QA Governance Program Manager

This role is responsible for leading the execution and enterprise adoption of Testing-related Audit Issues, ensuring alignment with governance, audit, and SDLC quality assurance standards. It requires a strong understanding of Quality Assurance principles, testing lifecycles, and audit compliance, with the ability to translate these concepts into practical, scalable solutions across business and technology teams.

• The role drives stakeholder engagement, communication, and training strategies to enable consistent adoption of testing and governance practices. It partners cross-functionally to deliver compliant, high-quality outcomes, leveraging data and metrics to monitor effectiveness, identify gaps, and support informed decision-making.

• This position plans and coordinates the delivery of project and small program initiatives involving multiple teams, ensuring clear objectives, aligned execution, and end-to-end visibility into delivery health. Responsibilities include managing risk, ensuring adherence to testing and governance standards, and driving accountability for outcomes related to functionality, quality, timelines, and compliance.

• This role is suited for individuals with a background in Quality Assurance, testing governance, or engineering disciplines who have successfully led large-scale implementation efforts. Candidates may come from traditional technology QA environments or adjacent technical fields (e.g., infrastructure, telecommunications, or plant design engineering), provided they demonstrate the ability to apply structured delivery, risk management, and quality control principles to technology testing and audit compliance.

Strong leadership, change management expertise, and the ability to influence and drive adoption across all levels of the organization are critical to success.

Primary Skill: Change Managers

Secondary Skill: Agile tools (Jira)

Required Qualifications

• University degree or equivalent relevant work experience

• 5+ years of experience working within established Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodologies (e.g., Agile, Waterfall, Iterative) or equivalent structured lifecycle frameworks in engineering, healthcare, or operations environments (e.g., Engineering Lifecycle Management, systems engineering/V-model, project lifecycle management, Lean/Six Sigma, PDSA) with a proven ability to drive adoption of new processes, standards, or audit requirements

• Demonstrated experience applying structured delivery processes, including requirements definition, planning, execution, testing/validation, and deployment with strong regulatory compliance context

• Foundational understanding of Quality Assurance (QA) principles, testing lifecycle, and governance, including validation, defect management, and quality controls

• Experience utilizing MS Project and MS Excel to review, analyze, and validate data for accuracy and reporting

• Proven ability to operate as a self-starter, with strong accountability, attention to detail, and ability to work independently with minimal oversight

• Experience in driving cross-collaboration across multiple departments and teams

• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to effectively engage stakeholders across business and technology

Desired Qualifications

• Strong proficiency in data analysis and reporting, including validating data accuracy, identifying trends, and generating insights (e.g., advanced Excel, reporting tools)

• Experience leading enterprise-wide communication and training strategies to support adoption of governance, QA, or testing standards

• 3-4 years of governance work tied to risk, compliance, and/or audit remediation efforts