer

What you'll do:

• Mentor engineer and Sr. Engineers through weekly 1:1
• Track QA sign offs for each of the testing cycles
• Interview new hires in QA department
• Create KT and other transition plans
• Work with QA managers on release schedules
• Delegate and distribute tasks to QA engineers like test case writing and reviews.
• Review manual and automation test cases
• Conduct lessons learned / retrospective meetings
• Run daily stand-up calls with QA teams
• Work with other leads on standardizing process across QA teams
• Direct collaboration with the performance engineer for environment and services health and analysis
• Maintain QA documents, templates and job aids
• Assess capacity and allocate resources for all releases and test cycles
• Review task estimation by engineers
• Create dashboards and work on optimization plans and future roadmaps.
• Provide detailed weekly report on project status and scope
• Innovative technical leadership demonstrated via enhancements, suggestion and/or engagement

What We're Looking For:

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science/ Engineering or 5+ years of Engineering experience
• 7+ years overall QA experience, at least 3 years as a Senior QA Engineer individual contributor
• 3+ years current experience leading projects and teams
• 3+ years writing automated tests
• 2+ years interacting with development team, program management, and DevOps/SRE when launching features and releases
• 5+ years of experience working with AWS, Linux, networked systems and databases
• High engagement, high collaboration, and positive working relationship with QA manager
• High engagement, high collaboration, and positive working relationship with other Peers, PGM, RM)
• Excellent track record of clear, value test additions and documentation
• Mastery of implementing and navigating Agile process and procedures
• Proactive in scheduling necessary meetings, without direction and implementing solutions.
• Confident communicator in multiple contexts (presentations, meetings, etc)
• Strong knowledge of automation tools
• Work with different departments and upstream and downstream stakeholders like DevOps, Dev leads, Engineering Managers, TMP teams and others
• Collaboration and direct engagement with other QA leads for proper coverage and gap analysis.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with white/gray/black box and automation test methods
• Demonstrated experience in test planning for complex features/systems
• Experience in writing, executing and monitoring test suites using a variety of technologies including, but not limited to, Cucumber, Selenium, ReadyAPI, Postman, Robot Framework
• Ability to track multiple test executions simultaneously and to be able to synthesize the results
• Must be comfortable reading and writing in code
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to provide technical mentorship to other QA engineers
• Lead test strategy, automation, and performance testing efforts.
• Performance testing is nice to have.
• Mentor engineers and champion best practices in QA.
• Drive UI automation with Selenium, API testing with selenium rest assured and Postman, and performance testing with Jmeter
• Hands-on expertise in automation frameworks such as Selenium, Playwright, or similar.
• Excellent problem-solving, collaboration, and leadership skills.
• Very good Testing Tools and Technologies understanding : Docker, Kubernetes, Postman, Jenkins, Java, Eclipse / IntelliJ IDEA,, TestNG, Selenium, SQL, Jira,
• 5+yrs of JAVA /Core JAVA programming,
• Knowledge of continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) practices.
• Leverage AI-first testing approaches to reduce reliance on manual test scripts.
• Improve test execution within CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, containers, cloud) for enhanced speed and scalability.
• Apply AI/GenAI tools (e.g., Copilot) to accelerate automation and deliver rapid results

What We Offer:

• A work environment that allows you to work with and learn from some of the best and brightest in this emerging industry
• The ability to make a difference in a world that needs our technology to help reduce carbon emissions and enable a more sustainable energy future through the use of electric vehicle charging software, services and infrastructure
• The freedom to learn, suggest, and implement innovative new ideas applied to our systems, processes, programs and technologies
• Daily ownership of your role in a challenging, high-growth environment.
• A casual work environment and culture that support work life fit, enabling you to fit life into your work and work into your life, i.e. flexible scheduling, virtualization options, and a generous holiday package
• Competitive pay and benefits programs designed to enable you to thrive inside and outside of work
• Participation in Shell Recharge Solutions performance and rewards bonus program
• Health benefits for employees
• Innovative Paid Time Off Program
• 9/80 Flex Work schedule