
Senior QA Lead
Ábaco Consulting
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇧🇷 Brazil
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Senior
Tech Stack
Azure
About the role
- Monitor the QA team's daily activities, providing technical and operational support
- Distribute tasks, balance workload and ensure a sustainable pace within squads
- Monitor task execution, ensuring deadlines, quality and acceptance criteria are met
- Track operational metrics (productivity, defects, throughput, lead time, test coverage)
- Actively integrate with Development, Analysis and Support squads, aligning priorities and dependencies
- Identify, record, track and report risks, non-conformities and deviations
- Organize and prioritize the QA backlog according to criticality and project impact
- Support test planning, effort estimates, functional validations and story reviews
- Contribute to standardizing processes and aligning QA practices across teams
- Participate in agile ceremonies and collaborate on continuous improvement of internal processes
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree completed or in progress in Information Systems, Software Engineering, Systems Analysis and Development, Computer Science or related fields
- Previous experience in Quality Assurance, functional and/or non-functional testing
- Knowledge of agile methodologies (Scrum/Kanban) and management tools (preferably Azure DevOps)
- Proven ability to monitor and distribute tasks within cross-functional teams
- Experience creating test plans, acceptance criteria and effort estimates
- Ability to identify, record and communicate non-conformities, risks and impediments
- Analytical skills to monitor productivity, performance and quality metrics
- Good understanding of the software development lifecycle and versioning practices
- Organizational skills, clear communication, sense of urgency and ability to prioritize
Benefits
- Remote work
- Contract length: Indefinite
- Project duration: Indefinite
- Contract type: PJ (contractor)
- Open
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
Quality Assurancefunctional testingnon-functional testingtest planningacceptance criteriaeffort estimatesagile methodologiesmonitoring metricssoftware development lifecycleversioning practices
Soft skills
organizational skillsclear communicationsense of urgencyability to prioritizeanalytical skillstask distributioncollaborationrisk identificationreporting non-conformitiescontinuous improvement