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Software Quality Assurance Manager - SQA

Company The McGraw-Hill Companies
Wage Not specified
Location United States, California, Monterey
Employment type Full Time
Education Not Specified
Year Experience 4 - 5 Years of Practical Experience
Travel Not Specified
Published on 7/25/2008
Description
As the knowledge economy takes off worldwide, there is a growing demand for both traditional and non-traditional education. Which translates into an accelerated demand for cutting-edge, online learning solutions. The kind of solutions that McGraw-Hill Education offers to the world every day. McGraw-Hill Education addresses virtually every aspect of the education market from pre-K through professional learning. Our technical innovations are changing the way people learn, with e-books, online tutoring, customized course Web sites and subscription services. Now is the time to team up with our dynamic company as we create our next generation of who we need to be for our customers!

CTB and The Grow Network, make up the Assessment and Reporting business function of McGraw-Hill Education. This Group creates and builds a comprehensive range of formative and summative assessments, reporting tools, individual study guides, instructional programs, software, and services, all built upon a tradition of research, innovation, and technical quality that benefit learners of all ages.

We currently have an outstanding opportunity for a SOFTWARE QUALITY ASSURANCE MANAGER (Windows SQA Mgr) for our team in Monterey, CA.

You will be responsible for accepting project deliverables, ensuring they meet business needs and best practices through testing and evaluation. You will provide leadership and mentoring for both assurance and compliance functions. You will interact with all levels of project and business management with the ability to investigate, evaluate, document, monitor and resolve project quality problems.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Plan, direct and co-ordinate quality assurance activities: test planning, execution, recording, ensuring all software products are released on schedule.

Develop/improve the definition of test philosophies and methodologies for all SQA activities; implement these improvements.

Provide estimates for scheduling, tracking all projects for on time deliverables.

Provide mentoring/training for other QA team members, 3-5 direct reports, consulting staff.

Establish/implement defect prevention techniques in the SDLC for all software.

Represent as needed for scope reviews, requirements and design reviews, software inspections/root cause analysis, code reviews and post-mortems.

Identify, track, advocate resolution of software interdependencies and interoperability issues among product lines.

Develop reviews and maintain quality/reliability records.

Review and recommend systems for identifying, investigating, reporting and correcting quality problems.

Develop/implement processes and procedures for release management, defect tracking and issues management.

7+ years QA experience with extensive leadership/management of a QA team

OR

Bachelor's Degree with 5+ years QA experience with extensive leadership/management of a QA team.

Broad experience developing and implementing quality management systems.

Demonstrated success developing SQA systems in overall software and systems development lifecycles.

MUST have demonstrated success implementing governance, configuration management (CM), and release management disciplines within a technology environment.

Experience in coordinating large, complex integrated testing efforts a plus.

Strong experience with Oracle 9i SQL or PL/SQL, Sybase, Unix/PERL script a plus.

Leading/conducting performance testing, working in a formal systems development and testing methodologies are all pluses, not required.

Outstanding leadership skills: team building, mentoring, problem solving, planning.

Strong knowledge of systems, software development, manufacturing operations.

Excellent interpersonal skills and proven ability to work with internal/external customers.

Travel as needed.

About CTB/McGraw-Hill:
As the nation's leading publisher of standardized and standards-based achievement tests for pre-school, elementary, middle, high school, and adult education, CTB/McGraw-Hill LLC offers a broad range of assessments, software and services. CTB/McGraw-Hill LLC is part of the Assessment and Reporting group of McGraw-Hill Education, a leading global provider of instructional, assessment and reference solutions that empower professionals and students of all ages. Additional information is available at [link removed] http:// [link removed]

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Software Quality Assurance Manager - SQA