Wednesday, August 22, 2007

QA Manager 75K.


 Location: Midtown Manhattan

QUALITY ASSURANCE

Quality Assurance Manager 

Client is seeking a Quality Assurance Manager for its Web Production and Development department. Responsibilities include guiding and ensuring the execution and monitoring of all projects. The ideal candidate will bring an in-depth understanding of existing QA methodologies to implement and maintain a coherent, progressive QA strategy.

  • Manage the QA efforts in the design, implementation and execution phases.
  • Communicate QA progress and status on a project basis.
  • Manage and maintain project schedules in MS Project.
  • Monitor defects for tracking and reporting.
  • Develop and in-depth, detailed understanding of engineering and operations architecture to support developers in applying debugging tools to assist in early detection of defects/design issues.
  • Implement best practices to ensure standards to measure the quality of product deliverables.
  • Manage and mentor team of QA Analysts to ensure they have the support to rapidly grow their abilities.
  • Participate in root cause analysis for defects/design issues and provide process improvement suggestions to eliminate future occurrences of similar defects/issues.
  • Quickly and effectively assess customer impact for customer facing issues.

Essential Skills and Experience:

  • Minimum 3 years management experience, including management of a 5+ person team.
  • Minimum 8 years experience in Software Quality Assurance with a proven track record in developing and implementing a successful quality strategy for web-based technologies.
  • Strong technical leadership and project management skills, including testing effort estimation tracking and risk management.
  • Strong background in Software Engineering and Quality Assurance techniques, process, practices and methodologies.
  • Understanding of the Internet (HTML, XML, etc).
  • Results-oriented approach to problem solving.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
 

Email resume in Word to thebiggamehunter@cisny.com  ONLY IF YOU HAVE THE EXPERIENCE SOUGHT. Please include the job code with the position

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NO RELOCATION. NO VISA TRANSFERS. NO 3RD PARTIES. NO OVERSEAS RESUMES.

 

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