Quality Assurance and Testing Specialist

At Owens Corning, we strive every day to make the world a better place. Our track record, now surpassing 75 years, shows sustained results in this pursuit. Our history also shows market-leading businesses in insulation, roofing and fiberglass composites.

The Quality Assurance (QA) & Testing Lead Specialist will connect across the global Owens Corning GIS organization. This individual will interact with operational and development teams leveraging several methodologies and/or frameworks (ex: ITIL, Agile and Waterfall). The QA & Testing Lead Specialist will partner with these teams to operate, educate and implement proven QA & Testing methods and tools. He/she will experiment with other methods and tools to further enable the Owens Corning GIS strategy.

QA & Testing Capability Stewardship (65%)

• Manage execution of day to day operations; could involve managing 3rd party resources and providing backup testing tool/application support
• Execute, deploy, and maintain QA & Testing standards and policies
• Design and implement functional & performance automation scenarios
• Manage & maintain testing assets
• Drive and track the automation and execution of performance and regression test assets to ensure adequate coverage
• Drive and track procedures for creation and maintenance of manual test assets to ensure sustainability and coverage
• Identify and implement improvement initiatives to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of testing tools and processes

Deliver QA & Testing Strategy and Service (25%)

• Develop QA & Testing standards & policies
• Consult with teams to raise the acumen of QA & Testing capabilities
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners on the development of appropriate testing strategies
• Validate quality of test plans and scenarios
• Design and implement measurement/metrics
• Design and implement automation strategy for GIS projects
• Design and implement test data management strategy supporting performance and functional testing

Project Participation (as needed)

• Lead or participate in testing activities for key global projects requiring a high level of testing science
• Transition the sustainment of post project testing scenarios to support organizations
• Manage 3rd party resources executing functional and performance testing

• Bachelors Degree
• Minimum 5 years working in Information Systems

Experience:

• 1- 2 years application/software testing
• Experience in end to end software development life cycle (Design, Development and Deployment)
• Experience with the following tools preferred (HP QC/ALM, HP PC/LoadRunner, SAP TAO, SAP Solution Manager, Jenkins, Atlassian toolset, GitHub)

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

• Process knowledge of application testing science
• Demonstrated project management
• Demonstrated meeting facilitation
• Relationship building and collaboration
• Business requirements translation to technical solution specifications
• Knowledge of basic Lean, Six Sigma concepts & methodologies