Our client is seeking a Lead QA Analyst for the following: - Establish and evolve formal QA processes, ensuring that the team is using industry-accepted best practices. - Oversee all aspects of quality assurance including establishing metrics, applying industry best practices, and developing new tools and processes to ensure quality goals are met. - Act as key point of contact for all QA aspects of releases, providing QA services and coordinating QA resources internally and externally. - Lead and mentor QA team members, as well as manage outside contract testers. - Develop and execute test cases, scripts, plans and procedures (manual and automated). The engineer will be responsible for the following: - Demonstrated ability to design, implement and enforce software quality processes and standards. - Expertise in manual and automated testing in a variety of environments such as web, client-server, large packaged software, custom java, html, and flash-based software. - Strong analysis skills necessary to create test data and plans that ensure new and revised systems meet business needs and create an overall understanding of the applications being supported. - Proficiency in eliciting and developing business value and cost/benefit analysis of an initiative in conjunction with a finance partner. - Strong collaborative skills to work across myriad stakeholder group to translate goals and objectives into delivery strategies. - Deep and diverse experience developing action plans and processes (preferably using the Scientific Method, Lean Plan-Do-Check-Adjust) in coordination with a management team, for integrating activities and optimizing department resources to meet major goals and objectives. - Comfortable and competent in developing internal and/or external partnerships that leverage resources and improve responsiveness. - Experience, interest and adaptability to working in a Waterfall or Lean/Agile delivery environment. - Exceptional collaboration, listening, written and verbal communication skills. - Successful track record dealing with executive level professionals to drive business outcomes. - Experience in Lean process improvement efforts. - A consultancy approach to your work. - Commitment to collaborate with developers and subject matter experts to establish the technical vision and analyze trade-offs between usability and performance needs. Qualifications: - Position Requirements: No clearance required. - Desired Education: Bachelor's Degree preferred. Desired Experience: - 3-5 years of experience working in a software testing or software analysis role. - 1-3 years of experience working in a technical leadership role. - Demonstrated experience with automated testing tools (e.g. Mercury, Rational, or Winrunner). - Experience testing or developing within any of the following technologies is preferred: Visual C++, VB, Visual Interdev/ASP, Active X, COM, ODBC, OLEDB, Win32 APIs, MS SQL Server, Java, JSP, JHTML, Oracle, Solaris, Flash. - Experience authoring comprehensive test plans and test scripts. - Experience integrating with third party vendors for staffing needs – experience obtaining contract staff desirable. - Deep knowledge and hands-on experience with iterative and waterfall development methodologies (e.g. BABOK, XP, Scrum, RUP, XUP, etc). - Extremely process and detail oriented. - Strong troubleshooting skills. - Strong written and verbal communication skills. Desired Certifications: - Certified Test Manager (CTM) or Certified Software Test Professional (CSTP) greatly preferred. J-18808-Ljbffr