Job Description
Job Title: Java Technical Lead (Quality Engineering & Automation)
Duration: 12 months Contract
Location: New Orleans, LA 70112
Description:
Job Overview
We are seeking a hands-on Java Technical Lead to drive the development and delivery of robust, Java-based applications within an Agile environment with 7+ years of experience. In this role, you will bridge the gap between high-level architecture and hands-on implementation, ensuring that our software meets rigorous quality and performance standards. You will lead a diverse scrum team, engage with Architects and Product Owners to refine requirements, and research technical solutions to meet evolving business needs.
Major Accountabilities & Responsibilities
Core Development:
Duration: 12 months Contract
Location: New Orleans, LA 70112
Description:
Job Overview
We are seeking a hands-on Java Technical Lead to drive the development and delivery of robust, Java-based applications within an Agile environment with 7+ years of experience. In this role, you will bridge the gap between high-level architecture and hands-on implementation, ensuring that our software meets rigorous quality and performance standards. You will lead a diverse scrum team, engage with Architects and Product Owners to refine requirements, and research technical solutions to meet evolving business needs.
Major Accountabilities & Responsibilities
- Technical Leadership: Lead day-to-day system development and maintenance. Manage complex assignments with long-term business implications and guide teams through bottlenecks and choke-points to meet sprint velocity SLAs.
- Strategic Planning: Develop technical roadmaps and prioritize stories across quarterly PI planning sessions. Partner with Solution Architects to drive implementation flows and lead code grooming/review sessions.
- Quality Engineering & Automation: Drive QE methodologies by maintaining daily automation regression suites. Ensure comprehensive coverage across Unit, System, Integration, and Performance testing.
- Process Improvement: Conduct Quality Inspections and walkthroughs across the SDLC (Requirements, Architecture, Design, and Security). Identify opportunities to improve effectiveness and time-to-market.
- Mentorship & Team Growth: Mentor junior engineers, provide technical training, and host "Brownbag" sessions on emerging technologies and frameworks.
- Production Excellence: Lead production incident management, including root cause analysis (RCA) and remediation.
Core Development:
- Languages: Java (Advanced OOP concepts)
- Frameworks: Spring Framework, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud (Cloud Config, Cloud Foundry) — Must Have
- Build/Version Tools: Maven (goals, dependencies, versioning), BitBucket (Git)
- Quality Engineering & Automation:
- API Automation: BDD framework using JBehave
- GUI Automation: Selenium WebDriver
- Testing Tools: Insomnia, SoapUI, and Postman (Manual REST/SOAP testing)
- Database Testing: DBVisualizer (PgSQL and Oracle)
- Unit Testing: JUnit
- Infrastructure & Management:
- CI/CD: Jenkins
- Defect Tracking: Jira / ALM
- OS: Unix (RedHat, Mint)
- Industry Experience: Proven experience delivering secure solutions within the Financial Services Sector is highly preferred.
- Methodology: Advanced understanding of Software Engineering Methodologies and Quality Engineering principles.
- Testing Specialty: Experience testing Network Management Systems (NMS) and operating as a Software Engineer in Test (SET).
- Agile Expertise: Experience leading Agile scrum teams through the full SDLC.
- Environment: Must be comfortable working in a matrix-based, geographically distributed team.
- Education: Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
- Location/Time Zone: Candidates must be located in or able to support CST or EST time zones.
- Soft Skills: High-energy and proactive with strong communication skills. Ability to function under pressure and interface effectively with both technical stakeholders and end-users.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | New Orleans, LA |
| Industry | Other/Not Classified |
| Salary | $45 Per Hour |
| Company Size | 100 to 499 employees |
| Year Founded | 1998 |
| Website | www.eteaminc.com |
About Company
Looking for a great job? Join eTeam. We’re looking for talented staffing professionals to join our staff. We also provide contract assignments and full-time jobs at Fortune 2000 Companies. We’ve been named one of the best companies to work for by Staffing Industry Analysts and New Jersey Business.
Skills
- Agile Programming Methodologiesunmatched
- Application Programming Interface (API)unmatched
- Atlassian JIRAunmatched
- Automationunmatched
- Bug Tracking/Defect Managementunmatched
- Cloud Computingunmatched
- Code Reviewsunmatched
- Communication Skillsunmatched
- Computer Scienceunmatched
- Continuous Deployment/Deliveryunmatched
- Continuous Integrationunmatched
- Emerging Technologyunmatched
- Establish Prioritiesunmatched
- Financial Servicesunmatched
- Gitunmatched
- Graphical User Interface (GUI)unmatched
- High Level Architecture (HLA)unmatched
- Incident Managementunmatched
- Information Technology & Information Systemsunmatched
- Insomniaunmatched
- Integration Testingunmatched
- JUnitunmatched
- Javaunmatched
- Jenkinsunmatched
- Leadershipunmatched
- Mail Servicesunmatched
- Mavenunmatched
- Mentoringunmatched
- Network Management Softwareunmatched
- Network Testingunmatched
- Object Oriented Programming (OOP)unmatched
- Operating Systemsunmatched
- Oracleunmatched
- Performance Testingunmatched
- Process Improvementunmatched
- Quality Controlunmatched
- Quality Engineeringunmatched
- REST (Representational State Transfer)unmatched
- Red Hat Linux Operating Systemunmatched
- Root Cause Analysisunmatched
- SET (Secure Electronic Transaction)unmatched
- SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol)unmatched
- Scrum Project Management and Software Developmentunmatched
- Seleniumunmatched
- Service Level Agreement (SLA)unmatched
- Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)unmatched
- Software Engineeringunmatched
- Software Testingunmatched
- Spring Frameworkunmatched
- Strategic Planningunmatched
- System Integration (SI)unmatched
- Systems Maintenanceunmatched
- Team Lead/Managerunmatched
- Technical Leadershipunmatched
- Technical Researchunmatched
- Technical Trainingunmatched
- Test Toolsunmatched
- Testingunmatched
- Unit Testunmatched
- Unix Operating Systemsunmatched
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