Software Development Engineer in Test, Lead - HYBRID

Your primary responsibility will be to lead, maintain and facilitate a highly effective team focused on QA and test automation for application(s) used by insurance market and restoration professionals.

Working with developers, product managers, leadership, and other key stakeholders to validate that these applications are of the highest quality and fit for release to customers.

You'll be overseeing a team where each member will be responsible for the following functions:

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Writing and maintaining automated test cases.

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Testing and validating the application under test.

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Developing test plans for features, including automated and manual steps as needed.

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Researching issues and informing stakeholders on status.

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Creating innovative technical solutions to validate the application under test.

You will be involved in every stage of the SDLC, from design, to implementation, to final validation of the application.

Working with your team and the teams around you to ensure quality standards are met.

Consistently shifting left to catch quality issues early.

This team owns various software systems, meaning you will have a heavy hand in designing and shaping the architecture and technical strategy of these systems.

Collaborating with your team, senior engineers, and other leadership to ensure the systems meet expectations.

Raising concerns and advocating for the customer, and the team whenever necessary.

You will facilitate the management of the project through agile ceremonies, creating and prioritizing tasks, and holding your team accountable to execute according to deadlines.

You will also maintain and capture Quality and performance metrics about your team for reporting to higher level leaders.

Additionally, you will be responsible for hiring, training, mentoring, performance reviews, resolving interpersonal conflicts, providing regular feedback, and hands-on leadership to each of your direct reports.

• Takes pride in supporting the professional growth of others.

• Experience managing software teams and projects.

• Proficient with Quality Assurance techniques and best practices

• Strong knowledge of C# or other object-oriented languages.

• Solid understanding of both automated and manual testing strategies and employing them in complex environments.

• Strong knowledge of software and system architecture.

• Strong knowledge of every phase of the software development lifecycle.

• Builds strong working relationships across the organization.

• Responsive to messages and acts proactively as required.

• Strong ability to synthesize information and present it to higher-level leaders clearly and concisely.

• Able to keep up with latest trends in software development and automated testing.

• Acts as a multiplier for their team and inspires their team to be their best.

• Can provide accurate, timely and critical feedback to their direct reports.

• Can receive critical feedback and use it to grow and im...