Job Title: Sr. Quality Assurance Manager
Location: Goa, India
Reporting to: Vice President – Projects & Customer Services
Objective
ODL is looking for a hands-on Director to join the management team to provide vision and to drive improvements in our software products and deliveries.
Key Activities
- Provide vision and leadership in establishing and growing ODL’s Quality Assurance team
- Own, define and enforce the software testing processes using a mixture of manual and automated testing, for functional and non-functional testing
- Implement best practice for QA across the company
- Work with ODL front office in the UK and ODL international customers to manage and address
QA issues
Knowledge and Experience
- Excellent understanding of the complete software development lifecycle, with experience of delivering regular product releases and demonstrating a strong focus on quality and managing offshore teams to deliver high quality products
- Excellent leadership skills – ability to build and motivate the QA team, communicating vision and best practice for QA across the company
- Ability to build strong relationships with ODL management team in Goa and London
- Strong presentation skills and ability to communicate effectively with ODL senior management and customers to address key Quality issues
- Strong experience in leading automated testing in a Continuous Integration environment, building and delivering successful software products designed to run on the Windows operating system
- Real world experience of automated test tools for browser-based products, preferably Selenium, SOAP UI, LOAD UI
- Real world experience of Continuous Integration tools and a strong understanding of configuration management
- Experience in Performance Testing
- Flexibility and energy, who will thrive in a fast paced, entrepreneurial environment and who has proven ability to drive software product delivery to time, cost and quality
- Minimum of five years’ experience in a QA Management role
- Demonstrated ability to achieve results through working on own initiative with proven ability to effectively handle multiple priorities
- Experience of producing and delivering presentations at a senior level
- Experience in a customer facing role
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both written & verbal English language skills.
- Proficient in the use of MS Office Suite
- Willing to travel and work in different locations based on customer requirements