QA Test Manager

About this Position:

Job Title: QA Test Manager

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Advise the team on the vendor's strategic approach to testing.

• Analyze system requirements and ensure the test plans and test data meet those customer needs.

• Attend meetings, check-ins, Agile sprints, workgroups, and deep dive discussions on the system and deployment.

• Develop a traceability matrix that details that a specific test scenario/test script addresses all system requirements.

• Establish and ensure the use of defect tracking throughout the lifecycle of the project so that defects can be effectively tracked, evaluated, prioritized, assigned, and documented.

• Provide a monthly SQA assessment report on the strategic and tactical level work before, during, and after the system configuration, testing, staging, and deployment.

• Attend project meetings, workgroups, and other meeting types that require IT SQA subject matter expertise.

• Develop documentation, notes, diagrams, and other applicable documentation that captures system quality assurance/testing recommendations, issues, concerns, dependencies, and constraints outlined during meetings, testing phases, and workgroups.

• Provide recommendations and/or risks associated with the configuration of the system.

• Clearly outline the actions to be taken in recommendations, including additional investigation or assessment needed, responsible person(s), and completion date.

• Coordinate between business and technical team members.

• Ensure high-level system requirements are validated and accepted by Department.

• Provide close-out documentation, including lessons learned, and archive testing documentation for client's use.

• Understand client's test environments (development, test, stage, and deployment).

• Understand client's Information System, the system configured to replace the system.

• Provide weekly status updates on the progress of SQA.

• Provide monthly reports to the Project Manager.