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SOFTWARE TEST MANAGER

The QA Test Manager position reports directly to Director of Quality Assurance and is located in our Production Research and Development facility in Dublin.

The QA Test Manager will be an experienced professional with the technical and interpersonal skills to manage high performing Quality organizations.

The QA Test Manager has direct responsibility for managing our internal Technical Platform QA leadership team and our outsourced QA vendors.

The QA Test Manager will build and manage a QA group that assures quality engineering infrastructure, quality testing strategies for enterprise level systems, platforms and applications, management of product builds to QA, and release processes.

The QA Test Manager will work across the engineering team to direct and influence quality improvement initiatives, build and manage test beds and test harnesses to support
unit, system, and integration testing.

Responsibilities:

Lead and inspire a highly skilled Quality Assurance team responsible for Quality Assurance and product testing. 

Manage and operate the testing infrastructure supportive to engineers and quality group, including all system platforms, tools, and build environments. 

Develop and institutionalize quality assurance best practices across the Organization 

Work across the engineering team to develop and implement appropriate test beds and create test harnesses that may be reused across product iterations 

Establish criteria for test strategies for enterprise level platform products, courseware, and production tools. 

Plan and implement appropriate types of testing at appropriate development milestones: unit and component testing, system testing, integration testing, load and stress testing, overall performance testing, storage testing, bandwidth testing, as appropriate. 

Implement appropriate balance of white box, gray box, and black box testing per product type and system requirements 
Hire, train, and manage test leads and test engineers 

Ensure that vendor partner test strategies and test cases meet product test requirements via coordinating engineering and quality team reviews 

Design and present test results reports on bug discovery and resolution and overall product performance per test strategies 

Manage vendor partner relationships and costs, and liaise with Executive Producers and project managers on product budgets

Requirements:

BS in computer science or equivalent degree 

5 years as manager of a software quality assurance organization 

5-10 years in quality assurance, with experience writing test strategies, test cases, and in test automation 

Thorough understanding and knowledge of quality assurance processes, standards, methodologies, and tools

Enterprise level application and database testing, on multiple platforms, including UNIX, Windows, Mac 

Managerial experience in motivating and managing internal lead QA engineers who coordinate multiple outsource vendor partner testing. 

Build and release processes and protocols, with working knowledge of source control systems. 

Experience defining programs for Automated and Performance testing and developing new automated test procedures 

Experience with Load Runner or Silk Performer, QTP, WinRunner and other automated functional and Performance testing tools. 

Experience with multiple types of "performance" testing, including specification compliance, load and stress testing, storage and bandwidth testing and capacity planning. 

Ability to analyze large amounts of data and determine system areas of deficiency for further testing 

Desire and proven ability to improve product quality 

Strong interpersonal and proactive leadership skills 

Ability to excel in a fast-paced, high-growth environment where action and initiative are prerequisites to performing well

Team player with excellent verbal and written communication skills

For more info contact Eoin on 01 234 4118 or apply for this role online