Director, Quality Assurance

Director, Quality Assurance
This role has been designed as ‘’Onsite’ with an expectation that you will primarily work from an HPE office.

Job Description:

Job Family Definition:

Directs, manages, leads, and coordinates the integration of existing and/or new Information Technology solutions according to requirements of one or more functions, businesses, geographies, and/or IT transformational activities. Areas of responsibility may include business and technical systems design, acquisition and/or development, implementation, and support; infrastructure design, acquisition, implementation, operation, and maintenance; client services support. Establishes functional business plans and technical project/program objectives to meet the short- and long-term goals and metrics of the organization, including internal/external partners required to utilize alternative resourcing plans. Understands, articulates, and optimizes application and process capabilities for use by multiple/all business and IT constituents; drives architectural standards and simplification. Ensures the design, development, delivery and supportability of services/solutions for businesses are in accordance with business and IT objectives.

Management Level Definition:

Leads a large or broad function/department within a multifaceted organization. Responsible for operational success, strategic alignment and integration of activities with other major organizational functions. Responsible for one or more recognized professional disciplines. Fully accountable for the success of the designated function or department. Influences strategy and sets policy and direction. Owns a significant number of measurable functional, operational and strategic goals or priorities. Assumes responsibility for the successful implementation of business plans in a defined area of responsibility. Contributes to the overall strategic definition of a function with strong business acumen. Acts as a key advisor to executive management in influencing the strategic direction of the business. Typically reports to VP.

You will be responsible for:

• Create and communicate a strategic vision and mission for the QA CoE function to meet company objectives.
• Define a comprehensive Quality Assurance strategy, standards, best practices, and organizational outcomes for the organization.
• Oversee the implementation and operations of Quality Assurance processes and policies through the product and services development lifecycle.
• Ensure that Quality Assurance processes are integrated with the software (and associated infrastructure components) development lifecycle. Align and support Agile, Waterfall or other methodologies.
• Define the minimum standards for testing environments, test data creation, etc. Own the overall orchestration of environments to support continuous regression, performance, load, security, etc. testing.
• Oversee the master test script library and set up processes and control to continue to grow test coverage capabilities.
• Drive towards and shift-left testing capability. Work with stakeholders to increasingly leverage CI/CD and Testing automation capabilities to improve and speed testing abilities.
• Evaluate, select, and implement comprehensive testing frameworks and tools. Oversee smooth and efficient execution of comprehensive testing services for development teams.
• Identify areas of improvement within existing environment, capabilities, and processes. Instill a culture of continuous improvement.
• Define and measure quality related KPI’s to evaluate the productivity and effectiveness of the organization. Generate associated dashboards and reports for the organization.
• Lead and manage HPE Global IT’s Quality Assurance Center of Excellence. Set clear goals and expectations for the QA CoE team and ensure ownership and accountability within the team.

If you have a proven track record of success and want to be part of a business that is growing—with great opportunities, and are ready for your next role, then please apply today.

How you’ll make your mark:

• A bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems or related field. Masters is preferred.
• 10+ years of experience leading software Quality Assurance teams that delivered services using high degree of automation.
• Previous experience establishing and governing comprehensive Quality Assurance strategies – quality standards, policies, procedures, environment and test data provisioning and orchestration, creation and automation of testing scripts, related documentation, and knowledge management, etc.
• Proven experience overseeing execution of various types of testing – functional, SIT, UAT, regression, load, performance, vulnerability scanning, failure mode and effect analysis, etc.
• Good understanding of different software development methodologies (i.e. agile, waterfall, etc.)
• Good understanding of leading software development and testing suites and tools (i.e. Tricentis, Selenium, Test Director, SpiraPlan, Confluence, jira, Git, etc.)
• Good understanding of observability tools; establishing and measuring quality related KPI’s and leveraging them to drive a continuous improvement culture.
• Familiarity with Scenario Based Testing using Behavior Driven Development and/or Test Driven Development approaches.
• Have an active talent management approach to recruit, onboard, mentor and inspire a highly skilled, engaged, and diverse team. Coach and mentor resources across the organization.
• Manage relationships with third-party Quality Assurance related vendors and partners.
• Demonstrated strong leadership, interpersonal and communication skills, strategic thinker, technology visionary.

Accountability, Accountability, Action Planning, Active Learning, Active Listening, Agile Methodology, Bias, Business, Coaching, Creativity, Critical Thinking, Cybersecurity, Data Analysis Management, Data Collection Management, Data Controls, Design Thinking, Development Methodologies, Empathy, Follow-Through, Growth Mindset, Implementation Methodologies, Infrastructure Design, Intellectual Curiosity, Long Term Planning, Managing Ambiguity {+ 4 more}

Health & Wellbeing

We strive to provide our team members and their loved ones with a comprehensive suite of benefits that supports their physical, financial and emotional wellbeing.

Personal & Professional Development

We also invest in your career because the better you are, the better we all are. We have specific programs catered to helping you reach any career goals you have — whether you want to become a knowledge expert in your field or apply your skills to another division.

Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We are unconditionally inclusive in the way we work and celebrate individual uniqueness. We know diverse backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good.

Job:

Information Technology

Job Level:

Director

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