Lead QA with Automation

Overview: Lead QA with experience in automation and skilled with team's line management activities. Responsibilities: Provide professional test expertise and sound engineering principles - providing technical advice and steering to others in the team at all levels, from Project Management skills, through to practical test scripting activities. Ensure high quality test strategies, for final sign off by the Development Architect, Dev Manager, and stakeholders in the project. Engage with the Dev Manager and developers from the beginning of a project, proactively challenge any areas judged to be of insufficient quality. Need to be able to directly manage and communicate with Stakeholders, Support teams, Delivery managers, Solution architects and Technical architects. Provide estimates for testing work, and fully own and monitor the test plan/strategy. Should be technically focused and be able to drive specialist testing such as automation with exposure to automation framework. Skill to write automation scripts (Selenium C#) Good knowledge in SQL querying. Full ownership of testing and assessment of software quality on assigned project. Drive testers to ensure the required level of work is completed to time. Drive the team on process improvements. Own the Root cause analysis for all UAT and Live issues, produce Learning's, actions and implement the same. Should be able to take up hands-on testing. Experience: 8-10 years experience,