SaaS Automation Engineer / QA Manager
1Kosmos
East Brunswick, new jersey
Job Details
Full-time
4/11/2024
Full Job Description
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.