This company is a market leader within their innovative and relevant healthcare niche. Their commercial software products serve elderly populations in coordinating and facilitating the post-acute services continuum in the context of national healthcare.
*Experience in SaaS/commercial software, Agile, and Automated Testing environments summarizes relevance for this position.
DIRECTOR of QUALITY MANAGEMENT
The
Director of Software Quality will
provide vision, leadership and direction for the entire software quality
management process throughout R&D.
As the Director of Software Quality
you will be deeply in charge of developing software product quality processes,
establish system performance monitoring and quality metrics. In addition, you will lead our critical team
of software quality engineers will be responsible for coaching and mentoring of
each of these team members. We are
seeking a highly hands-on and visible champion of total quality management
across our multi-geographic product teams.
The
Director, Software Quality will be
responsible for retaining and growing our software quality assurance. Our
customers utilize our broad web and mobile based solutions across the nation
and as the Director of Software Quality
you will be responsible for establishing processes to manage quality for our
customers across our New Product Introduction process as well as monitoring and
plan fully reacting to experiences in production software. The Director will report into the SVP R&D/CTO and be based in Bloomington, MN, just outside of Minneapolis.
This position requires at least five
years of software quality management experience, including at least three years
leading in a large multi-tenant SaaS environments. In addition, the position
requires experience leading quality in complex, multi-year enterprise-wide
programs and expertise with various process improvement methodologies such as
test driven design, Lean and Six Sigma.
Our ideal candidate will have prior
health care experience as well as experience working in both enterprise and
technology-focused software development organization. Expertise in Agile
software development methodologies preferred.
Primary Responsibilities
Strategic Leadership
·
Create a vision for
total quality management, testing, performance management and regression
testing across our product lines.
·
Partner with other
leaders to foster a workplace culture of continuous process improvement. Drive
change management efforts to increase acceptance of project improvement
initiatives.
·
Track and report on
product performance to ensure our products are effective and consistently
adding value to our customers.
Project and Technical Leadership
·
Establish a common
set of practices, principles, processes and methodologies for managing quality
across our product lines. Monitor
compliance to processes.
·
Oversee all aspects
of test development, management and execution.
·
Advise and assist
leaders and cross-functional teams on the best use of quality management
disciplines and approaches. Share best practices and lessons learned across
programs and projects. Advocate for best practices in quality assurance.
·
Build, select and
maintain QA and test management tools.
Lead and review initiatives for automation of test cases across
products.
·
Prepare product and
process quality reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing information
and trends. Make data-driven recommendations to enhance operational excellence,
leading the implementation of new processes and activities. Ensure on-time, on-budget, and on-specification delivery
on all programs.
·
Drives efficiency analysis and
ongoing process improvement.
·
Enhances the pace and
productivity of development through introduction of industry best practices and
modern Software Development Lifecycle approaches.
Qualifications
·
Process-oriented and intimately
familiar with modern test technologies and tools such as Rational tool set,
QTP, Win runner, Load runner, Silk test or Selenium. Must have experience in
leading test automation initiatives.
·
Be able to contribute and direct
at all levels of testing including unit, functional, automation, performance
and scalability testing. Be able to function as a QA Architect and be able to
step in and provide leadership in test design and implementation
·
Familiar with all of the
test-related aspects of the software development life cycle.
·
Have communication skills
necessary to build and maintain a highly effective QA organization.
·
Willingness and ability to travel
both domestically and internationally (up to 20% total)
Education
BS in Computer Science or Electrical
Computer Engineering or the equivalent technical education and experience
required; MBA or Master’s degree in health
care management is a plus.
PMP, Six Sigma, Lean or related
certification (or equivalent training) preferred.
Experience
•
5+ years software quality product development including software and SaaS environments
• 3 + years of experience in software development for healthcare IT, consumer software or wireless connectivity/ Cloud software
• 3 + years of experience in software development for healthcare IT, consumer software or wireless connectivity/ Cloud software
• 2+ years’ experience working with distributed
teams, including offshore partners
• Previous experience managing large web-based
applications and solutions
• Strong understanding of application, database,
technical infrastructure and supporting systems
• Experience managing resources, relationships, and
delivery
•
Demonstrable track record of delivering results
• Experience in leading programs utilizing Agile product development process
• Experience in leading programs utilizing Agile product development process
For more detail or to be considered, contact me directly-
Michael Reitz
Sr. Executive Recruiter
Michael Reitz & Associates LLC
michael@michaelreitz.net
952-240-6093
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