Principal Responsibilities:   

• Manage automation and manual testing teams who are responsible for ensuring E2E (end to end) quality of our products.
• Provide direction for test teams delivering a clear and consistent vision.
• Develop roadmap for building needed test expertise. Establish and evolve formal QA Processes
• Define quality and automation KPI goals for the team and drive success towards achieving them.
• To recommend, implement, and monitor preventive and corrective actions to ensure that quality assurance standards are achieved.
• Participate in brainstorming sessions and cross-departmental meetings to ensure collaborating and cohesion.
• Oversee all aspects of quality assurance including establishing metrics, implementing best practices, and developing new tools and processes to ensure quality goals are met.
• Act as a key point of contact for all QA aspects of releases, providing QA services and coordinating QA resources internally and externally.
• Review test strategies and test plans and ensure coverage for functional, performance and scalability aspects are covered and tested.

Knowledge / Skills & Experience: 

• 10 + years’ experience in Product Quality Assurance role and 2-3 years in Management or lead position.
• Seasoned QA Manager with track record of delivering high quality products in a fast-paced Environment.
• Must have prior experience in building QA / Data Validation framework in bigdata for various BU’s.
• Experience in “closing the loop” and “continuous improvement” of QA strategies based on learnings from field issues.
• Hands-on QA experience including testing automation. Deep knowledge of automation best practices and industry trends.
• Exposure to automation testing using Selenium Web driver, Testing Frameworks like TestNG.
• Strong proficiency in SQL / No SQL.
• Strong analytical and reasoning skills.
• Excellent communicator, well organized, good team builder, cooperative and composed under pressure, experienced with matrix management.

Educational Requirements: 

• Any relevant undergraduate degree with computer science background