Quality Assurance Lead
At Digital Turbine, we want to create simpler ways for consumers to discover the apps and content they love. Through our partnerships with leading carriers and OEMs, we create new frictionless experiences on smartphones that allow brands and advertisers to reach users at an unprecedented scale. In a rapidly changing industry, we are always looking to create better paths of discovery to connect consumers, publishers, and advertisers in the mobile ecosystem.
The Quality Assurance Lead is responsible for ensuring the customers receive the highest quality solutions possible. The QA Lead works with Product Management, Engineering, and Project Management leads to define, implement, and execute Quality Assurance activities that span the entire Software Development Lifecycle. The ideal Quality Assurance Lead candidate has experience testing any platform (iOS, Android, Windows, Mac, Linux) and is familiar with validating SaaS solutions. Strong communication and technical skills are required as well as knowledge in working with automation frameworks, APIs, mobile devices, relational and document databases. The Quality Assurance Lead should be familiar with front-end and back-end development in a services-based environment and comfortable translating business requirements into well-defined test cases.
Job Responsibilities of the Quality Assurance Lead:
- Lead the Quality Assurance team
- Foster a team environment of collaboration, respect, and continuous learning
- Develop and execute product testing strategy and plans
- Identify appropriate test strategies, test environment requirements and activities based on application-specific technical and functional characteristics
- Work with the team to architect application test frameworks and infrastructure
- Manage and maintain test plans and test cases covering functional product, integration, performance for automated and manual testing
- Plan test execution cycles to meet product release schedules
- Assess readiness and deviation of product/ project performance based upon test results and product specifications
- Certify and approve product releases for delivery
- Define, document and improve our QA testing standards, tools, procedures and guidelines
- Drive strategic initiatives to reduce time to market, increase quality and expand test automation
- Conduct trend and root cause analysis and determine risk mitigation strategies
- Establish quality metrics and tracking mechanisms
- Create dashboard(s) that provide increased visibility into key metrics and trends. Identify actionable items from this data analysis and use to drive the appropriate improvements across the development team
- Collaborate with DevOps in the management of multiple application environments, including QA, UAT, Staging, etc., and the code contained therein.
- Ensure testing of vendor products meets our standards
- Demonstrate behaviors consistent with the Company's Vision, Mission, and Values in all interactions with customers, co-workers and suppliers
- Adhere to all company policies, procedures and safety standards
Qualifications of the Quality Assurance Lead:
- 5+ years of software testing or development experience
- 3+ years of experience leading and mentoring QA teams comprised of both manual and automation test engineers
- 3+ years of experience with cloud-based SaaS solutions
- 3+ years of experience with mobile application validation
- Knowledge and experience working in the cloud, specifically using AWS
- Knowledge and experience with Agile development practices
- Experience with continuous integration and test driven development
- Ability to manage and direct at all levels of testing including unit, functional, automation, regression, performance and scalability testing
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Good team player who shares knowledge and experience with team members
- BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent
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About Digital Turbine
Digital Turbine is the largest independent mobile growth platform and levels up the landscape for advertisers, publishers, carriers, and OEMs. By integrating a full ad stack with proprietary technology built into devices by wireless operators and OEMs, Digital Turbine supercharges advertising and monetization. As a titan of ad tech, we simplify mobile growth and monetization for publishers and advertisers.
The company is headquartered in Austin, Texas, with global offices in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, London, Berlin, Singapore, Tel Aviv, and other cities serving top agency, app developer, and advertising markets. Listed on Deloitte Technology Fast 500 for six consecutive years since 2015 and winner of Austin Chamber of Commerce's Company Culture in 2020.
Digital Turbine is an equal opportunity employer and committed to building a diverse and inclusive team. We welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives!