Description :

A Day in your life at MKS :

The Senior Manager, IT Quality Assurance sets, drives and executes the overall QA Strategy that aligns to the wider IT strategy for quality assurance, including new technologies, processes and/or procedures in pursuit of continuous improvement.

Your Key Responsibilities will be :

- Leads the IT Quality Assurance group through a clearly defined process-driven methodology to ensure project goals, QA standards, and internal best practices are routinely and meticulously followed.

- Partners with Development teams to review business / technical requirements and generates comprehensive test strategy, plans, impact analysis and test cases for effective assurance and testing functions.

- Perform QA recruiting and vendor management activities.

- Responsible for hiring and managing employees and managing vendor contracts and SLAs.

- Contribute to and/or establish new set of best-practices, processes, scorecards and tooling for Quality Assurance organization.

- This is to ensure that overall productivity and quality is measured at all times and improved in line with targeted milestones.

- Serves as the Test Automation expert, responsible for establishing a standards-based automation / performance testing competency with a robust testing framework, testing & test management tools, test data and test cases for key applications across the portfolio.

- Publishes a standardized QA productivity as well as Project and Release Testing status reporting across all projects / applications on a routine basis.

- Assumes ownership and governance of QA environment.

- This involves coordinating the refresh of databases, environments and review / approval of application build releases to QA environments and shakedown testing of these environments.

What you bring to our team :

- Bachelors of Science in Computer Science, Information Systems Management, or related field is strongly preferred.

- 7 - 10+ years IT Quality Assurance experience required.

- 5+ years as a QA leader (lead, manager or above). Strong management and leadership experience

- Experience is required in managing software / application quality assurance at scale.

- Proven track record in leading development of test automation strategy, tools and frameworks.

- Communicating, deploying, and maintaining new quality assurance processes across project teams

- Experience testing with ERP deployments (preferably Oracle and/or SAP)

- Expert level, hands-on experience with Automation Testing Tools and Performance Testing Tools (preferably UiPath).

- Experience/proficiency with Agile methodology

- Strong hands-on experience with test planning and execution for UI as well as back-office systems that require Web services or batch-based integrations and implementations.

- In-depth software and development lifecycle knowledge.

- Strong understanding of network and security design and the implication of these on performance; and ability recommend alternative solutions for addressing application bottlenecks.

- Comfortable with fast-paced and schedule driven development.

The job is for:

Women candidates preferred

For women joining back the workforce