SaaS Automation Engineer / QA Manager

We are looking for a Quality Assurance (QA) Head who is a strong leader with experience in implementing and shaping the company’s QA processes and strategies

Job Skills -

● QA Management experience across multiple projects, off-shore and in-house.

● Be a strong leader with experience in implementing and shaping the company’s QA processes and strategies.

● Have strong technical skills, both functional and non-functional, manual and automation, ideally in a continuous delivery environment.

● Strong communication skills with all the key stakeholders to ensure QA vision is understood and implemented correctly.

● Be an advocate of Quality Assurance, Continuous Improvement and industry recognized Best Practices.

● Excellent knowledge of Risk Management, Risk Identification and Risked Based Testing.

● Experience managing testing departments or testing functions, managing large and complex activities and processes.

● Flexible with the ability to and work under pressure.

● Proactive, strong-minded, quick thinker and assertive.

● Able to motivate a team, recognize good talent and bring out the best out of each individual.

● A mature and professional individual who is self-motivated and enthusiastic.

● Excellent communicator, influencing skills and negotiation skills to get management buy-in on ideas and concepts.

● Able to communicate with all levels of management and peers within the organization.

● Providing leadership

● Building and maintaining relationships.

● The ability to prioritize work and tasks under pressure.

● Ability to handle conflict effectively.

● Ability to build, implement and direct quality assurance principles and maintain the quality of delivery.

Requirements

Job Responsibilities -

● Responsible for Defining QA strategy, approach and execution in development projects.

● Responsible for Leading and directing the QA leadership team.

● Provide leadership and technical expertise within Test Automation and Quality Assurance.

● Be accountable for the test automation projects, mentor, and provide leadership to the QA automation developers and managers.

● Participate in interviews, induction, training and performance evaluation of all QA leads.

● Provide technical leadership and expertise within the field of Quality Assurance and Testing.

● Ensuring that the development teams adhere to the principles, guidelines and best practices of the QA strategy as defined.

● Focus on continuous QA improvements including usage of appropriate testing tools, test techniques, test automation.

● Building and maintenance of quality standards as well as enforcing technical and testing standards.

● Monitoring of all the QA activities, test results, leaked defects, root cause analysis and identifying areas of improvement. Implement steps required to improve the processes.

● Gather and present testing metrics and testing activities for the projects to key stakeholders.

● Ensure the proper usage of available tools to gain the maximum benefit of the QA effort. This includes testing tools for functional, performance, automation, etc.

● Manage training and continuous learning of QA staff by means of short courses, conferences, meetups, certifications, etc.

● Be an escalation point for all matters related to testing and quality assurance and operate as a primary point of contact for the QA teams.

● Direct the development of the QA strategy, methodology, discipline and framework. Driving and improving the QA team in areas of automated testing and agile testing.

● Provide technical expertise in Test Automation, Testing Methodologies, Testing Processes, Tools and Techniques across the teams.

● Work with QA managers, Development managers and the Software Development Director to develop and execute QA strategies to meet and exceed department and corporate quality goals.

● Upward Management - Someone who can effectively manage upwards to bring out the best in the team members which makes the job easier and effective for both

● Responsible for managing the complete Delivery with support Skills Performance and Capacity/ bandwidth Management.