Position: Head of Testing/Functional QA Manager/QA Lead/Testing Team Lead
Category: Lead
English level: upper
Years of experience: 11

Excellent people management skills.
Great customer cooperation skills.
Good experience with Scrum methodology.
Successful experience in building of QA processes and QA teams from scratch.
Successful story of moving low performing QA department into one of the best and most productive team.
Introduction and spreading of Test Automation initiative within the company.
Strong experience in Change management.
Manage QA team as well as QA processes on several projects/within QA department (30+ QAs/5-7 projects at a time).
Finalist of the European Software Testing award for the project leaded by me.
Passionate about quality and making it successful part of software development process.
Experienced QA Team Manager with 14+ years of experience in Testing Area, 10+ of which on leading positions.
Proven successful cases of building QA team from scratch, testing standards implementation, complete overhaul of QA services for client (documentation standardization, metrics implementation, best practices creation for QA processes, estimation, tests automation); growing inhouse talents in manual QA, test automation and test management directions.
Transformation of team, mindset, processes from waterfall to agile development model.
Test automation introduction from scratch and enrolling to all projects using traditional pyramid approach.
Growing QA department to successful productive engineering team that follows nowadays technologies and lives in continuance improvement work mindset.
Finalist of the European Software Testing award for the project leaded by me.
Passionate about the quality and making it a successful part of software development process.

Main responsibilities:
I. People management & QA department development:
a. People prescreening and onboarding.
b. Manage and mentor members of QA engineering team.
c. Contribute to knowledge sharing (e.g., conducting internal training and writing Knowledge base articles) and other internal communication forums.
d. Collaborate with management on the technical vision for the organization, working to achieve the best technical solutions for the customers’ needs.
e. Risk management.
f. Change management.
g. QA processes establishment from scratch, from bottle neck to successful department.

II. Team capacity management:
a. Responsible for resource allocation to ensure engineers with the right skill sets are assigned to appropriate client projects.
b. Track and report on resource utilization identifying any resource imbalances and meeting team’s billable utilization goals.

III. Adherence and alignment with other organization departments:
a. Collaborate with other engineering managers to ensure consistency and alignment between engineering groups.
b. Ensure the adherence to organizationally defined technical practices and procedures.

IV. Customer oriented: solid experience in establishing strong collaboration with customer, getting full trust in team and process development and management.
Functional manager for QA team.
Preference for the job:
Methodologies used on projects: Agile (Scrum).
Business domains: finance, reporting, BI, ERP systems etc.
QA team: QA manual, QA analysts, test managers and QA automation.
Ideally it would be great to join project/company at the beginning stage, where all the processes as well as team are being under setup/need to be setup. However, open for any other environment.