Senior Manager, QA Job Description
Senior manager, QA
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Senior Manager, QA Duties & Responsibilities
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Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Benchmark application group’s QA services related to system/integration and user and business acceptance testing to best in industry organizations
Ensure the effective coordination of test planning and support, with required partners in the Business, CIO group, Infrastructure
Proven experience managing a large team of Quality Assurance specialists responsible for supporting all test activities planning, execution, test environment support and possibly release management for all applications within an application area (>100 resources under direction)
Manages the execution of the QA Strategy including business acceptance, user acceptance, and system integration
Provide leadership in the creation and adherence to Quality Assurance processes and methodologies
Leads/directs the software automation effort by identifying applications that will benefit from automation and develop/implement test cases
Estimates and manages the human & non-human resources
Providing input on quality assurance, general strategic issues
Explain the testing process / procedures to all new vendors up front
Manages a team of Quality Assurance specialists responsible for supporting all test activities planning, execution, test environment support and possibly release management for all applications within an application area
Senior Manager, QA Qualifications
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Licensing or Certifications for Senior Manager, QA
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: ISO, ISTQB, ASQ, PMP, CQA, CQE, 9001, CE, PMI, EPIC
Education for Senior Manager, QA
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Employers hiring for the senior manager, QA job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Science, Technical, Chemistry, Pharmacy, Business, Biology, Education, Management
Skills for Senior Manager, QA
Desired skills for senior manager, QA include:
Approaches
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Investigations
Assumptions
Frameworks and perspectives when solving problems
Group
Potential conflicts at the individual
Recognizing and effectively dealing with existing
Situation level
Techniques for gaining the cooperation and support of others
Desired experience for senior manager, QA includes:
Strong knowledge of fabric and Home Product
Requires Quality Experience
Requires Testing Experience
Strong sense of being a Team Player
A minimum of 5 years of project management experience (as a Sr
Excellent written, verbal, presentation and facilitation skills necessary to effectively convey goals and initiatives to team members and top management
Senior Manager, QA Examples
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Senior Manager, QA Job Description
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Our company is looking for a senior manager, QA. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for senior manager, QA
- Assist to Key Process Indicators (KPI) Review and propose actions in case of quality issues /findings or as part of continuous improvement
- Supervise implementation of procedure according to the corporate or GXP requirements
- Supervise implementation of Non-conformance /CAPA activities on the site including organization of local CAPA review board
- Lead assigned audit teams to conduct internal and external quality assessments including report writing
- Review and approve project documentation including protocol and reports for quality and scientific content (business language is English)
- Manage, identify, hire, develop and recognize technical staff, as required
- QA owner for two large and distinct areas of the FIFA franchise
- Setting the QA strategy and leading a high performing team to deliver on the strategy
- Manage QA Project Owners
- Align and partner with key development partners to deliver high quality products, on time and on budget
Qualifications for senior manager, QA
- Formulate strong relationships with WWQA teams and Dev partners
- Collaborate with partners in development and finance to define schedules and establish QA budgets
- Identify and implement improvements in project management practices
- Defining and implementing metrics, reporting mechanisms, and project/test management methodologies
- Continually improve the operational efficiency and effectiveness of the QA effort by assessing current quality assurance practices and incorporating new strategies
- Support the growth of the QA Design discipline, leading to higher value individual contributors
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Senior Manager, QA Job Description
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Our innovative and growing company is looking to fill the role of senior manager, QA. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for senior manager, QA
- Recruit, manage, train and evaluate the performance of the QA personnel
- Establish efficient and effective methods of reporting and communicating
- Be an active participant in One QA initiatives, helping to evolve the QA discipline in EA
- Regularly engages and collaborates with peers across EA on improving quality practices, or achieving shared goals
- Build and manage SDETs and QAEs that are responsible for developing and maintaining software for testing our systems
- Build a comprehensive suite of reusable and automated test cases to provide full test coverage for our business
- Visit each site quarterly
- Approve internal/external audit responses
- CAPA execution, general compliance
- Primary auditor for International sites
Qualifications for senior manager, QA
- Program manage partner QA teams such as Core QA, Quality Engineering and Compliance
