| || urgent need QA Lead || Local only Boston, MA (2-3 days) || at Boston, Massachusetts, USA |
| Email: [email protected] |
| From: Balram Kumar Singh, Spear Staffing LLC [email protected] Reply to: [email protected] Role- QA Lead Location: Boston, MA (2-3 days) Duration: 12 months Work Authorization: All The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) seeks a Fare System Quality Assurance Lead to support the Fare Transformation program. About the MBTA and the Fare Transformation Project: The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority is Americas fifth largest transit system offering multi-modal transportation services to 175 member cities and towns and 4.7 million residents across a 3,200 square mile area. It is a public authority and political subdivision of the Commonwealth. The MBTA operates heavy rail, light rail, commuter rail, bus, and commuter boat services. The MBTAs new fare payment system will make paying for transit services in Massachusetts easier and more convenient with a full replacement of the MBTAs automated fare collection system (the CharlieCard system). The new system will include new hardware in stations, on vehicles and at other locations throughout the MBTA service network and will be supported by a new back office. It will improve how the MBTA currently collects fares and enable the sort of changes the T wants to make in the future. More information about the project and its benefits to customers is available at www.mbta.com/fare-transformation About the Position: The Fare System Quality Assurance Lead Fare Transformation will have overall responsibility for compliance demonstration, quality assurance, and defect resolution for the new MBTA fare system. They will lead test strategy, monitor vendors progress towards demonstrating compliance with contractual requirements, manage QA activities, oversee test development and execution, manage the prioritization and handling of defects, and hold vendor accountable for maintaining test equipment in the test lab. They will work across all technical components including fare collection devices, fare vending machines, payments technology, website and mobile app, customer support software, retail solution, APIs, integrations with other internal and external systems, tap processing, and information security. There are two positions available. Primary Responsibilities: Lead test strategy, balancing priorities such as test coverage, test quality, competing demands, and project schedule. Track, measure, and report on progress identifying, writing, and executing tests, and resolving defects. Identify systemic problems, inefficiencies, risks, and opportunities for improvement; work with workstream leads and vendor to develop and implement plans to address. Work with workstream leads and with vendor to set overall testing approach for different functional areas. Manage review of test scripts and witnessing of test execution by the vendor. Plan, coordinate, and conduct ad hoc testing independently from the vendor in both the lab and the field. [SM3] Evaluate completeness of test coverage. Collaborate with workstream leads on implications of design changes to test scripts and implications of test findings to design. Monitor progress of vendor's compliance with contractual requirements. Evaluate ways to demonstrate compliance with a requirement. Review certifications and test waiver requests. Manage the compliance matrix, which tracks vendor progress toward meeting over 7,000 contractual requirements. Notify stakeholders of updates to compliance matrix, coordinate their review of changes, and manage preparation of comments and their transmittal to vendor. Manage defect handling, including reporting, prioritization, tracking, and validating resolution. Provide written and verbal explanations of technical issues non-technical stakeholders, clearly conveying information about impact to users and agency operations. [SM4] Work with vendor to track, communicate, and validate deployment of features and bugfixes to lab environment. Hold vendor accountable for lab hardware and software availability. Minimum Requirements: Five (5) years of experience in quality assurance, vendor management, and/or technology design/testing/implementation/operation. Experience with developing, implementing and/or overseeing test plans and test reports. Ability to understand, interpret, and apply rules, regulations, policies, procedures, contracts and technical requirements. Effective organizational, analytical, time management, interpersonal and multi-tasking skills; attention to detail. Experience using online collaboration and tracking tools (e.g. Slack, Asana, Basecamp, Jira, etc.) The ability to work effectively with a diverse workforce. Preferences: Strong knowledge of software QA methodologies, tools and processes. Experience with software testing, including front-end, back-end and integrations. Experience with quality assurance for specialized devices/hardware. Experience working with the output of a development team who you do not directly supervise and cannot directly control. Experience with performance and/or security testing. Experience working in transportation, with a government agency, or with payment technology. Experience with defining, writing and enforcing technical requirements. Thanks and regards Balram Kumar Singh Sr Technical Recruiter Email:- [email protected] Website:- www.spearstaffing.com This message and any attachments are intended only for the use of the addressee and may contain information that is privileged and confidential. If the reader of the message is not the intended recipient or an authorized representative of the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, notify the sender immediately by return email and delete the message and any attachments from your system. Keywords: quality analyst active directory information technology Massachusetts || urgent need QA Lead || Local only Boston, MA (2-3 days) || [email protected] |
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