Lead QA Architect

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Department

Digital Insights OU

Role/Responsibilities

**What will your day be like?**
- Dedicating time to building and improving overall company testing strategy.
- You will be building and leading a team of engineers through hiring, coaching, mentoring, feedback, and hands-on career development.
- Grow a healthy, collaborate engineering culture in line with company values
- You will work on a mixture of automated and manual QA testing to ensure our products are ready to ship.
- You will be responsible for end-to-end testing on web and mobile products in a variety of industries. This includes UI testing, API testing, performance testing, and accessibility testing.
- You will be working alongside other passionate engineers; both developers and designers and can communicate with them effectively.
- You will work closely with the team and have opportunities to help improve our practices and approaches to building apps.

**Qualifications**:
**What are we looking for?**
- You have at least 3 years of experience with one or more automated testing

tools. Right now, we are using Cypress, Postman/Newman, JMeter/Taurus. It
is really about the best approach to the problem, and we want to continue
growing and evolving with technology.
- You have a working knowledge of at least one of the following programming

languages: JavaScript, TypeScript, and/or Python.
- You have functional experience with querying databases MongoDB,

DynamoDB, or SQL.
- Experience or drive to learn about AWS (Amazon Web Services) and how

infrastructure integrates with automating testing.
- You love being a QA and enjoy analyzing and solving problems. You want to do more than write and execute tests.
- You may have experience creating POCs (Proof of Concept) to try out new tools and solve problems unique to our clients is awesome, but not required.
- You are curious, or skeptical, and you like to ask questions. You also know when to stop and ask for help.
- You have a solid understanding of the SDLC and are delivery focused.
- You want to ship something to users, get their feedback and iterate. The drive to ship something enables you to take down obstacles and break hard problems into solvable chunks so that you can make forward progress.

**What do we offer?**
- Monthly AWS Workshops
- Ability to work with new innovative serverless architecture
- “Hybrid” work - the opportunity and the flexibility to work in the way that works best for you, whether that be in the office, remote, or a mix of the two
- A people-first culture with a relaxed environment. We like to say we treat people like adults here, meaning we trust your judgment and your ability.
- Must be fully vaccinated for COVID-19 (i.e., at least 2 weeks after last dose) and, if hired, present proof of vaccination on start date, as determined by Moody’s.For San Francisco positions, qualified applicants with criminal histories will be considered for employment consistent with the requirements of the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.

This position may be considered a promotional opportunity, pursuant to the Colorado Equal Pay for Equal Work Act.

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- For Colorado-based roles only: the anticipated base salary range for this position is $131,500 to $190,600, depending on factors such as experience, education, level, skills, and location. This range is based on a full-time position. In addition to base salary, this role is eligible for annual performance incentive compensation. Moody’s also offers a competitive benefits package, including not but limited to medical, dental, vision, parental leave, paid time off, a 401(k) plan with employee and company contribution opportunities, life, disability, and accident insurance, a discounted employee stock purchase plan, and tuition reimbursement.