Head - Testing - Software Quality Assurance

Our client a leading IT MNC is looking out for Senior QA professional.

Accountabilities :

- Leads the Software Quality Assurance team and is accountable for the quality of deliverables, customer relationships, test execution, and strategy, working independent of supervision

- Oversees the Software Quality Assurance process

- Leads by metrics and provides executive Software Quality Assurance dashboards for projects andreleases

- Uses reusable framework to identify and manage test plans and related artifacts

- Provides strategic direction across all programs and demonstrates leadership on QA management of resources, cost, risk, and scope

- Ensures that the Software Quality Assurance team creates traceable test plans and scripts

- Uses tools and best practices to systematically measure and improve Software Quality Assurance, enforcing process improvements

- Leads and refines the QA program focused on automation

- Approves requirements to ensure alignment with scope, schedule, and financial risk to quality

- Ensures team adherence to established controls, standards, and methodologies

- Approves requirements to identify scope, schedule, and financial risk to quality, and approves mitigation plans to address issues

- Leads the successful implementation of deliverables, ensuring quality and on-time delivery

- Manages risk and ensures proper mitigation plans are implemented and communicated appropriately to the customer and team

Desired Profile:

Bachelor's Degree or Master's Degree with 22+years of Software Quality Assurance experience, including 15+ years of technical leadership experience at large complex organizations, including leading centralized or matrixed teams

- Experience with Software Quality Assurance software (such as Rational Quality Manager, HP Quality Center)

- Experience in test automation (preferably Selenium)

- Hands-on experience in designing the framework (architect) and implementing processes around automation to meet objectives

- Experience with formulation, design and rollout of QA and Software Quality Assurance methodologies for both waterfall and agile (such as Scrum, Kanban) software development life cycle work

- Should have experience in working with IT product companies / experience in healthcare domain.