QA Manager

QA Manager

**Job details**:
**Location**

Málaga**Job type**
- Permanent**Discipline**
- QA and Testing**Reference**

35263**Contact Name**

Prashansa Diwaker**Job description**:
**Looking for a QA Manager for an award-winning company.**
- Leading software tech company
- Award-winning booking and property management platform
- Champion for independent accommodations
- Helping B&Bs, hotels, pubs, and vacation rentals/serviced apartments, manage guests, bookings and travel agencies
- Flexibility to work completely remote

**About the company-**

Having radically changed its business model, they are a vibrant young company, with offices in the UK, France, Germany, Austin TX and more recently in Malaga, Spain. The company has regularly made the Times top 100 Tech Track index and its flagship product has won many prestigious awards since 2016, including the sought after Travolution award for best technology and Expedia’s global innovation award.

**Responsibilities**:

- Planning and coordinating with QA teams to formulate quality control practices in the organization and help in improving organization’s efficiency and profitability.
- Good with line management and product management experience
- Provide supervision and direction to team members and staff
- Delegate, coach, coordinate and lead co-workers and project team members
- Leads a functional team with responsibility for utilization, assignments, and reports to a pillar leader
- Has direct responsibility for supervising personnel (i.e. set goals, assigns work, reviews performance, and conducts career development discussions)
- Create/Assist/Troubleshoot the development of Test Automation Framework, Standards, Procedures,
- Manage the Daily/Weekly activities of the Test Automation Team Members and support the onboarding of new team members
- Provide technical guidance and expertise to team members, colleagues and/or customers
- Contribute to program/project review meetings. Support Quality Assurance Management in determining status assessing problem areas, suggesting, and reviewing corrective actions.
- Provide authoritative advice and guidance on any aspect of test planning and execution.
- Assist in the development of quality assurance and testing policies, standards and procedures, processes, and best practices as related to automation through a Community of Practice

**Analytical/Decision Making Responsibilities**:

- Proactive approach to identifying issues and presenting solutions and options, and where appropriate, leading to resolution
- Ability to clearly articulate both problems and proposed solutions
- Ability to prioritize personal and team workloads to best meet organizational objectives
- Empowered to make decisions and recommend approach based on the results from quality reviews.

**Knowledge and Skills Requirements**:

- Experience required 7-8 years
- Excellent attention to detail
- Good interpersonal, communication and organizational skills
- Motivated by delivery and speed to outcome
- Ability to determine strategic direction not just tactical
- The ability to work and team effectively with clients and other management personnel across geographies
- Ability to deal efficiently with escalations and difficult situations under pressure
- Knowledge of Software Development Lifecycle including the functional and non-functional test phases
- Knowledge of Quality Management techniques