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Sapphire Recruitment, LLC lists this Software Quality Assurance Lead / 62704 opportunity in village of liverpool, New York. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.
Job description
Software Quality Assurance Lead
Liverpool, NY | $125,000–$130,000 | Fully Onsite
Sapphire Recruitment is seeking a hands-on Software Quality Assurance Lead for an established retail technology and software company in Liverpool, NY.
This position will lead the expansion of automated testing while remaining actively involved in framework development, test execution, and troubleshooting. The ideal candidate has strong Python, Selenium, and CI/CD experience and can provide technical direction and mentorship in a fast-moving software development environment.
This role requires working onsite five days per week.
Responsibilities
Build, expand, and maintain automated testing frameworks using Python and Selenium.
Integrate automated testing into GitLab CI/CD pipelines.
Develop and execute automated and manual test plans for new features, enhancements, fixes, patches, and third-party applications.
Perform functional, integration, regression, and end-to-end testing.
Increase test automation coverage and identify defects earlier in the development lifecycle.
Analyze defects, testing results, risks, and coverage, and communicate findings to technical leadership.
Improve testing processes for greater speed, consistency, and reliability.
Test complex retail applications involving payment processing, inventory, product management, and other transactional functions.
Collaborate with developers, architects, product stakeholders, and QA team members.
Lead QA projects, develop estimates and timelines, and report on status and risks.
Mentor QA team members in automated and manual testing practices.
Evaluate practical uses of AI for test creation, maintenance, coverage analysis, and defect identification.
Assist with QA department oversight when needed.
Qualifications
Associate or bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
At least four years of hands-on automated software testing experience.
Strong experience with Python, Selenium, and automated test framework development.
Experience integrating automated tests into GitLab or a comparable CI/CD platform.
Knowledge of functional, integration, regression, end-to-end, automated, and manual testing.
Demonstrated success improving or expanding an automated testing framework.
Ability to lead technical initiatives and mentor others while remaining hands-on.
Strong analytical, troubleshooting, project-management, and communication skills.
Ability to work onsite in Liverpool five days per week.
Preferred Experience
Applications developed in C# or PHP.
AI-assisted software development or AI-supported testing.
Retail technology, point-of-sale, payment-processing, inventory, or transactional software.
API, database, hardware-integration, or performance testing.
Previous technical QA lead or subject-matter expert experience.
Compensation:
$125,000–$130,000 annually, based on experience and qualifications.
Sapphire Recruitment is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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