Quality Assurance Manager

Must Have Skills for the Quality Assurance Manager:


#1. 7+ years background in IT (preferably in Quality Assurance, Agile Development, and DevOps)


#2. Software Development and Automated Test Script development experience.


#3. Experience maintaining Test Environments running on Windows and VMWare


#4. Prior experience with both Manual and Automated Test execution

Responsibilities of the Quality Assurance Manager:

• Design, set up, and configure automated testing framework
• Integration of automated testing tools into the CI/CD Tool Chain
• Work closely with the Development Lead to define QA and Testing Standards for internal and Third-Party applications
• Work with Lines of Business and Business Analyst to establish appropriate user acceptance test cases/suites, based on requirements
• Work with Development team on the development of Automated Testing Scripts and Policies
• Administration, maintenance, and configuration of Automated testing tools, scripts and Policies
• Implement regression testing and smoke testing into the Build and Deployment processes
• Implement and maintain Test Data Management processes, standards, and automation
• Monitor and updates Security Vulnerability Testing and associated policies
• Work with Development teams to implement and maintain Static Code Analysis and Unit Testing processes and technologies
• Design Performance Engineering processes and implement Performance Testing framework
• Work with Development team to implement QA processes and validation in as part of the Release Automation processes
• Ongoing maintenance of Defect Tracking processes and Technologies
• Coordinate Test environment maintenance with the DevOps/environment management lead
• Participate in Test environment issue resolution working closely with Development and DevOps
• Participate in Continuous Improvement practices
• Manage, train, and mentor Quality Analyst
• Defining and tracking Quality metrics for Application Development efforts

Information Security Responsibilities:

• Attend/complete assigned information security training by the designated completion date
• Read and adhere to published ISMS policies and procedures
• Report timely any observed violations of ISMS policy - or known encroachments on information security - to your department leader and/or the Information Technology Department

Requirements of the Quality Assurance Manager:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
• 7+ years background in IT (preferably in Quality Assurance, Agile Development, and DevOps)
• Highly motivated, enterprising, excellent team player, also able to work autonomously
• Knowledge of Quality Assurance procedures and processes
• Software Development and Automated Test Script development experience required
• Experience with Test Driven Development processes in support of Agile Development
• Experience maintaining Test Environments running on Windows and VMWare
• Experience with setting up and configuring automated testing tools
• Experience implementing and administering automated testing tools including Selenium and QC
• Experience working with Static Code Analysis and Vulnerability Scanning tools such as SonarQube and Veracode.
• Experience working with Performance Testing and Monitoring tools
• Experience Maintaining and Automating Test Data Management and Test Data Masking
• Experience with integrating test automation as part of Continuous Integration.
• Experience working closely with Software Development and DevOps to troubleshoot Environment issues
• Capable of enforcing processes and procedures
• Ability to document issues and remedies/solutions
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with both internal team members and external business stakeholders
• Strong desire to find ways to improve solutions, systems, and processes and capable of enforcing processes and procedures
• Internally motivated, able to work effectively both independently and in a team environment
• Experience with .NET development environments a plus
• Experience with CRM Development and testing a plus
• Experience with TFS and other ALM, Orchestration solutions
• Understanding of DevOps technologies and frameworks
• Knowledge of Software Configuration Management (build/deployment) concepts
• Experience with Infrastructure Operations and management of Pre-production environments
• Prior experience with both Manual and Automated Test execution