QA Director or Director QA or Senior QA Manager or sr QA Manager

MUST BE LEGALLY AUTHORIZED TO WORK IN US, CANNOT SPONSOR H1.

This is a Full Time position.

One of the great companies to work for in the bay area is looking for QA Director
This position offers an exciting opportunity for qualified career-motivated professionals. This position provides competitive compensation, performance bonus and the chance to work with talented people in a winning, successful, and pleasant environment. Compensation package includes many premium benefits including matching 401(k), dental, medical, life insurance, Paid Time Off (PTO) and much more. This position is with a leading company in travel industry.

Must Have:

* 10+ years of experience in software quality assurance
* 3+ years of experience as a Sr. Manager or Director role in QA
* Experience working for an ecommerce company
* Experience with proven success leading QA organizations that include functional testing, test automation, and load/performance testing responsibilities.
* Strong leadership with the ability to motivate and challenge staff.
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
* Understanding of quality assurance and software development processes and methodologies.
* Understanding of multi-tier web application architecture and deployment.
* Experience testing database driven applications including data validation using SQL.
* Proactive, great attention to detail, results-oriented problem solver, and ability to meet aggressive deadlines
* Strong analytical skills in assessing user, functional, and technical requirements and documentation and identifying high risk and key test areas.
* Experience leading cross-functional efforts by communicating and negotiating with multiple teams to accomplish goals
* BS degree or equivalent.

Responsibilities:

* Lead a team of on-site and off-shore functional test engineers responsible for testing all projects and enhancements to the Company and Travel Ticker applications.
* Lead a performance testing team responsible for certifying performance and stability of all functional releases of the applications.
* Lead a team of on-site and off-shore test automation engineers in the creation of a robust, maintainable, and high performance regression test suite for the applications.
* Lead a team of release engineers responsible for executing, maintaining, and enhancing company'scode deployment processes.
* Co-ordinate the company functional release cycle.
* Define, promote, and ensure adherence to quality assurance processes such as test plan reviews, defect management, risk/complexity analysis, and regression test maintenance.
* Proactively recommend and institute process, tool, and methodology improvements.
* Track existing metrics and establish new ones to measure the quality of company's functional releases and the quality and efficiency of the QA team.
* Actively mentor direct reports to develop their skills and careers
* Regularly keep management abreast of risks and quality issues and how they will impact the business.

Job Description:

The company is looking for a technically savvy, result oriented and proactive individual with strong leadership skills and demonstrated success leading QA organizations. This individual will provide management, technical, and process leadership to the Quality Assurance and Release Engineering teams.

This includes responsibility for all functional testing, load testing, test automation, and code deployments for a high volume transactional web application. Their team will support multiple development projects and functional releases concurrently. They will work cross-functionally with Software Engineering, Project Management, IT, Operations, and Business units to coordinate QA and Release Engineering activities. They will also act as QA's representative on cross functional initiatives that evolve existing company processes, or establish new ones.

At Zenex Partners candidate information is strictly confidential. We do not present resume without prior permission of the candidate.


Zenex Partners, Inc

Phone: (408) 748-0075 x 16

ranjit@zenexpartners.com

Web: http://www.zenexpartners.com