Quacquarelli Symonds Hiring for QA Manager at India Full Time

We are looking for a senior QA manager to manage and QA teams in Bangalore, India. This position will report to Director – Technology. The ideal candidate should have proven experience in being part of enterprise products, managing QA teams and multiple product lines with proven delivery record.

Location: This role will be based out of Bangalore

About QS

QS Quacquarelli Symonds Limited (QS), the world’s leading media and events company in the higher education sector.

QS has a global presence (offices are located in eight countries and events held in 60 countries) and has a loyal ‘blue-chip’ client base consisting of business schools, universities and corporate employers.

QS is a multi-cultural organization, with more than 25 languages spoken by our team members. We are known for our entrepreneurial spirit and actively encourage employees to initiate and develop ideas and share the rewards of our success. You should be comfortable with the challenges of a dynamic environment.

Responsibilities

We have a vital growth opportunity for a Software QA Manager who wants to join an engaged and dedicated engineering team to lead software quality-assurance for the Cloud based web platforms that attract close to 70 million visitors a year.

QS Online platform is a fully configurable multilingual web ecosystem platform that includes our popular websites like TopUniversities, TopMBA, and QSChina websites). The platform for next generation is based on fully configurable modular architecture. This role will lead QA team which is responsible for ensuring highest levels of software quality for the Online platform. Success in this role will involve…

Creating and managing a test process and team for the cloud based web platform and Online websites

Collaborating with developers, Ux engineers and Business analysts to design and execute integration and regression tests on software releases

Recruiting, hiring, and on-boarding direct reports

Understand the testing effort by analyzing project requirements.

Estimate and obtain management support for the time, resources and budget required to perform the testing.

Assign tasks to all Testing Team members and ensure that all of them have sufficient work in the project.

Develop the test plan for the tasks, dependencies and participants required to mitigate the risks to system quality and obtain stakeholder support for this plan.

Check / Review the Test Cases documents.

Define a Strategy for a long-term sustainable testing process and technologies, allowing for scalability of testing effort and new technologies being implemented by the business.

Identify Training requirements for team members and organize the training that’s appropriate for their career development plans and/or the project.

Arrange the Hardware and software requirement for the Test Setup.

Ensure content and structure of all Testing documents / artifacts is documented and maintained.

Document, implement, monitor, and enforce all processes for testing as per standards defined by the organization.

Track and prepare the report of testing activities like test testing results, test case coverage, required resources, defects discovered and their status, performance baselines etc.

Review various reports prepared by testers.

Ensure the timely delivery of different testing milestones.

Prepares / updates the metrics dashboard at the end of a phase or at the completion of project.

Qualifications

Ideal candidate should have

Expertise in software quality assurance, test, and integration

A passion for finding bugs and edge cases in complex systems

Interest in building a collaborative team

A degree in engineering or computer science

Practice delivering projects with elements of backend and front end engineering

Understand the performance needs and be able to test the performance of the online systems

Expertise in black box and white box testing

Expertise in preparing datasets, test scenarios preparation and regression analysis

Should have exposure to the state of the art QA methodologies and tools

Process driven

Core Leadership competencies

A LEADER WHO INSPIRES – A leader whose language, imagery and use of story makes tomorrow come alive today. A leader whose passion to learn causes others to revisit their own learning habits. A leader who is personally inspired by the emerging challenge.

TEAM BUILDER/TEAM PLAYER – Has a background of building high performance teams. Establishes trust quickly. Deals with team issues quickly. Is quick to confront game playing and other behaviour that holds the team back

CONSTITUENCY BUILDER – Sensitive to the needs of others. Has an intuitive sense of who is important and how things get done by working with cross functional teams.

HUNGRY FOR RESULTS – Relentless. Driven. Delivers. Understands the organization’s value drivers. Brings focus where it is needed. Balances the short and long-term.