SENIOR DIRECTOR, SOFTWARE QUALITY ASSURANCE & TEST ENGINEERING REPORTING RELATIONSHIP AND TEAM The Senior Director QA will report directly to NextGen's SVP for Bangalore Development Centre and matrix report to NextGen's SVP for Software Quality Assurance & Test Engineering. THE POSITION: NextGen is seeking a Senior Director of Software Quality and Test Engineering who will be responsible for strategically defining, establishing, and overseeing the next generation of world-class Software QA and Test Engineering practices across both NextGen's legacy product enhancement efforts as well as all-new product development. This senior thought leadership role will be comfortable working and living "in a matrixed" R&D organization. OVERVIEW OF RESPONSIBILITIES The Senior Director of QA is first and foremost a strategic and thought leadership role within R&D. Additionally, the Senior Director will be influential in guiding both functional QA and cross-functional teams to define tools, develop QA processes, build test automation harnesses, track quality metrics, and work with cross-functional teams within and outside of R&D to keep a healthy pulse on clients needs, expectations and sentiment. Additionally, The Senior Director of QA will: - Champion emerging and situationally appropriate Quality Assurance practices; - Lead (through technical knowledge and influence) an ongoing Agile and SDET transformation and know-how to apply the appropriate methodologies with the various projects and programs in place; - Demonstrate an outstanding ability to understand test architecture and new technologies; - Define, guide, and oversee the implement innovative testing approaches to solve technical problems and have a commitment to great execution. - Nurture and develop a highly empowered QA and test engineering team. Push down decision making to the lowest organizational levels possible. - Actively collaborate with peers across the whole R&D organization; across India and across US as well as across the company to model highly effective matrix management. - Partner with the product support and client services department to better understand "customer sentiment" and design test strategies that directly align to providing ongoing client value via reliable, high quality software. Holistically the Senior Director of QA is responsible for all aspects of core QA and Test Engineering capabilities that function as an integrated service within the office of the CTO inclusive of engineering, technology operations, security, data and architecture. CANDIDATE PROFILE/QUALIFICATIONS The Senior Director of QA will be a thought leader who can align the Test Engineering and QA function with both the leading concepts emerging in the industry as well as the company's strategic direction. He/she will possess outstanding interpersonal and leadership skills, significant senior leadership maturity and the intellectual agility to prioritize and make decisions. Additional characteristics we seek in the selected candidate will include the following: - 15+ years' experience in progressively responsible positions in software quality assurance, Build and Release, software engineering/product development, Dev-Ops/Tech-Ops with at least 5 years within an enterprise software company with strong leadership experience as a hands-on technologist in a large, complex, fast paced and dynamic company. - Experience in building & transforming QA teams and designing or redesigning QA, Testing and Test Automation related processes in a very complex environment that is constantly evolving; applying best practices which produce enhanced operating results. - History of hands-on experience implementing test automation; knowledge of automated testing architectures, tools and processes. Familiarity with Selenium and Performance Center (or other performance testing) toolset is strongly desired as well as other automation and performance tools and frameworks. - Knowledge of emerging software development and project management processes and execution methodologies including Agile and experience in continuous integration. - Proficiency in a wide variety of enterprise software, cloud service, application technologies, programming languages and relevant frameworks. - Proficiency in web development including .NET, HTTP, REST, APIs, especially in enterprise software with scale. - Proficiency in large data sets, SQL databases, and in optimizing database access. - Experience with integrating application components across technology stacks and platforms. - Experience working with globally distributed teams. TECHNOLOGY STACK: The following technology components in production - most of which should be familiar to the Senior Director, QA in order to engage in constructive dialog with the engineering leadership. - Systems: Windows, .NET legacy, Multi-tenant three-tier SaaS. - Languages: .NET (VB/C#), ASP, Java, HTML5, Various others. - DBMS: MS SQL/Server, PostgreSQL, Oracle, NoSQL mongoDB. - Tools: Selenium, Performance Center, Proserve, Jira, Visual Studio, others. - Other: Amazon Web Services

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NextGen Healthcare - Senior Director - Quality Assurance 

NextGen Healthcare - Senior Director - Quality Assurance  ,Job Description for NextGen Healthcare - Senior Director - Quality Assurance  in NextGen Healthcare in  Bangalore for (15-20) years of experience. Apply Now!

Job Description for NextGen Healthcare - Senior Director - Quality Assurance  in NextGen Healthcare in  Bangalore for (15-20) years of experience. Apply Now!