QA Lead

Taco Bell, a part of Yum! Brands, has been repeatedly named as one of the Best Places to Work in Orange County. We have high standards for ourselves; Yum commits to consistently deliver 10% EPS growth each year. Our success comes from the belief that our people's capabilities are our greatest asset, and investing in you is our top priority.

Yum! Brands, Inc. is the world's largest restaurant company with more than 38,000 restaurants in over 100 countries and territories and more than 850,000 employees worldwide. We are the leading restaurant retailer in many emerging markets. Our restaurant brands -- KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell -- are the global leaders of the chicken, pizza and Mexican-style food categories respectively.

Job Description Position Overview:

The QA team is responsible for ensuring the quality of all restaurant technology prior to deployment to all company owned and franchised restaurants, which in turn affects store level operations. The QA Analyst is accountable for ensuring ?Restaurant Ready? solutions by creating and executing test plans to verify and validate restaurant technology.

Job Functions:

- Lead a QA team in a professional software environment
- Direct, motivate and grow team members
- Managing/overseeing daily activities and monitoring of work performance of assigned staff
- Prepare and execute hardware and software test plans and automated test scripts
- Develop and maintain appropriate test environments and labs Participate in the peer review of design document Execute test cases, both manual and automated and clearly document issues
- Lab test, store test and market test restaurant software and hardware
- Provide hardware and software support to field operations and all internal RIS teams.
- Perform SQL data queries to define and validate test scripts.
- Document, track and report hardware and software defects via automated QA tracking tool.
- Work with development teams to resolve hardware and software issues.
- Work with project teams and clients to ensure correct functionality has been developed.
- Provide input for field training documentation and train internal support teams
- Travel as necessary to provide on-site software support and for training purposes

Minimum Requirements

- BA/BS degree in Computer Science or related field
- 5-7 years in a professional QA role, at least 2 of which are in a leadership role
- Proven leadership and people growing experience
- Experience with test toolset. Quality Center, QTP, and LoadRunner preferred.
- Technical experience in Linux, Windows operating systems, SQL, DB2, XML and networking are required.
- The ability to read and understand business, functional, and technical specifications as well as other technical documents.
- Proficient in developing test plans and cases from requirements, functional and technical design documentation.
- Good organizational skills & ability to multitask well
- Strong oral and written communication skills
- Strong problem solving ability