Shell Recharge Solutions is seeking a Lead Software Test Engineer I to lead and mentor a QA team, ensure quality processes are followed, and drive test automation and performance testing initiatives. The role involves overseeing testing cycles, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and contributing to scalable EV charging software solutions in a dynamic, innovative environment.
Responsibilities
- Mentor engineer and Sr. Engineers through weekly 1:1
- Track QA sign offs for each of the testing cycles
- Interview new hires in QA department
- Create KT and other transition plans
- Work with QA managers on release schedules
- Delegate and distribute tasks to QA engineers like test case writing and reviews
- Review manual and automation test cases
- Conduct lessons learned / retrospective meetings
- Run daily stand-up calls with QA teams
- Work with other leads on standardizing process across QA teams
- Direct collaboration with the performance engineer for environment and services health and analysis
- Maintain QA documents, templates and job aids
- Assess capacity and allocate resources for all releases and test cycles
- Review task estimation by engineers
- Create dashboards and work on optimization plans and future roadmaps
- Provide detailed weekly report on project status and scope
- Innovative technical leadership demonstrated via enhancements, suggestion and/or engagement
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science/ Engineering or 5+ years of Engineering experience
- 7+ years overall QA experience, at least 3 years as a Senior QA Engineer – individual contributor
- 3+ years current experience leading projects and teams
- 3+ years writing automated tests
- 2+ years interacting with development team, program management, and DevOps/SRE when launching features and releases
- 5+ years of experience working with AWS, Linux, networked systems and databases
- High engagement, high collaboration, and positive working relationship with QA
- manager
- High engagement, high collaboration, and positive working relationship with other Peers, PGM, RM
- Excellent track record of clear, value test additions and documentation
- Mastery of implementing and navigating Agile process and procedures
- Proactive in scheduling necessary meetings, without direction and implementing solutions
- Confident communicator in multiple contexts (presentations, meetings, etc)
- Strong knowledge of automation tools
- Work with different departments and upstream and downstream stakeholders like DevOps, Dev leads, Engineering Managers, TMP teams and others
- Collaboration and direct engagement with other QA leads for proper coverage and gap analysis
Nice to Have
- Experience with white/gray/black box and automation test methods
- Demonstrated experience in test planning for complex features/systems
- Experience in writing, executing and monitoring test suites using a variety of technologies including, but not limited to, Cucumber, Selenium, ReadyAPI, Postman, Robot Framework
- Ability to track multiple test executions simultaneously and to be able to synthesize the results
- Must be comfortable reading and writing in code
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to provide technical mentorship to other QA engineers
- Lead test strategy, automation, and performance testing efforts
- Performance testing is nice to have
- Mentor engineers and champion best practices in QA
- Drive UI automation with Selenium, API testing with selenium rest assured andPostman, and performance testing with Jmeter
- Hands-on expertise in automation frameworks such as Selenium, Playwright, or similar
- Excellent problem-solving, collaboration, and leadership skills
- Very good Testing Tools and Technologies understanding: Docker, Kubernetes, Postman, Jenkins, Java, Eclipse / IntelliJ IDEA, TestNG, Selenium, SQL, Jira
- 5+yrs of JAVA /Core JAVA programming
- Knowledge of continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) practices
- Leverage AI-first testing approaches to reduce reliance on manual test scripts
- Improve test execution within CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, containers, cloud) for enhanced speed and scalability
- Apply AI/GenAI tools (e.g., Copilot) to accelerate automation and deliver rapid results
Tech Stack
AWS, Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, Postman, Jenkins, Java, Eclipse, IntelliJ IDEA, TestNG, Selenium, SQL, Jira, Cucumber, ReadyAPI, Robot Framework, Playwright, Jmeter, Selenium Rest Assured
Team
Team size: team of engineers
