Monday, September 10, 2007

QA Director - (US-NY-New York)


From Jeff Altman: The Big Game Hunter

QA Director - (US-NY-New York)

Compensation:
$110K - $120K / Year
Min Education:
Bachelors
Job Type:
Full Time
Jobcode:
CWTWJA3

Tired of working on Wall Street- ready for change? Our client is a leader in the online advertising space offers an exciting chance for professional and personal growth and be a part of the emerging online advertising explosion. The QA Director is an experienced, hands-on professional, responsible for on shore and off shore QA engineers in testing the performance, reliability, scalability, and functionality of our world-class Internet advertising system. The QA Director will define test strategy, execute test plans, review test and product specifications, and define/select the appropriate test tools and automation strategies to deliver a high quality product. Essential Duties and Responsibilities: Lead on shore and off shore QA teams.

Manage the development of testing strategies and test cases.
Sign off on product requirements.
Project and vendor management.

Skills and Qualifications:
The following are the minimum requirements for consideration.
A strong and verifiable 7+ year track record of industry experience, to include extensive experience in each of the following: leveraging automation, developing new automated test suites, evaluating test coverage, performance benchmarking, providing high-quality feedback on the state of the product, work with large scale server systems architecture and design, a track record testing Internet based services that are well regarded for their quality, scale and stability - ideally .NET and ASP.NET services running on Windows.
In addition, you will have extensive experience in managing a backend QA team with 5-7 team members in various stages of the business and the software life cycle, with strong results in all phases.
A passion for QA, including an ability to successfully evangelize QA principles to senior management outside of the QA management hierarchy.
Ability to identify and raise project issues and risks, and to propose helpful resolution strategies to more senior managers so they can make informed and accurate decisions from available choices.
Extensive experience with QuickTestPro, Load Runner, bug tracking tools such as QualityCenter, RequestTracker, Remedy, Elementool, and other industry standard QA testing tools.
A working knowledge of MS-SQL databases.
Considerable experience developing, executing, and automating test plans for back end and front end servers.
Experience running a hosted online service or with enterprise computing.
To enhance your candidacy, you should also have:
BS in Computer Science with 5+ years or MS in Computer Science with 3+ years of industry experience.
Strong hands on experience in designing and developing test harness tools and automated (front and back end) testing in the web world.
Extensive experience working with object oriented code bases such as C#, Java, or C++.
Experience with open source technologies.
Managed multiple projects concurrently.
Successful history of defining and leveraging automation.
Experience diagnosing and resolving production issues.
Design and maintain automated testing tools.

Email resume in Word to thebiggamehunter@cisny.com. Please include the job code for the position with your resume.

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