QA Manager - Bangalore Rural, India - Amadeus Labs

Description

Job Description

Job Description

Overview:

We are seeking an experienced QA Manager with a robust background in Data Pipeline testing, proficient in Python, Robot Framework, and a strong inclination towards maintaining a high-quality standard. The ideal candidate will lead our QA team, ensuring the efficiency, reliability, and accuracy of our data pipelines while implementing and maintaining comprehensive testing strategies.

Leadership:

• Lead, mentor, and manage a team of QA engineers, providing guidance and fostering a culture of quality excellence.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams including Development, Data Engineering, and Product Management to align QA goals with business objectives.

Quality Strategy and Implementation:

• Develop and execute robust testing strategies for data pipelines, ensuring data accuracy, integrity, and reliability.
• Design, implement, and maintain automated test frameworks utilizing Python and Robot Framework to streamline testing processes.

Data Pipeline Testing:

• Conduct end-to-end testing of data pipelines, validating data transformations, data completeness, and ensuring proper data flow.
• Identify and troubleshoot issues within data pipelines, collaborating with relevant teams for resolution.

Process Improvement:

• Continuously evaluate and enhance QA processes and methodologies to optimize efficiency and effectiveness.
• Implement best practices for quality assurance, ensuring adherence to industry standards and compliance requirements.

Reporting and Documentation:

• Generate comprehensive reports on testing results, defects, and quality metrics for stakeholders.
• Maintain clear and detailed documentation of test plans, test cases, and testing procedures

Common accountabilities:

• Manages a team of Staff employees and has accountability for their performance and results. Sets performance objectives, conducts performance reviews and recommends pay actions.
• Defines a vision for the team in line with the department strategy and operational challenges and translates it into a concrete action plan. Works with a high level of autonomy, with some guidance from Senior Manager.
• Acts as a reference across multiple areas, anticipating solutions to complex problems.
• Optimizes efficiency based on knowledge and experience with the policies, procedures and business plan.

Specific accountabilities:

Accountability / Business acumen

• Define and share the technical/functional team roadmap and vision according to the department/division/company objectives
• Report on team activities
• Be accountable for the performance and results of a unit within own discipline or function
• Develop plans and priorities to address resource and operational challenges
• Suggest alternatives / improvements / new techniques in processes, flows, operational models and plans
• Moderate budgetary impact on business
• Decisions are guided by policies, procedures and business plan; receive guidance from senior manager

Technical excellence

• Timely manage the investigation and resolution of production support issues and customer inquiries
• Collaborate with other software development, architecture, solutions, and QA teams to ensure that software systems are designed for testability, stability, scalability, and performance
• Participate to the understanding, measurement and reduction of the environmental impact of the tested applications and associated QA activities
• Provide the team with the means required to implement the test strategy defined by the QA manager(s) and apply the recommendations of the Principal QA engineer(s)
• When required by the organization and the context, act as a QA manager and/or a Principal QA engineer, for part or all of the accountabilities of these 2 roles

Communication

• Ensure timely and appropriate communication to team members regarding company/organization information