Principal, Organization Transformation - QA/Testing

***We are unable to sponsor as this is a permanent full-time role***

***Hybrid, 3 days onsite, 2 days remote***

A prestigious company is looking for an Organizational Transformation Principal Quality Assurance/Testing. This principal will work as the chief of staff for the Director of Quality Assurance. The ideal candidate would have come up through quality assurance and then got into project management within quality assurance. This principal will need previous experience with java, automation, Cucumber/Selenium, etc.

Responsibilities:

• Represents MD in meetings, emails and phone calls with internal stakeholders
• Supports MD in meetings and takes responsibility for completion of action items
• Ensures timely and effective completion of initiatives of the MD
• Manages the MDs calendar and prioritizes their time and schedule
• Acts as the liaison between MD and other executives, and stakeholders to ensure consistent communication and ensuring involvement or decision-making at the proper time
• Participates with the senior management team in strategic planning, problem solving and decision-making
• Establish strong relationships with internal stakeholders to effectively understand and communicate the business rationale behind programs and initiatives, creating alignment and facilitating clear communication lines for status and scope updates for each project and the entire portfolio
• Establish clear and achievable objectives, balance competing demands for quality, scope, time and cost, and adapt specifications, plans and approaches to the different concerns and expectations of the various stakeholders
• Execute against existing project delivery policies, processes, and procedures that support efficient and effective project full-lifecycle delivery while maintaining adherence to internal project management standards.
• Lead ideation of process improvement ideas; define business cases and determine quantifiable impact/benefit of desired enhancements or issues to support prioritization of work efforts
• Make recommendations for process improvements across the company, and implement them through the delivery process if approved
• Ensure that open audit and regulatory items have been resolved with excellence in timely manner
• Lead the execution of special projects as assigned by Senior Management
• Manage projects and programs within the department budget and adhere to department goals and objectives
• Provide mentoring to staff, while remaining well-informed of projects and staying abreast of industry best practices.
• Oversee remediation efforts related to findings and observations in areas of responsibility. Ensure remediation addresses root cause, improves company residual risk and is completed in a timely manner

Qualifications:

• 8-10+ years of experience in technology, project management or business management role
• Develops and maintains constructive and cooperative cross-functional working relationships
• Proven ability/understands the Software Delivery Lifecycle, especially testing methodologies and associated best practices
• Familiarity with complex technology-focused transformative programs involving multiple and sometimes conflicting objectives with compressed timelines and multiple layers of oversight
• Proven ability to manage a project in various stages of the project life cycle from initiation through completion
• Proven ability to facilitate project alignment between business and technical teams
• Proven ability to logically break work down with upstream/downstream dependencies
• Familiarity with the Objectives and Key Results (OKR) framework
• Proficiency in using Microsoft Office products (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio)
• Experience with Agile tools such as Jira and Confluence
• Strong experience with project management tools such as Microsoft Project and SharePoint (or similar PPM tool)
• Experience with Test Management tools like SpiraTest, Jira Zephyr or ALM