QA Manager

Responsibilities:

Provide leadership to individuals in the Quality Assurance team.  Responsible for setting policies, procedures and practices.  Maintain awareness of new system implementations, Quality Assurance and technological advancements. Ensure high staff productivity and morale through training, coaching, and management.  Monitor performance of team players; assist in the preparation of team player Career Development Plans, the salary decision process, and coaching for direct reports. Handle overall resource management for QA. Actively pursue process improvement opportunities.

Leads to establish quality improvement goals and monitors compliance to accepted processes and practices, instituting any new or changed procedures and measure their results.

Assists in the establishment and execution of testing services.

Maintains the awareness of industry and technological advancements and trends.

Assists in the definition of the QA's strategic direction.  Maybe be asked to communicates with senior management on long range issues, assists in ensuring management objectives are achieve.

Desirable Requirements:

Qualifications

Required:

Proven ability, vision and skills to lead a department towards specific goals in a rapid changing environment.  Proven leadership and mentoring capabilities.  Good judgment and the ability to work effectively with a diverse workforce.
Experience with system development lifecycle.  Extensive knowledge and work experience of test engineering methodologies. 
Working knowledge of testing concepts, verification and validation techniques, defect management, quantitative methods, risk management and measurement programs.  Working knowledge of defect tracking, quality principles and testing tools.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills.  Strong analytical, problem solving and planning ability.  Detailed oriented. Observational.  Ability to multi-task to accomplish workload efficiently. Excellent time management.
Good work ethic and general business acumen.
Ability to interact and influence clients, team members, various levels of management and external groups. Experience negotiating with business partners and external vendors.
Supervisory and administrative experience. Performance management.  Staffing. Experience on budgetary responsibilities.
Understanding of various technologies, relational database principles, client/server infrastructure, and n-tier architecture concepts.  Proficient on Microsoft Office suite.  Knowledge of Sybase, Oracle, Web and Middle tier testing.
Working experience with risk management, statistical analysis, quality assurance and quality control practices.
Bachelor's Degree or an equivalent combination of education and work experience.
Training on project management or equivalent knowledge.  Training on Supervisory and Team building skills.
5-7 years experience in Quality Assurance.
5-10 years experience of leadership experience. 

Highlights:

Must be able to manage effectively in a fast paced, deadline driven, dynamic environment
Prefer candidates with experience from large software companies that sell software as products
Automated testing experience
Prefer Spring MVC experience
International testing experience is a plus (testing around globalization of software)
Will manage teams of at least 8-10
Must be proficient with Excel
Must be available for additional work hours when required

Please refer to job code qaman101409 when responding to this ad.

Category:	Information Technology
	> Quality Assurance
Location:	King of Prussia, PA
County:	Montgomery County
ZIP Code:	19406
Pay Rate:	doe
Job Terms:	full time
Company:	PSCI
Phone:	302-334-4121
Fax:	302-479-7573