Quality Assurance Manager

  Spain

• Malaga: 
Malaga

Length of Position: Permanent
Dates: Immediate

Description: Our Client requires a Quality Assurance Manager who is responsible for quality assurance across the whole organization based in Malaga, Spain.

The QA Manager will set in place processes and practices to ensure that our software products at all levels demonstrate the sort of quality and polish that we stand for.

The QA Manager is based as part of the Software Development team providing start-to-finish QA support to all products, as well as coordinating with project managers, technical team leads and product managers to improve QA delivery at all stages of product development.

Responsibilities:

- Implement QA process/methodologies to ensure that our world class entertainment & business software systems are to the highest level of quality
- Develop and execute on a master testing strategy applicable across all products and services
- Analyze quality metrics and report to senior management about status as well as input leading to solid business decisions
- Database backup and recovery
- Coordinate between projects for QA, Integration Testing, User Acceptance, Performance, Test Data and Test - Environment management
- Evangelize QA methods/processes to all supporting groups/departments
- Evaluate QA project plans to ensure deadlines are to be met
- Deliver solutions to changing business requirements on pressured timelines
- Liaise with personnel from all levels of an organization, both IT and business focused
- Drive initiatives across a team comprised of Quality Analysts. Forecasted growth in is to have 15 staff by the end of 2009
- Experience in establishing and growing a QA team in a hyper growth organization a huge plus
Manage technical tests and automation testing

If you possess the above skills and knowledge and are prepared to work in a team environment then please email us a copy of your CV (in Word format).

Qualifications:
- Only industry experience suitable is either: online gaming, stock broking/trading or banking. Major preference for gaming over the other two industries
- Must have Q.A. Manager experience of software development projects in the above industries
- EU citizen with excellent English
- Full time, long term career vision (not a contractor mentality)
- 5-7 years in Software QA, with at least 3+ years in management
- Bachelors degree in related discipline (Computer Science, Information Systems etc)
- Experience writing test cases and plans. This includes the creation, execution, and reporting of status
- Experience with multiple test/defect tracking systems (test case management, project planning tools, test automation)
- Excellent communication and leadership skills
- Line management experience (recruiting, performance reviews, salary evaluation)
- Solid understanding of the Software Life Cycle (SDLC) and QA's place within it
- Strong understanding of project delivery and implementation and Support methodology
- Experience in establishing and growing a QA team in a hyper growth organization a huge plus
- Implementing QA into an agile development environment is a plus

Minimum Education: Bachelors

Salary / Pay: EUR 50,000 - EUR 60,000

Experience Required: no

This Program is open to European Participants.

Participants Travel to Spain Independently

Application Process Involves:

• In-Person Interview Required
• Letters of Reference
• Phone Interview
• Resume

Post-Program Services Include:

• Job and Internship Network

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Year Founded: 2008