Global CTE QA Lead (HAT ID: 10211)
Core Business Services
Requisition # BUE002D9
Post Date 3 days ago
**The opportunity**
• Manage and mentor for test teams
across multiple projects you will use your deep understanding of development
and test best practices combined with first class leadership skills to promote
approaches which ensure quality across our teams, products and services.
• Leads and manages resources on
major development initiatives or large, complex testing projects, ensuring test
projects are delivered to schedule, budget and scope and are aligned to
functional / non-functional requirements.
• Measures and assesses the
portfolio's success against test plans and leads the development of processes
and approaches to ensure quality standards of products and services, ensuring
testing procedures follow any required industry specific standards.
• Develops long-term, strategic
partnerships with senior business stakeholders and vendors, influencing,
persuading and negotiating with them to achieve business and customer
objectives.
• Accountable for driving innovation
and continuous improvement in testing, keeping abreast of industry best
practice.
• Drives the continuous improvement
of the testing effort / function, as well providing insights on quality issues
on the wider delivery.
**Your key responsibilities**
• Leads the development and delivery
of multiple complex test plans to ensure product quality, acting as a
specialist on complex technical and business matters.
• Leads the design, development and
support of test cases for functional and non-functional domains, assigning
testing skills to initiatives to ensure all issues are resolved and changing
customer requirements are met.
• Identifies problems in testing and
develops and implements improvements to processes, reviewing and interpreting
recommendations from others, responding to trends analysis by directing
solutions.
• Uses testing insights to recommend
improvements to the wider delivery.
• Monitors SLA and delivery
compliance and provides support into ongoing contract management and review.
• Leads the evaluation,
recommendation, and implementation of testing procedures and strategies for
products, systems, components or modifications, ensuring alignment to
functional / non-functional requirements.
• Identifies product quality risks
based on high level solution architecture.
• Builds long-term relationships with
internal and external business and client leaders and provides direction to the
team during the delivery of all product testing lifecycle.
**Skills and attributes for success**
· Highly advanced understanding of the
IT life cycle (pipeline, resource, demand, project delivery, financial).
· Highly advanced knowledge of Quality
Management techniques and methodologies.
· Highly advanced understanding of
testing life cycle and agile frameworks.
· Vast experience in establishing and
evolving formal QA processes, ensuring that the team is using industry-accepted
best practices.
· Highly advanced knowledge on
overseeing all aspects of quality assurance including establishing metrics,
applying industry best practices, and developing new tools and processes to
ensure quality goals are met.
· Vast experience in developing roadmaps
for building needed QA expertise in the team guarantee excellent on test
deliverables.
**To qualify for the role, you must have**
· A degree in Computer Science or a
related discipline; or equivalent work experience.
· Minimum 10 – 15 years of experience in
Quality Assurance area.
· Proven experience on leading
high-performance QA teams in agile environments including QA automation
framework delivery.
· Strong leadership and organizational
skills with an ability to inspire others.
· Familiarity managing multiple on site
and external test teams.
· Proven experience hiring, training and
mentoring other senior team members to build a strong team around them.
· Extensive experience in customer
facing roles.
· Considerable experience working
virtually in a globally dispersed team.
**What we look for**
· Clear understanding of customer needs
when deciding on Quality Assurance strategy and framework.
· Understand the firm goals and
objectives in order to anticipate opportunities and set up a plan to comply
with them.
· Evaluate new ideas, technologies and
products to expand the organization capabilities and improve processes.
