Tuesday, October 31, 2006
PM-QA in Dallas, TX
Our Fortune 500 client headquartered in Dallas, Texas has a great contract to hire opportunity for a Software Quality Assurance Lead.
As the Software Quality Assurance Lead, you will ensure software meets agreed customers requirements prior to release and establishes the software quality strategy for the organization including guidelines for inspections, assessments, testing, defect reporting, and verification of defect resolution as well as process adherence, reviews and sign-offs as defined by our client's IS Department.
You will assist in the management of a team of professionals responsible for quality verification and validation of the organizations software development projects and programs.
Responsibilities:
Work in conjunction with the Software Quality Assurance Manager to:
Coordinate the quality effort for the entire software lifecycle.
Work with the product development team to design for testability, plan testing, and plan other quality assurance activities.
Define priorities for the quality teams and delegate responsibilities.
Create, track, and maintain quality plans and schedules.
Coordinate, manage and track the QA teams efforts, ensuring milestones are met within defined budgets and schedules.
Lead the design and implementation of new quality assurance methods and procedures
Provide technical advice and guidance to management and QA team on matters of Quality Assurance activities.
Identify incentives, rewards, repercussions, penalties, consequences that will be effective in improving processes and their use.
Review and approve test plans for unit testing, integration / interoperability testing and acceptance testing.
Document and report quality assurance findings to project/program managers., development team, follow-up on ongoing test activities.
Coordinate and lead reviews and inspections.
Train IT project team members for inspections
Track and analyze historical data to predict future performance.
Engage in quality assurance and process improvement activities.
Act as an advocate for quality in the organization.
Assist in the maintenance of the SQA intranet site and content
Experience Required:
Expertise in quality methodology including knowledge of process and methodology to build quality into software. (FAGAN knowledge a plus)
Expertise in the use and interpretation quality metrics.
Experience with inspection processes
Experience with function point counting.(IFPUG certification is a plus)
Experience with Oracle Applications functional development/implementation would be a plus
Experience with project management of complex projects/programs (PMP certification is a plus)
Experience in troubleshooting and monitoring testing operations, project management implementation and coordinating the work of a QA team.
Experience in developing, implementing and reporting quality assurance test plans, procedures and results/findings.
Experience in Quality Assurance and Quality Control processes.
Experience in a structured testing environment.
Hands-on experience with complex software systems, networking, and databases.
If you have this background and have an interest in working for a successful and world renowned organization, please send your resume to .
Capstone offers competitive pay, health insurance and 401K benefits.
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