US-Oregon-LakeOswego: Quality Assurance Engineering Lead

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Date: 01-Mar-2011

Quality Assurance Engineering Lead

Principle Duties & Responsibilities:

This role requires an individual with good leadership skills, strong customer focus, comfort with collaboration across geographically-remote teams, and ability to drive and measure quality in a predictable manner. The successful candidate will have a passion and commitment for overseeing projects with a high caliber engineering team consisting of customers, software developers, product designers, technical authors, and quality assurance engineers in the validation of complex software and workflows.

· Assist managers in the evaluation, scope, cost, and staffing of projects. Serve as the liaison to QA management for project status, overall quality status, and risks. · Investigate and communicate anything that may impede progress on projects. · Oversee sub-team member activities and ensure proper team engagement and project success · Act as a customer champion throughout the development lifecycle to ensure that customer satisfaction is the highest priority quality measure for all products. · Demonstrate a strong capability to lead through influence vs. ownership. · Develop, implement, track, and report on team and quality metrics. · Develop comprehensive test strategies with a customer workflow focus. · Establish and drive process to stay up to date on customer workflows. · Proactively lead by example and serve as a means from which teammates can learn as well as advance their ideas and proposals. · Actively engage in technical issues from customers and drive them to resolution. · Pro-actively reach out and build quality partnerships with strategic customers · Mentor team members to improve their technical, communication, and leadership skills · Effectively communicate, collaborate and negotiate across teams. Requirements: · A minimum of 2 years of technical, process and team leadership experience for QA and/or design and development teams. · B.S. degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Mathematics, Mechanical Engineering, and/or Human Computer Interaction / Software Usability. · Strong written and verbal communication skills. · Solid understanding and experience in applying state-of-the-art software quality assurance methods, strategies, concepts, and tools. · Experience with commercial or internally developed automation tools. · Experience with 3D Mechanical CAD/CAE software (CATIA, IDEAS, Pro/Engineer, Inventor) is a plus. · Experience working directly with customers in a support or service environment is plus.

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Team SQAFYI - Software QA Resource FYI
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