Quality Assurance Manager

Job Description

We are looking for a detail-oriented Quality Assurance Manager to lead a team of QA Analysts focused on quality and quality-related development work related to Sinclair's RSN and Corporate applications and integrations. You will work alongside the Sinclair product teams to acquire in-depth knowledge of how each application works in terms of business logic, security aspects, development environments, and production environments. You will provide input into test strategies, document areas for improvement in design, and assist in corrective action in all stages of the product lifecycle.

Responsibilities:
Operations, Collaboration & Partnerships
• Lead a team of QA Analysts working across several Scrum development teams supporting a portfolio of corporate and broadcast-related applications and integrations.
• Recommend and assist in corrective actions taken at all stages of product life
• Submit and track production (maintenance) and release issues
• Review functional and design specifications to ensure full understanding of deliverables
• Estimate, prioritize, plan and coordinate testing efforts across multiple projects
• Oversee all lifecycles of the testing process including, test planning, test case documentation, data configuration, progress reporting and test schedules.
• Oversee and contribute to software testing solutions via automated and manual means
• Manage defect backlog, ensuring proper documentation and tracking through resolution.
• Collaborate with development team and business to troubleshoot issues
• Ensure projects meet customer requirements and objectives

Performance Improvement
• Help the software applications team to maintain a high level of excellence
• Develop, standardize and refine test case standards, methodologies and sustainable processes
• Develop, standardize and evaluate performance metrics to establish process success
• Design, document and implement procedures and techniques that are consistent with best practices for analyzing, testing, and evaluating the risk (software & business), accuracy, completeness, internal integrity/consistency, testability and overall quality of systems.
• Research emerging technologies and identify opportunities for adoption
• Track operations and constantly look for ways to make things work better, faster, and smoother

Qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree in IT discipline or equivalent work experience
• 5+ years of application testing experience
• Experience reporting, regressing and reproducing software problems
• Experience with relational databases (administration and T-SQL); understanding of SQL and ability to query/validate sets of data
• Experience testing 3rd party applications, determining root cause, and partnering with 3rd party vendors to resolve issues
• Experience working with a formal Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) process
• Agile experience preferred
• Experience in both front and back-end testing
• Familiarity and experience with browser-based testing tools such as Selenium, Robot Framework, CodedUI, etc. preferred
• Experience using one or more of the following tools a plus: Jira, Azure DevOps, Microsoft Test Manager, Jenkins, Visual Studio / Git, ServiceNow
• Thrive in a fast-paced and demanding environment, possess a high level of intellectual curiosity, and demonstrate strong judgment in the face of ambiguity

Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc. is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and Drug Free Workplace!

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-g677e8-18-119-133-228-42 in your application.