Position: QA Manager
Location: Boston, MA Area
Outstanding Compensation Package - Base + Bonus + PS
Local Candidates Only - No Sponsorship

Company:
Large, successful, and growing Boston based Investment Management Firm -
Great Company - Lots of Upside - Excellent Compensation Package - Bonus -
Profit Sharing etc. Join a team oriented, collaborative, results focused
environment and become part of an elite organization with great growth
possibilities.

Position Responsibilities - Summary:
The Quality Management institutes best practices and consistency across
application teams with the goals of reducing development costs, shortening
release cycles and improving code quality.

The Quality Management Center seeks a QA Manager to help us continue to
improve the overall quality of our application portfolio. In this key role
the individual will supervise the testing for an entire suite of
applications across development teams, with a strong focus on automation.
The successful candidate will have strong QA management experience, a strong
knowledge of software quality assurance methodologies and best practices,
and experience in the delivery of multiple large-scale software projects
simultaneously. Experience working with trading systems is a plus.

Key Responsibilities:
As the Manager of several QA teams, the person will be a lead for all
ongoing projects with a focus on the delivery of various testing-related
initiatives. Specific responsibilities include:
- Deliver all Testing projects and operations within the portfolio
of applications in multiple development teams
- Partner with Development and Application managers on integrating
Quality Management into the overall SDLC processes
- Collaborate with Application & Development teams to drive testing
process standardization, adoption, and improvement
- Identify and implement QA process and tool improvements that lead
to increased workplace productivity
- Plan and implement test automation processes for different
applications/technologies
- Review and approve Test Strategy and Test Plans for various
testing engagements
- Review quality and delivery metrics that measure the benefits for
their teams and track the quality of services delivered
- Coordinate work across multiple teams to develop, update, and
implement contingencies to meet changing project or service needs
- Ensure that the appropriate test infrastructure and tools for
project teams are delivered
- Manage a team of employees and consultants
Keys to This Position:
1. Strong Management skills required. This individual will manage
approximately 20 QA Analysts. The key to this job is that we need a very
strong leader that can effect change - Change Agent. Great communication
and relationship management skills
2. Strong QA background required, but does not need to be hands on at this
time because Management is more the focus. The candidate should have past
or recent experience with a variety of QA tools that includes but is not
limited to: Test Director, Quality Center, Silk suite, Performance Tools,
defect tracking tools, code debug tools, etc.
3. Financial Services is required. This individual will be supporting the
Trading Systems team. Firm is in the process of building a new Global
Trading System.
Required Skills and Competencies:
The ideal candidate will have excellent leadership, technical expertise and
communication skills. The individual must possess thorough understanding of
QA Principles, techniques, & technologies and various software development
methodologies including Agile principles. Specific qualifications include:
- 10+ years of Software Application development and/or testing
experience
- 5+ years experience in Software QA/Testing Management and Team
Leadership
- 3+ years experience in test automation scripts and test automation
frameworks
- Experience managing diverse teams of 20 or more people
- Understanding of Object-Oriented and data driven testing
methodologies
- Experience in producing program level QA metrics for test case
coverage and defect workflow status
- Experience with a variety of QA tools that includes but not
limited to: HP Quality Center, QTP, Test Director, Silk suite, performance
tools, defect tracking tools, code debug tools, etc.
- Experience with different facets of QA tests such as functional,
regression, integration, performance, UAT, and operational readiness testing
- Experience with release and configuration management
- Must be self-motivated, able to work independently and thrive in a
fast-paced, multi-tasking, high stress, high productivity environment while
maintaining excellent working relationships with people in a wide variety of
functional areas
- Strong team leadership and management skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to manage conflicting priorities effectively
- Computer Science degree or related field
- Experience working in Financial Service industry; trading systems
expertise is a positive

Contact Information:
Gary Wright - President - Wright Associates
Phone - (508) 761-6354
Email - replywrightassociates AT verizon DOT net
Website - www.wrightassociates.org