QA Manager

Responsibilities: 
·         Provide necessary definition, development and deployment of software quality assurance strategy and roadmap.
·         Develop and maintain current and comprehensive test plans for Navigators applications.
·         Act as Subject Matter Expert on the technical aspects, and tools related to testing end to end processes.
·         Lead and develop the execution of manual and automation test cases and scripts.
·         Lead and perform various types of testing including functional, regression, performance, user acceptance, etc.
·         Identify, document and track quality issues through to completion.
·         Responsible for maintaining up-to-date test plans.
·         Supervise quality assurance team who may be both internal and external resources and who may be geographically dispersed to ensure the delivery of the QA department goals and objectives
·         Works with project managers to develop project schedules and resource allocation models for QA related projects and other activities such as software deployment in production environments.
·         Responsible embedding for QA as part of the SDLC
·         Meet target deployment schedules.
·         Measure and evaluate product and QA team performance; recommend improvements.
·         Identify risks and manage contingencies.
·         Gather and communicate testing results.
·         Work with Internal Audit to test and evaluate the design and operating effectiveness of internal controls.
Requirements: 
·         Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience
·         7+ years of software testing experience
·         4+ years of team leadership
·         Thorough understanding of formalized QA process and concepts
·         Proven track record of delivering projects on time and within budget
·         Experience with Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
·         Strong analytical and problem solving abilities
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