Quality Assurance Manager/ QA Manager- Oxford

This is an excellent opportunity to join a fantastic organisation as a Quality Assurance Manager/ QA Manager.

You will be required to work effectively as part of self-managing, cross-functional Agile teams.

Create and maintain documentation on your work and review of others as required. Follow the Jira Scrum workflow and suggest / implement improvements.

Key Responsibilities

• Management of QA resources within the group and external partners (offshore).

• Management of on and offshore resources, communication and scheduling of tasks.

• Define test strategies, test plans and provide guidance for junior level QA technicians.

• Line management and personal development of a team of QA technicians, ensuring efficient completion of tasks to required technical and quality standards and best practices.

• Production of management reports and QA phase exit reports across multiple products / implementation projects.

• Take ownership of the test strategy for each project ensuring an adequate level of test coverage is achieved to deliver a quality solution to the end customer.

• Plan and manage the generation of test scripts and test estimates.

• Define and implement measurable KPIs and improvements to our existing processes and automated tools with the goal of increased testing scope and quality.

Essential Skills

• In-depth understanding and use of formal testing methods

• Demonstrable experience in all aspects of functional and non-functional testing of enterprise software applications

• Sound understanding and experience of the full Software Development Lifecycle

• Experience of working within a Scrum agile team.

• Experience of working with and managing offshore and 3rd party team members.

• Experience of testing systems built using the following technologies:

Java

.NET (web and client/server)

Web Services

Browser based applications

Browser report testing

SQL / Oracle database

JavaScript

If this sounds like you apply immediately