QA Head

Roles and 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.

• 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.

• 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.

Candidate Requirements:

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

• Be a strong leader with experience in implementing and shaping the companys 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.

• Ability to build, implement and direct quality assurance principles and maintain the quality of

delivery.