What are the responsibilities and job description for the Director of Quality Assurance position at Prominent?
Prominent is seeking a Director of Quality Engineering with a proven track-record of delivering best-in-class functionality and quality team. This is a contract to hire role and MUST be based in Omaha, NE. This Senior Leader will manage direct reports and drive both waterfall and agile quality for state/local and federal government systems by ensuring all product changes meet strict quality expectations.
Working in close partnership with application development and business, you will establish strategic and operational testing technology best practices and processes to effectively and efficiently manage incoming demand of work. You will also ensure successful implementation of software releases while ensuring balance of capacity planning and forecasting of team tasks.
Sponsorship now or in the future is not available on this opportunity.
No third party options.
Responsibilities:
• Manage and coach 4 direct reports and 36 indirect reports.
• Drive Quality Practices and Standards across the Organization
• Champion the culture of quality delivery through requirements based testing
• Lead, Manage and Mentor large QA Team
• Drive growth and standards of Automated Testing Practices
• Track and report on all quality metrics at team, process and production operating levels
• Make data-driven recommendations to enhance operational excellence, leading the implementation of new processes and activities
• Process-oriented mindset and high degree of familiarity with modern test technologies and tools
• Provides status updates and progress reports to the project team, senior leadership and the clients
• Strong organizational skills
• Strong knowledge of test-related aspects of agile software methodologies
Experience:
• 10 years of related technical leadership experience
• 5 years of management in leading large teams using various SDLC methodologies, i.e., Agile/Waterfall
• Strong organizational skills
• Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills (oral, written and interpersonal) including the ability to communicate technical concepts to a non-technical audience
• Ability to contribute and direct at all levels of testing including unit, functional, automation, performance and scalability testing; be able to step in and provide leadership in test design and implementation
• Familiarity with testing tools and processes such as:
• Jira – Defect Mgmnt, sprint management, requirements mapping, test case matrix
• AMP, Postman, Testrail or similar tools
• WebLoad, LoadNinja, IBM Rational
• Familiarity with 508 / ADA Compliance is a strong plus
• Experience in financial services payments industry a plus
• Experience in development of CI/CD or DevOps Testing Models a plus
Salary : $140,000 - $170,000
