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Senior QA/Test Engineer
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Chris Proctor
- Zurich, CH
- posted on Jun04 2008
My client is a global player in healthcare solutions
My client is a growing company player in the health industry
The Job:
- Lead the Quality Assurance function of a rapidly growing organization
- Innovate and continuously improve quality systems
- Establish the right processes to meet quality goals
- Have the vision and know-how to take quality to the next level, including testing processes and architecture
- Estimate QA efforts, preparing, and owning QA and release schedules, making practical tradeoffs between time, resources, and testing levels
- Work closely with software development, product management, technical support, and other business teams to develop product schedules, execute test plans, and deliver high quality products to the market in a timely fashion
- Hands on ability to contribute directly to test design, writing, execution, and automation
- Create guidelines for determining the scope and types of testing required for various types of major, minor, and maintenance releases
- Lead the QA team for all software quality efforts including platform/feature testing, system testing, regression testing, compatibility testing, as well as automation of testing
- Drive automated and manual testing approaches
- Lead software QA project activities such as test case design, test automation development, test plan, documentation, integration testing, test plan reviews
- Participate in bug prioritization and assignment to releases
- Manage software release process
- Lead efforts to implement extensive QA automation
Required Experience:
Experience with the following is required:
- 4+ years of experience with software quality assurance, including experience as a manager
- Proven track record of successfully managing QA for software products and delivering with quality on time
- Required expertise with QA of Web based software products and Servers, Java stacks and SQL databases
- Hands on experience with Scripting, SQL, and Java
- Excellent communication skills
- Extensive experience with leading automation testing and test-driven approaches
- Extensive knowledge of leading QA tools and methodologies
- Experience with sophisticated Web based software product with high performance and reliability demands, as well as UI/usability testing for business users
- Ability to be effective in fast paced start up with a quickly changing environment
- Experience and passion for building great teams, motivating people, instilling accountability, and achieving results under tight constraints
- Ability to manage on-shore and off-shore teams
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