Lead IT Analyst

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The Lead IT Analyst – Quality Governance will be leading all aspects of Quality Governance including estimate templates, NFR templates, test strategies, test cases, Jira templates, decision matrices, test environments, and development of quality analysis dashboard. The Lead need to support large‑scale analysis of test executions in both agile and waterfall SDLC paradigms to evaluate quality and adherence to defect tracking standards for various Ulta on‑prem & cloud systems, SaaS systems and Infrastructure using a variety of tools such as Jira, Confluence, Power

BI, etc. The Lead is responsible for managing both the timelines & resources for each project and must be capable of working hands‑on as needed. The Lead will work alongside Architects, Technical Leads, Software Engineers, and Quality Engineers in a highly dynamic, fast paced, and collaborative environment to deliver high quality solutions.

• Be a thought leader, motivate and provide direction to the quality engineering team as well as other participants of the project by building strong relationships across organizational boundaries and by ensuring a positive experience for all involved
• Design and implement solutions to analyze and report on the overall quality maturity of various application teams across a defined set of categories.
• Lead the creation and execution of test strategy templates by analyzing common test requirements, test conditions, data strategies, and acceptance criteria and assumptions.
• Deliver the tasks as defined in the approved test plan and per the defined schedule by maintaining records of relevant information.
• Design, Develop and Maintain an environment strategy that considers the various systems, release timelines, and overall environment readiness
• Develop the data strategy for defining and managing consistent data sets for quality testing across different applications and environments.
• Lead the quality test team and collaborate with business & other IT partners for delivering the tasks on time and with quality.
• Act as a single point of contact by developing, maintaining, and working to stakeholder engagement strategies and plans by facilitating open communication and discussion.
• Ensure all quality related risks are reported, escalated, and managed through to resolution.

• Evaluate quality related patterns and trends.
• Align with product owners and project managers to help prioritize quality best practices as it relates to observed patterns and trends.
• Drive quality engineering as an integral part of SDLC.
• Contribution to continuous improvement of performance testing standards and processes.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, MIS/CIS or equivalent professional experience
• Must have Quality Engineering as the primary competency and comfortable to act as a hands‑on lead and by managing a quality testing team spread across onshore & offshore
• Must have 5+ years of progressive quality engineering experience in waterfall, agile and hybrid delivery models using both automated and manual testing tools.
• Must have experience working with product/agile teams.
• Expert level proficiency in Estimation, NFR gathering, Test Plan, Workload models, Test Scenario Design, Test Environment setup, Test Data Setup,…