Company:
Autodesk
Employment Type:
Permanent
Location:
California
Skills Required:
Position Summary
This is an exciting
and challenging opportunity to manage a high performing and technically progressive testing team responsible for assuring the
high quality of Autodesk's IT Enterprise Applications.
As an IT QA Manager reporting to the Senior Manager of IT QA,
and a member of our IT Quality Assurance management team, you will be responsible for assuring the high-quality of all our
SAP Enterprise Applications, Interfaces and associated integrated systems (SAP, Siebel, Reporting and Web
Applications).
Our IT Quality Assurance Management team works closely with our Business Partners, Software
Development and Project Management teams to fully understand the proposed technical implementation plans, and define the
scope and methodology of the testing techniques for each project. You will work with your team to define testing strategy,
and ensure the on-time execution of both manual and automated testing.
As the ideal managerial candidate, you will
have a successful track record of leading high performing teams to deliver Enterprise Applications in a fast-paced
development environment. This involves understanding business requirements, performing gap analysis, and managing a testing
team to create test plans, create and execute test scripts, document test results, and work with business analysts and
developers to resolve test failures. Duties also include managing QA deliverables, coaching and developing team members, and
negotiating with other functional groups in the organization. You will be empowered to deliver quality and increase your
technical and management skills every day through challenging and rewarding assignments.
Interested? Keep
reading…
Responsibilities
* Assure your team's ability to test and deliver high-quality and
successful implementations of our IT Enterprise Applications and associated systems.
Manage a team of high performing
professionals:
* Foster open, honest and professional communication among your team and colleagues.
*
Engage staff and motivate the team to produce results. Actively coach, mentor and challenge your team members, provide
constructive feedback and suggestions for improvement.
* Ensure the professional development of staff,
balancing professional interests and Autodesk IT skill requirements. Ensure staff is trained, mentored and developed as new
technology is planned and introduced.
* Increase your team's technology expertise, continually seek out and
learn new quality testing techniques, while you work with your team to refine the existing ones.
* Provide mid
and year end performance reviews; make salary, bonus, and promotion recommendations in collaboration with IT QA
Management.
* Develop and deliver on yearly IT QA departmental goals, align these goals with overall IT
strategies and goals.
Collaborate with your QA team, colleagues, internal and external partners to estimate, create
and track projects from initial ideas to successful application deployment:
* Participate in all aspects of
design reviews, test and project plans, resource estimates, and implementation schedules.
* Develop and refine
high-level test strategies in collaboration with other Quality Assurance team members and managers, Project Managers and
Software Developers.
* Serve as a point of escalation for conflicts that cannot be resolved directly by team
members, project managers, etc., as well as post production and customer issues.
Create and drive solid QA process
improvements, and continually refine existing process and procedures to guarantee industry rigor and best practices are
employed by IT QA:
* Publish project metric reports for defect analysis, testing status and launch
readiness.
* Monitor your team's performance and deliverables against targets to ensure all project
commitments are met.
Plan and Execute high-quality, on-time, within-budget software launches of Autodesk's SAP
Enterprise Applications and associated systems:
* Guide your team in the planning, documenting, maintaining,
and executing black-box and gray-box manual and automated testing.
* Accurately forecast team resource
requirements and expenses.
* Manage contractor procurement to augment staff and skills where needed.
*
Partner with Project Management and Development teams to ensure project commitments are met, and monitor your team's
performance against targets.
* Identify and raise issues and risks impeding the progress on projects or
effectiveness of the key processes in application development. Propose solution, and take action to drive timely resolution
of issues and challenges.
* Commit yourself and your team to delivering the highest-quality Enterprise
Applications possible to our Business Partners and customers.
Desired Knowledge/Skills
* Proven
team leadership and management skills.
* Strong customer focus.
* Proven record of building high
performing teams.
* Strong organizational, interpersonal and communication skills.
* Attention to
detail, strong presentation and negotiation skills.
* Strong teamwork, leadership, negotiation and
collaboration skills.
* Project resource forecasting, hiring and expense estimation skills.
*
Understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle and Testing Methodologies.
* Knowledge of exploratory and
structured testing strategies.
* Expertise with Software Quality Metrics and Reporting.
* Proven
track record with hiring and managing outsourced testing activities.
* Proven history of thriving in a fast-
paced and often ambiguous environment.
Candidate Requirements
* BA/BS in Computer Science or
related Engineering field.
* 3-5 years management experience in a structured QA environment testing IT
Enterprise Applications and systems with an emphasis on SAP B2B, EDI, Interfaces, SD, MM, and FI.
* Experience
with Business Application processing in the areas of Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Resource Planning
(ERP), Purchasing, Inventory Control, Sales and Distribution (SD) and Accounting as implemented in SAP.
*
Experience with testing SAP interfaces to external and internal systems such as EDI, ALE, web interfaces, and connectors such
as Tibco and See Beyond.
* Experience with automated testing tools and strategies, especially Mercury
Interactive tools such as TestDirector and WinRunner.
* Strong analytical skills, ability to manage the
transformation of business requirements into test strategies, test plans, test scenarios, and test scripts.
*
Skilled in managing multiple and often conflicting priorities. Proven experience in implementing cross functional systems
initiatives.
* Demonstrate unwavering commitment to deliver high-quality Enterprise Applications to our
internal and external customers.
How
to apply:
Email resume in Word format to : Jeremy Langhans; Autodesk -
jeremy.langhans@autodesk.com
REFERRAL NO.: SAPPROF-AUTODESK-SAP-
QAMGR