Director, QA
Is QA team excellence your expertise? If so, this is an outstanding opportunity to make a big difference across a growing organization.
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Build and provide leadership and strategic direction to the Quality Engineering organization
- Design, manage and maintain all Quality Assurance practices, standards, methodologies and metrics. Lead the design and implementation of testing frameworks, test infrastructure and tools
- Utilizes fact and data-driven metrics and communications results, promotes cross-functional communication and ensures adequate information flow within the organization
- Works with the Product Owners and Product Managers to develop project schedules and resource allocation for QA related projects and other activities such as system integration and certifications
- Drive continuous improvement through the strengthening of quality tools, skills, infrastructure and process improvements required to achieve business objectives
- Develop resource strategies, allocating staff, tools and specialized support as necessary to ensure that all testing commitments are met
- Establishes quality and reliability standards by studying product and consumer requirements with other members of management and with Product Manager, Architects, Engineers, and other roles
- Establishes and drives the quality policy
- Establishes in-process product inspection standards by studying manufacturing methods; devising testing methods and procedures.
- Establishes standards for the disposition of finished product by devising evaluation tests, methods, and procedures.
- HR Responsibility for Quality Engineers
- Establishes product quality documentation system by writing and updating quality assurance procedures.
- Maintains product quality by enforcing quality assurance policies and procedures and government requirements; collaborating with other members of management to develop new product and engineering designs, development and training methods.
- Prepares product and process quality reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing information and trends
Desired Skills/Experience:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent experience
- 10 years of experience in QA systems implementation and management
- 5 years as a CQE/CQM in a medium-size engineering environment
- Minimum of 10 years of management/ leadership experience in a software development organization required
- Must have at least 7 years of experience working through the design, development, release cycle, and delivering software products to market
- A record of successful delivery of software applications as an individual, team leader and/or development manager
- Strong understanding of the software development cycle
- Strong leadership, project management skills, time management, and problem solving skills
- Experience with managing the development of SaaS and cloud-based applications
- Relevant experience with web services and REST
- Understanding of relational databases (SQL Server, MySQL)
- Willingness to dive into software environments and technical issues
- Experience with Scrum methodology and Agile practices
About Convercent:
Robust. Agile. Collaborative. And you should see our software. Bringing the transformative power of the cloud to the compliance and ethics industry, Convercent's award-winning SaaS solution empowers our customers to be more effective and efficient in managing their compliance efforts and mitigating risk. With an inclination towards innovation, Convercent is helping our customers raise the standard--and expectations--for how companies safeguard their financial and reputational health.
Convercent is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.