Test Quality Engineer

Test Quality Engineer, IBM Corporation, New York, NY (Up to 40% telecommuting permitted): Test applications in the Financial Services domain leveraging AI (artificial intelligence), Automation, UAT and Integration Testing. Define test strategy, test plan preparation, requirement analysis, test result and metrics analysis, prepare status reports, and root cause analysis. Manage global testing teams. Work on test automation related activities that include AI and other tools such as FAST, with the goal of converting manual cases into automated scripts. Create resource or capacity plans and provide an analysis and estimate of upcoming projects to determine the team's capacity and allocation to each agile squad. Monitor quality assurance and risk management by tracking tests and defects to uphold quality standards and mitigate risks. Act as the primary client contact for test-related matters, interface daily with clients to align objectives and maintain project standards. Create comprehensive test artifacts and provide leadership with regular updates and insights for decision-making. Responsible for process improvement and training including leading initiatives to improve processes and conduct training sessions to enhance team skills. Manage ALM tools and Jira workflows, track KPIs, and reporting progress. Coordinate test environments and vendors to meet project needs. Collaborate with development, analysis, and project teams to integrate testing seamlessly. Lead the development and execution of test strategies for critical banking programs, ensuring alignment with project goals and industry best practices. Ensure test strategies provide clear guidelines and approach for the UAT (User acceptance team), ensuring proper execution within each Agile squad per PO expectations. Attend scrum and agile cadence meetings to ensure test quality; review results with product owners for transparency. Create scorecards for each squad and release to evaluate performance, identify best actions, and apply lessons learned to future releases. Incorporate the latest automation tools and AI practices in optimizing test cases and execution strategies that will increase testing capacity, coverage and accuracy. Utilize: Scrum Framework, Jira, User Acceptance Testing, Selenium, SQL, Agile Methodology, Application Lifecycle Management. Required: Master's degree or equivalent in Engineering, Computer Science or related (employer will accept a Bachelor's degree plus five (5) years of progressive experience in lieu of a Master's degree) and one (1) year of experience as a Business Analyst, QA/Test Analyst or related. One (1) year of experience must include utilizing Scrum Framework, Jira, User Acceptance Testing, Selenium, SQL, Agile Methodology, Application Lifecycle Management. $193199 to $225000 per year. Please send resumes to recruitad@us.ibm.com. Applicants must reference V221 in the subject line.