- Defining and implementing critical knowledge transfer and communication processes with internal and external teams
- Establish efficient and effective methods of reporting and communicating between distributed QA teams
- 5 years of managerial experience with at least 2 years managing managers
- 5 years experience within the QA/testing industry
- Experience managing a large scale multi-discipline program – Minimum 3 Years, Ideal – 5 years
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Senior Manager, QA Job Description
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Our innovative and growing company is looking to fill the role of senior manager, QA. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for senior manager, QA
- Support and ensure team preparedness of reviews, at all levels, throughout the project, including Product Safety Committee, Gate Exit Reviews, technical Design Reviews, and post launch analyses
- Ensure robust and timely action on Design Mitigation Review action plans and commitments
- Participates in and/or supports various continuous improvement initiatives that drive internal business or regulatory needs
- Assist teams with developing robust Design History Files, including all levels of Design Inputs, Risk Assessments, FMEAs, trace relationships, and V&V documentation
- Enable rapid and effective correction of quality/regulatory problems in a manner that prevents reoccurrence
- Own or participate in the completion of CAPAs, as necessary
- Develop team members to advance their skills and leadership
- Drive best practices from across Global Design Assurance, any other source, into the CWS QA/RA and R&D teams
- Responsible for building strong, highly motivated, vibrant, innovative and highly professional teams
- Responsible for building a strong competence in project management, process management and QA practices
Qualifications for senior manager, QA
- Work with various systems involved in trading, analysis, connectivity, trade flow, monitoring and other tooling
- Work within a global team of motivated and talented people to deliver quality technology solutions in a demanding business environment
- Manage a small team of offshore testers
- Have more than 10 years of experience in testing trading systems
- Have more than 5 years of experience in testing market making systems
- Have experience working with users, developers, operations and management
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Senior Manager, QA Job Description
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Our company is looking to fill the role of senior manager, QA. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for senior manager, QA
- Responsible for the delivery from the project management, process adoption and quality aspects of all the releases of products and customer projects
- Responsible for all the projects managed and stakeholder satisfaction
- Responsible for the quality of the deliverables stamped by the QA teams in the organization
- Responsible for the process adoption and adherence in SEE organization
- Responsible for budget planning, roadmap definitions and proper execution and running of the SEE QA organization
- Responsible for building a strong knowledge base in product, domain and functional areas
- High level of maturity in delivery management in terms of project planning, execution, quality and stake holder expectation management
- Active participation and contributions in organization building activities across divisions
- Showcasing innovations through patents, white papers, participations in hackathons
- Influence, collaborate and communicate effectively with various leaders
Qualifications for senior manager, QA
- Strengths in test framework architecture for complex infrastructures, SQA methodologies, feature coverage analysis and professional commitment to the field of Quality Improvement
- Expertise with Amazon Web Services (EC2, VPC, ELB, S3, CloudFormation, etc)
- Expertise in creating systems test based on customer workflows/use cases to solve complex testing problems (including testing for edge cases)
- Big Data experience – Hadoop, MapReduce, Spark, Impala, Hbase, Cassandra, Solr/Lucene/elastic-search, and/or comparable technologies
- Proficiency on programming languages - C / C++, JAVA OR PYTHON
- Ability to multi-task efficiently across multiple different technical areas
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Our company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of senior manager, QA. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for senior manager, QA
- Work in fast paced development environment, interacting with product owners, business analysts, testers, developers and stakeholders across geographical locations
- Demonstrates a product engineering mind set, ability to strategize and implement the vision & mission
- Develop and lead Quality strategy for F10P10
- Act as lead Quality SME for F10P10 issues and escalations
- Analyse complaint trends and manage complaints to prevent recurrence of complaints, major incidents and recalls from the market
- Manage technical signals seen on certain batches in accordance with procedures in place, together with the Pharmacovigilance dept
- Continually improve the Technical complaints management process
- Supports and consults the departments in their efforts to meet the required product quality
- Performs project reviews (DHF, DMR, DHR)
- Initiates CAPAs and assures that the CAPA process is followed
Qualifications for senior manager, QA
- Ensure high availability of trading systems by completely understanding the system requirements and testing appropriately
- Have previous experience in test automation
- Have previous experience in managing a small team of testing staff
- Strong working knowledge of regulations (21 CFR Part 210, 211, 820, Part 11, ICH regulations, ISO 13485 ) is required
- Be a quality leader of the teams you work with
- Understand the business and customer impact of systems