Pega QA Test Lead

**Position: Pega QA Test Lead** **Location: NYC, NY (Remote** **Duration: Contract** **Essential Accountabilities** * Leads and owns the efforts to define the testing strategies, scope, and plans for multiple projects within a product family portfolio. This includes but is not limited to: * Defining types of testing needed * Reviewing test environment dependencies, limitations. * Defining what test data will be required (high level). * Ensuring test cases are properly written, structured, organized and updated, per the agile standards. * Coaches testing team members and shares resources. * Onboards new testers into an assigned agile team. This includes, but is not limited to: * Providing step by step procedures for testers to follow to configure their testing environments, tools, etc. * Recommends and implements opportunities for productivity and process improvements. * Reviews the quality metrics dashboards and follow up with teams on any findings. * Collaborates with the automation engineers to review the test automation implementation across the product family portfolio, monitoring for the following: * Requirements coverage. * Testing code quality and stability. * Cadence of runs against development deployments. * Status of the automation backlog. * Monitors/tracks third\-party issues that need resolution outside the scope of an agile team’s product/project. * Recommends test solutions and strategies to senior management and the architecture council. **Minimum Qualifications** * Experience with Facets and SQL queries. * Experience with Healthcare and Pega application. * Experience with testing at various levels (functional, integration, system, load, and performance testing). * Experience working with iterative, waterfall, and agile methodologies. * Demonstrated experience in executing/administering test automation. * Demonstrated ability to work on complex projects and multiple project testing efforts concurrently. * Ability to understand and write complex data driven test scenarios, workflow testing, user stories, and behavior driven development. * Demonstrated ability to identify root cause problems and determine innovative sources for solutions and opportunities. * Demonstrated ability to drive complex testing solutions to completion. * Demonstrated experience compiling and reporting test results, metrics and issues to senior management. * Demonstrated experience working with third party vendors to track issues and resolve in a timely manner. Pay: $60\.00 per hour Experience: * Pegasystems: 4 years (Required) Work Location: Remote