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   From: pce@magma.ca   
      
   Manager, Quality Assurance - s/w acceptance testing - Ottawa - fulltime   
      
   The Manager of the Quality Assurance (QA) team, plays a central role in   
   ensuring reliable solutions are delivered to the business.   
      
   You will conduct regular reviews of testing methodologies and processes to   
   maximize the efficiency of software acceptance testing.   
   You will lead the testing team to implement new QA processes and practices.   
   Why?   
      
   As the current environment relies heavily on manual testing methods you will   
   move the team to Automated Testing solutions.   
      
   As a key contributor within the organization you will be responsible for   
   identifying and resolves bottlenecks that may prevent the IT projects from   
   proceeding on schedule, and highlight issues and recommend actions to senior   
   management.   
      
    The day to day:   
      
    - Activities, management, conduct and performance of the QA team.   
    - QA project management, including QA processes, procedures, test planning   
   activities and monitoring progress to project plans.   
    - QA project results, including on-budget, on-time and quality of projects   
   delivered.   
    - Ensuring team's adherence to QA standards and principals, including   
   corporate policies and standards.   
      
    - Responsible for timely resolution of problems and issues; for the   
   operating costs of the QA team.   
      
    Where have you been before?   
      
    - 3+ years as a QA Manager of a team in excess of 5 team members.   
    - 5+ years of proven experience as a QA lead, developing QA test strategies   
   and schedules.   
    - 5+ years of proven experience leading the QA activities through different   
   testing phases, such as functional, integration, regression, performance,   
   user acceptance and staging.   
    - must have previous experience implementing an automated and regression   
   testing strategy, leading to processes, productivity and quality   
   improvements.   
    - experience managing risk, identifying mitigation activities and working   
   with a risk based testing approach.   
      
   Experience with Mercury Quality Centre, Test Director, Quick Test   
   Professional and Load Runner; and proven experience in using these tools to   
   delivery process, productivity and quality improvements.   
      
   ·         University Degree in Computer Science or equivalent work   
   experience.   
      
   Interesting to you?  The client is anxious to hire and we have exclusive   
   rights at the moment so this is not something that fifteen other companies   
   are working on.   
      
   Salary is generous, as are benefits and such.   
      
   Please forward a copy of your cv if interested in finding out more in   
   confidence to Susan at pce@magma.ca   
      
   Regards,   
      
   Susan   
   Phipps Consulting Enterprises   
   recruiting, business strategies, startups   
   Ottawa   
   613-234-0849   
      
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