Mission Statement for the Role:

To create clear and comprehensive release and deployment management plans by building, installing, testing and deploying Release Packages efficiently, successfully and on schedule.

Overall Responsibility:

The Quality Assurance Manager is responsible for the planning, design, development and implementation of test plans related to systems development or implementation efforts for Poa! internet.

Key SMART Results for A-Player

Deployment management of deliverables to the test environment particularly guaranteeing that the external dependent items are available during the test runtime and live-Q4 2023
Ensuring that requirements are clear across dependent project streams with an effective release-Q4 2023
Maintaining release schedules for every core service and ensuring it aligns with major vendors and other stakeholders-Q4 2023
Ensuring that releases operate as per expectations and bugs/issues per release are tracked-Q4 2023
Work with Product management to Create release guidelines to distribute across poa! internet-Q4 2023
Measuring and monitoring the progress of releases after deployment-Q4 2023
Providing weekly updates on release activities-Q4 2023

Level of Management Experience Required (Mandatory & Nice to Have)

Mandatory - Experience working as a IT Quality Assurance manager/ Supervisor 

Department stage of development where this role sits

Prepare for Scale / Systemization

Key Competencies Criticality (H, M, L)

Knowledge of Continuous Delivery and Continuous Integration (CD/CI) pipelines-H
Ability to use application-release automation (ARA) tools-H
Experience analyzing requirements, developing test approaches, writing comprehensive test plans and test cases, and preparing test data for data testing-H
Skilled in the design, development and implementation of processes and procedures that drive standardized management of application life-cycle activities-H
Experience applying Agile methodology to develop and execute application test plans including continuous integration and test-driven development- H
An understanding of quality assurance test methodologies, deliverables, processes, strategies, techniques and the software development life cycle (SDLC)-H
Ability to conduct needs analysis using requirements for various business processes, including information flow, reporting and applications for defined functional area; ability to document using standard terminology and formatting-H
Knowledge and experience with JIRA for tracking of issues and tasks-H
Demonstrated experience with testing at various phases of life-cycle (unit, integration, system, acceptance, regression) and test efficiencies (performance, stress, capacity)-H
Demonstrated experience with modern Application Life Cycle Management processes and tools for code management, version control, build management, continuous integration, integrated development environments, issue tracking, quality assurance and test automation-H

Mandatory Criteria if Any with no exceptions to hire:

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering (or similar) OR equivalent relevant professional experience and education.
Three or more years of experience working in IT Quality Assurance and Release Management.
Two or more years working in project management.