Senior Director of QA

This is a major career opportunity for the right candidate. Our client is a public, highly-respected technology firm in Silicon Valley. Position reports to a senior executive. High-visibility career move for the right person.

Responsibilities:
- Establish QA process and guidelines for enterprise product lines.

- Contribute to the definition and implementation of product development processes, and specifically QA processes.

- Establish Company-wide QA metrics for product quality and QA effectiveness.

- Define overall automation strategy

- Contribute to the continuous improvement for product quality initiatives.

- Analyze and report QA test results, project tracking and product release readiness from the various QA teams.

- Understand and perform risk mitigation to meet deadlines.

- Ability to influence development organizations within the organization.

- Represent QA in customer meetings.

- Evangelize process changes to positively impact product quality

Requirements:
- 15 yrs of QA experience at a software company with experience in qualifying hardware/SW platforms (NOT Database or applications companies)

- 10-15 years of recent experience in leading/managing software QA teams across geographies.

- Previous experience in managing QA managers and their teams.

- Experience in testing large-scale Enterprise software, with preference going to individuals with a background in Operating Systems.

- Experience in bringing TEST automation to a fast growing company.

- Demonstrated ability to work independently with an aptitude for directing quality assurance engineers and analysts along with a proven history of making product lifecycle process improvements.

- Strong analytical skills.

- Ability to deal with ambiguity and to execute with minimal supervision.

- Demonstrated skill in using initiative and knowledge in testing efforts.

- Ability to motivate people, instill accountability, and achieve results.

Education
BSCS or a related engineering discipline required; MSCS preferred.

Please send your *detailed- resume, showing your specific accomplishments in the above-mentioned areas to: hank@ocgrp.com