QA Team Lead, AVP

Job description

Overview

Charles River Development enables investment firms worldwide to use a cloud-based platform that optimizes and automates the investment process across different asset classes.

Tasks

• Work with the Director of QA Programs to further develop the CRD testing process that will become the industry standard for functional testing
• Definition and implementation of the entire quality strategy in planning and execution in one department
• Expansion of test coverage through manual and automated functional tests and performance tests
• Ensure efficient and effective product testing by evaluating and expanding department metrics
• Participation in group testing activities to increase the value of the integration tests
• Training of new product specialists and supervision of junior employees in the proper creation and testing of test processes
• Development of best practices with a focus on customer orientation, repeatability and data-driven decisions
• Evaluate customer patch requests and determine how to reduce or limit them
• Monitoring the testing process for patches carried out by teams
• Evaluation of requirements and data sets necessary for the proper testing of changes and extensions
• Carrying out white glove tests
• Raising quality concerns and proposing a plan to address these concerns
• Act as an expert for developers working on performance tests
• Participate in key team decisions for test guidance as an adjoint member of each Scrum team
• Review of the quality process by checking quality KPIs for the department
• Act as a liaison to teams outside of technology to understand and solve requirements
• Management of CRD engineers and senior engineers
• Management of QA engineers/testers
• Supervision and coaching of a team
• Leadership by example

Requirements

Education

• B.S. degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics, physics or other technical field of study or business administration with a master's degree
• 10+ years of experience

Experience

• 12+ years of experience in software testing in a process-oriented technology environment
• 4+ years of experience in managing quality programs
• 5+ years experience in test management
• Proven experience in the automation of unit tests, test cases, scripts and automated testing tools to verify the quality of multi-tier applications
• Proven experience in identifying high quality, high business value initiatives, developing detailed plans for execution and delivering successful, measurable results
• Proven ability to lead by example
• At least 5 years of experience with agile development methods
• Expertise in quality to international standards (e.g. technical management solutions)
• Detail-oriented with excellent written and verbal communication skills

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