Director – QA Great River

Director – QA Great River

Requirements

• Requires a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Information Systems or Computer Science or equivalent combination of experience and education.
• Must be able to read, understand, and develop code for web-based programming. This may include AWS, .Net, Java, ASP, HTML, SQL and .Net languages.
• Must understand general programming standards, operating systems, workflow cycles, development life cycle, and terminology.
• Requires a general understanding of business operations, business terminology, and business communications.
• 10+ years programming leadership experience building web based enterprise software products leveraging C#, ASP.NET, & SQL, or specialized training combined with experience.
• Must demonstrate an ability to see the broader picture of impact of developed processes.
• Must understand development industry standards and practices.
• Must be able to demonstrate individual and team work effort in collaborative processes.
• Understanding of Object Oriented Programming.

Responsibilities

• Provide cross-functional technical leadership, coaching and guidance to leaders across the software development organization, including direct management and leadership for a quality assurance team.
• Maximize the capability and capacity of resources to deliver high quality solutions with a high functioning and accountable engineering test team.
• Strategize for and set business operational objectives, business requirements, roadmap assistance while overseeing the completion of department goals, strategies, and financial budgets.
• Effectively and routinely produce, review, manage to, and control operational and quality metrics and status. This is including but not limited to queue churn, trending, resource utilization, risk assessment and mitigation, project initiatives, and department-related data elements.
• Make timely and effective decisions to ensure the team is prepared to deliver solutions on a strategic roadmap not just for the short-term.
• Identify, lead, and gain adoption of cross-functional change initiatives, challenging the status quo, and develop strategies to support change in engineering and test processes, framework, tooling, and strategy.
• Accountable for ensuring the capability and capacity of the team to advance and leverage the latest in programming languages, industry standards and software development methodologies.
• Become a trusted advisor for executive leaders across the company.
• Maintain knowledge of industry and departmental standards, policies and procedures, and movement to evaluate any strategic initiative impacts.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience performing and managing manual and automated test validation against secure, scalable and highly available web and mobile applications, large-scale distributed systems across technical stacks that use varying architectures such as: microservices, serverless architecture, or service-oriented.
• Experience working with a distributed workforce in varying time zones.
• Experience with a variety of testing tools and frameworks: Selenium, Cucumber, Appium, JMeter, Postman, AWS, Lambda, AI Integration, BitBucket, TestNG, DevOps tools.
• Prior programming skills.
• Understanding of healthcare systems with focus in areas such as; medication management, claims processing, etc.