quality assurance head - Hyderabad, India - Gamut HR Solutions

Description

maintaining the highest quality standards in a production company. They help develop, protect, and audit all processes that may impact certain qualities. This monitoring ensures that customers will receive nothing but top-notch service.

• Responsible for Defining QA strategy, approach and execution in development projects.
• Responsible for Leading and directing the QA leadership team.
• Provide leadership and technical expertise within Test Automation and Quality Assurance.
• Be accountable for the test automation projects, mentor, and provide leadership to the QA automation developers and managers.
• Participate in interviews, induction, training and performance evaluation of all QA leads.
• Provide technical leadership and expertise within the field of Quality Assurance and Testing.
• Ensuring that the development teams adhere to the principles, guidelines and best practices of the QA strategy as defined.
• Focus on continuous QA improvements including usage of appropriate testing tools, test techniques, test automation.
• Building and maintenance of quality standards as well as enforcing technical and testing standards.
• Monitoring of all the QA activities, test results, leaked defects, root cause analysis and identifying areas of improvement. Implement steps required to improve the processes.
• Gather and present testing metrics and testing activities for the projects to key stakeholders.
• Ensure the proper usage of available tools to gain the maximum benefit of the QA effort. This includes testing tools for functional, performance, automation, etc.
• Manage training and continuous learning of QA staff by means of short courses, conferences, meetups, certifications, etc.
• Be an escalation point for all matters related to testing and quality assurance and operate as a primary point of contact for the QA teams.
• Direct the development of the QA strategy, methodology, discipline and framework. Driving and improving the QA team in areas of automated testing and agile testing.
• Provide technical expertise in Test Automation, Testing Methodologies, Testing Processes, Tools and Techniques across the teams.
• Work with QA managers, Development managers and the Software Development Director to develop and execute QA strategies to meet and exceed department and corporate quality goals.