Quality Engineering Lead

Your Job Georgia-Pacific's Software Engineering & Integration team (SE&I) is seeking a Quality Engineering Lead to join the team in Atlanta, GA. You will lead a global team of contribution motivated Quality Engineers who partner with SE&I engineers and architects across the company. Lead the testing effort for multiple product teams by effectively analyzing business requirements, developing advanced test automation strategies, mentoring junior engineers, and ensuring the highest quality of mobile and web applications. You will collaborate closely with Customers, Product Owners, and Developers to resolve issues and drive continuous improvement. You will also provide strategic insights and updates to Customers and IT professionals, document best-practice QA Automation processes, and assure the quality of large initiatives like Save My Life (SML) or Catalyst.

Our Team GP's Software Engineering & Integration team's core competency is designing, building, delivering, and maintaining custom software solutions. We recently initiated our transformation journey, creating functions and capabilities that enable engineers to have a major impact on GP's business performance. We seek to build functionality once, so engineers are encouraged to re-use their peers' work and modify then scale it to meet new use cases. We focus on delivering profitable business outcomes by partnering with business analysts, delivery leaders, and quality engineers to build the right solution at the right speed.

What You Will Do

Quality Assurance:

• Define and enforce quality standards and best practices for testing.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure quality is embedded throughout the development lifecycle.
• Conduct regular reviews and audits of test processes and outcomes.

Tooling and Frameworks:

• Identify, evaluate, and integrate appropriate testing tools such as Playwright, Cypress, ADO, Postman, Rest Assured, etc. that align with SE&I's goals and testing processes.
• Consolidate existing test tools to streamline processes and improve efficiency.
• Develop and implement best practices and reference implementation for tool usage and adoption.

Test Automation:

• Design and develop automated test frameworks to improve efficiency and coverage.
• Establish guidelines and best practices for test automation that can be used as a reference for future projects. Mentor and guide the team in best practices for test automation.
• Coach Developer's and QE's on best practices for unit testing, Test-Driven Development (TDD), Behavior-Driven Development (BDD), and other testing methodologies to ensure high-quality, maintainable code and robust software development processes

Shift-Left Approach:

• Champion the shift-left approach by integrating Quality Engineering best practices into development.
• Assist development teams in adopting these standards to ensure early detection and resolution of defects.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• IT experience with focus in Software Testing and Quality Engineering.
• Experience in design and development of modern UI test frameworks from scratch using tools such as Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, Appium, TOSCA or WD I/O and API test frameworks using Postman, Rest Assured etc..
• Experience in test architecture and strategy development.
• Experience in developing performance test frameworks using modern tool stack such as Jmeter/K6
• Experience with Test Management tools such as ADO/QTest/Jira and Test data management tools such as Delphix
• Must have legal authorization to work permanently in the United States for any employer without requiring a visa transfer or visa sponsorship

What Will Put You Ahead

• Bachelor's Degree or higher in Computer/Software Engineering, Computer Science, or Management Information Systems
• Previous experience as a QE Lead
• Experience with establishing QE practices on large scale SAP implementations
• Experience with cloud technologies such as AWS
• Experience in agile methodologies.

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Hiring Philosophy
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Who We Are

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Our Benefits
Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.

Equal Opportunities
Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, all offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please visit the following website for additional information: http://www.kochcareers.com/doc/Everify.pdf

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