QA Lead

Title: QA Lead
Location: San Francisco, CA ( Hybrid 1-2 day onsite)
Type: 12 Contract
Client: Sephora

Responsibilities

• Serve as technical lead throughout the full development lifecycle, end-to-end, from scoping, planning, conception, design, implementation and testing, to documentation, delivery and maintenance.
• Ensure schedules, milestones, and priorities are compatible with technology and business goals.
• Build and foster a high-performance engineering culture, mentor team members and provide team with the tools to be successful in their day to day work life
• Establish and support engineering excellence practices. Provide design reviews for other engineers, including feedback on architecture and design issues, as well as integration, performance and scalability
• Drive the architecture and design of large-scale, multi-tiered software applications, tools, systems and services using object-oriented design principals, data structures, algorithms, and: C/C++ or Java.
• Gather business and functional requirements from external and/or internal customers and end-users, and translate requirements into technical specifications to build robust, scalable, supportable solutions that work well between a range of complex systems
• Build collaborative partnerships with architects, technical leads and key individuals within other functional groups
• Work with stakeholders and cross-functional teams to develop new solutions or enhance existing solution
• Demonstrate our Sephora values of Passion for Client Service, Innovation, Expertise, Balance, Respect for All, Teamwork, and Initiative

• 10+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
• 3+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience, first-hand experience in designing, deploying and managing Java micro services and RESTful APIs, Spring, Spring Boot frameworks, and other related technologies
• Strong hands-on experience in designing and deploying cloud-based applications using micro services architecture and best practices preferably on MS Azure cloud platform
• Working experience with Kubernetes Container Orchestration, Istio service mesh, Feign client for third party calls, service discovery, Prometheus and Azure logging
• Implemented monitoring and alerts dashboards using Splunk, Nagios and App Dynamics
• Hands-on experience with queueing and streaming solutions such as Kafka, JMS, Coherence, etc
• Hands-on experience with MS SQL, MySQL, NoSQL Postgres, Redis databases as high-performance cloud IaaS and PaaS setup
• Ability to identify performance bottlenecks and use good coding standards and design patterns to avoid them in the first place
• Working experience with CI/CD pipelines, building regression-able code using GitHub, Jenkins and other dev ops related tools & applications
• Analytical approach to problem-solving with an ability to work at an abstract level and gain consensus; excellent interpersonal, leadership and communication skills
• Highly self-motivated, independent, efficient and able to handle several projects; work under pressure with a solid sense for setting priorities
• Ability to work in a fast-paced (startup like) agile development environment
• Experience working in the retail industry with a large-scale enterprise organization, ecommerce, marketing and self-serviceable applications will be a plus
• BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent; MS preferred