The Next Generation Audit (NGA) project aims to develop an enhanced version of the audit system to support PwC auditors globally. The NGA project is a multi-year global initiative aimed at transforming audit systems through automation, AI augmentation, and agile delivery. The QA Lead will play a pivotal role in ensuring quality across both functional and automation streams, collaborating with cross-functional teams and driving excellence in testing practices.

🎯 Role Overview

As QA Lead, you will:

• Oversee the quality assurance strategy for NGA features and components.
• Lead a team of functional and automation testers, ensuring alignment with project goals.
• Collaborate with developers, product owners, and business analysts to define and validate acceptance criteria by using AI tools.
• Efficiently communicate, explain testing ideas, strictly follow and improve to SDLC
• Own the test planning, execution, and reporting across multiple environments and platforms.
• Be working with other QA´s to document the quality processes for replication in other projects.
• Be making improvements to functionality, design, and usability of new products.

🛠 Required Skills

• AI first approach when accomplishing assigned tasks.
• Very good English for daily communication
• Strong communication skills and be self-motivated.
• 6+ years experience in QA.
• Mindset of consultant - propose innovations, explain reasons for change, guide non-technical people
• Ability to work with team from US time-zone, position is more suitable who likes to wake up later/not an early bird)
• Strong analytical skills, attention to detail, debugging, and problem solving skills.
• Solid understanding of the software development lifecycle on an JADx team (like an Agile team).
• Experience in creating effective test plans
• Experience in creating test plans based on e2e scenarios

✅ Functional Testing

• Strong understanding of SDLC, Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban), and QA processes.
• Experience in manual test case creation, execution, and defect tracking.
• Familiarity with Azure DevOps for test management and reporting.
• Understanding of Azure DevOps Pipelines - both, build and deployment.
• Ability to interpret business requirements and translate them into test scenarios by using AI tools.
  

🤖 Automation Testing

• Proficiency in Playwright.js - mandatory, Cypress, Selenium, Appium, and WebdriverIO.
• Experience with API testing using Postman and Newman and Performance testing.
• Demonstrate an understanding of how to design automation tests for abstraction, scalability, and reusability.
• Ability to establish the scope for different testing types, such as smoke testing and regression testing.
• Strong sense of responsibility and commitment.
• Ability to self sufficiently and proactively look for solutions.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, GitLab, and Docker from QA perspective.
• Knowledge of automation architecture, including reusable frameworks and page object models.
• Hands-on experience with C#, JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, HTML and CSS.
• Prompt engineering for AI tools like Cursor

🧰 Tools & Frameworks

• Azure DevOps – Boards, Queries, Pipelines, Test Plans.
• Playwright, Cypress, Selenium – UI and E2E testing.
• GitHub/GitLab – Version control and CI/CD integration.
• AI Tools, - Copilot, Cursor, Claude.
• Postman/Newman – API testing and automation.
• JMeter, Blazemeter – Performance testing.
• NuGet, Detox.js, Maestro.js – Specialized automation tools.

📋 Responsibilities

• Define and implement QA strategy for NGA features and releases.
• Lead test automation initiatives, including framework design and script development.
• Manage functional testing efforts, ensuring coverage and traceability.
• Mentor testers and promote best practices across the team.
• Collaborate with offshore teams and manage distributed QA resources.
• Ensure quality gates are met before release and own sign-off processes.

👥 Team Collaboration

• Coordinating with team, product owners, and technical leads to align testing with delivery timelines.

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