QA Manager at Expleo Group

Responsibilities

• Develops strategies and directs teams with diverse scope.
• Ensures that project deliverables are completed within agreed cost, timescale and resource budgets, are signed off.
• Pro-actively aims to achieve personal and team utilisation targets.
• Uses project planning tools and participates in the identification of and planning for future resource needs.
• Develops a fit-for-purpose reporting mechanism.
• Responsible for overall test plan design and processes, applying, articulating and constructing business specific end to end scenarios, defining standards for development of test scripts, deployment and reuse.
• Specifies the test environment for whole life-cycle testing and ensuring it reflects business requirements for execution.
• Consults with key business stakeholders to ensure application design is optimised for testability.
• Allocates and co-ordinates test schedules, work and resource plans; managing progress of all activities against the plan, managing own deliverables and that of others to meet delivery deadlines.
• Provides quality assurance evaluation estimates on various projects, including the ability to execute vision, goals and direction of a team/teams.
• Diagnoses problems and probes underlying issues to generate multiple potential solutions.
• Can pro-actively anticipate and prevent problems, facilitate buy-in and guides implementation of corrective and/or preventive actions for complex issues.
• Identifies potential consequences and risk levels.
• Creates quality assurance procedures and user instructions to ensure a reusable process and tools approach.
• Defines and implements quality process improvements and metrics focused on defect prevention.
• Advises on risk assessment and risk management strategies for projects or release level.
• Inputs into proof of concept exercises and assists sales with pre-sales collateral. Identifies opportunities to expand client assignments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or other related field, or equivalent work experience
• ISTQB Advanced
• Programming skills
• Additional course or certification in Quality Assurance
• Project Management qualification

Skills

• Excellent client-facing skills
• People management skills - introducing and building ways in which people can learn from each other, encouraging mentoring and the transfer of knowledge by designing and delivering learning interventions
• Team work and emotional intelligence
• Good self-management – continuous performance is both an objective and a mind-set
• Has an innovative approach – a bold thinker and doer, matching creativity with vigilance
• High value on openness and transparency
• Excellent communication and presentations skills
• Experience of introducing new concepts or strategies that significantly improve or revise the way business is done through to implementation.

Experience

• Minimum of 5 years experience in a QA Manager role
• Experience aligning, planning and managing all QA requirements across the systems and teams
• Experience working with SAP, Hybris, Moats, etc.