Quality Assurance Manager - Embedded System (10-22 yrs)

Experience and Education :

- Bachelors or Masters in Electronics or Electronics & Instrumentation

- Master's in Business Administration, Business Management or related field good to have

- Minimum 10 to 15 years in Embedded firmware engineering focused on automation and manual testing and validation of embedded software with at least 5 years' experience in managing and leading agile testing teams

- Agile Certified professionals desired.

- Preferred type of profiles : Automation companies (whirlpool, Rockwell, Bosch, any consumer electronics companies) with embedded domain background.

Technical skills:

- Minimum 5 years of hands on experience in with Embedded Software Testing / programming using Test management like VSTS, HPQC, JIRA, Bitbucket, Confluence, etc. or automation tools.

- Experience in working with medium to large IoT Embedded systems in consumer Electronics.

- Minimum 4+ years of python programming experience with testing background.

- Experience in testing different communication protocols such as MODBUS, MQTT/COAP, TCP/ IP, Wireless, BLE, RS 232/485, I2C etc.

- Experience on programming concepts and hands on experience working with C or C++ or python.

- Experience in any home automation/smart energy/IOT/infotainment/Multimedia etc. Domain

- Experience in CI/Cd tool i.e., Azure DevOps, Jenkin etc.

- Well versed with OOPs and operating system concepts

- Proficient in testing Embedded products Experience in validating embedded applications running on LINUX, RTOS and Non RTOS based applications

- Experience of testing firmware for 16/32 bit single and multi-core processors

- Understanding of electronics hardware e g ADC, PWM, IO interfaces.

- Knowledge on validation of cloud applications

- Knowledge of testing with network protocols like FTP, HTTP, TCP, IP, Ethernet.

- Experience of scripting language, preferably JScript, Python mandatory. And good understanding in robot framework

- Experience in gateway automation scripting and testing.

- Hands on experience in test case design and various functional and non-functional testing types

- Well versed in using hardware and software tools for test development

- Proficient with test configuration management, test artefact version control processes and testing tools. Knowledge of Subversion is desired

- Proficient at evaluating new tools and technologies

- Thorough understanding of software development lifecycle and familiarity with CMMi model

- Experience with creating Requirements Traceability Matrix, Process Documents, Test Plans

Leadership skills:

- QA Management experience across multiple projects with proven technical guidance to QA teams.

- 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 both functional and non-functional.

- 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.

Role 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 leads.

- Participate in interviews, induction, training and performance evaluation of all QA leads/team members.

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

- Build QA competency and write individual development plans for your team members.

- Measure productivity and ensure time logs are reported and complied in accordance with company policies and procedures.

- 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 leads, Hardware, Firmware, Mobile App managers and HOD to develop and execute QA strategies to meet and exceed department and corporate quality goals.