Friday, November 30, 2007

QA Director in New York, NY

Friday, November 30, 2007
Our client is looking for a QA Director.

General Description: The QA Director is an experienced, hands-on professional, responsible for on shore and off shore QA engineers in testing the performance, reliability, scalability, and functionality of our world-class ContextAd Internet advertising system. The QA Director will define test strategy, execute test plans, review test and product specifications, and define/select the appropriate test tools and automation strategies to deliver a high quality product.



Essential Duties and Responsibilities:



. Lead on shore and off shore QA teams.

. Ensure the quality of our high volume ad serving infrastructure and customer portals.

. Manage the development of testing strategies and test cases.

. Review product requirements.

. Project and vendor management.

. Responsibilities include working closely with Development, Product Management, and the Tech Operations team to test and deploy scheduled releases and hot fixes.

. Select and manage the usage of our QA tools.



Skills and Qualifications:



The following are the minimum requirements for consideration.



. A strong and verifiable 7+ year track record of Internet industry experience, to include extensive experience in each of the following: leveraging automation, developing new automated test suites, evaluating test coverage, performance benchmarking, providing high-quality feedback on the state of the product, work with large scale server systems architecture and design, a track record testing Internet based services that are well regarded for their quality, scale and stability - ideally .NET and ASP.NET services running on Windows.

. In addition, you will have extensive experience in managing a backend QA team with 5-7 team members in various stages of the business and the software life cycle, with strong results in all phases.

. Ability to identify and raise project issues and risks, and to propose helpful resolution strategies to more senior managers so they can make informed and accurate decisions from available choices.

. Experience with some of these tools: QuickTestPro, Load Runner, bug tracking tools such as QualityCenter, RequestTracker, Remedy, Elementool, and other industry standard QA testing tools.

. A working knowledge of SQL and SQL databases.

. Considerable experience developing, executing, and automating test plans for back end and front end systems.



To enhance your candidacy, you should also have:



. BS in Computer Science with 7+ years of work experience.

. Strong hands on experience in designing and developing test harness tools and automated (front and back end) testing in the web world.

. Extensive experience working with object oriented code bases such as C#, Java, or C++.

. Managed multiple projects concurrently.

. Successful history of defining and leveraging automation.

. Experience diagnosing and resolving production issues.








Experience: 7+ Years

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