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IT Quality Assurance - Manager LOC : Dallas, TX


2015-09-02 06:31:44
Job Type: Full Time only
Budget $: 100,000 - 200,000

DESCRIPTION -IT Manager - Quality Assurance JOB DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES General Responsibilities: (10%) â?¢ Working with project leaders during the project planning phases to assure that planned QA activities include the System/Integration Test (verification) and UAT (validation) phases of the project life cycle. â?¢ Monitoring the testing efforts to assure that planned test schedules are kept and that test reports are maintained to reflect an accurate progression of the testing activities. â?¢ Consulting with the project team to ensure that quality control testing follows approved test procedures and is conducted using appropriate test tools. â?¢ Identifying software anomalies and tracking them to resolution. Planning & Analysis: (10%) â?¢ Guiding the project team to assure that quality procedures are planned into the project execution phases. â?¢ Reviewing the project plan to verify that adequate time and resources are allocated to perform QA and QC processes. â?¢ Working with IT project teams and business users to assess and understand business requirements. â?¢ Assessing the testing needed to validate business requirements. â?¢ Writing and maintaining the requirements traceability to test cases to ensure adequate coverage. â?¢ Interfacing with IT Security to ensure that QA planning includes security testing. â?¢ Facilitating the preparation of testing strategies, test plans, and test cases. â?¢ Developing clear and concise test cases and expected result descriptions. â?¢ Assessing whether or not third-partiesâ?? QC results meets expected QA standards. Testing & User Acceptance: (80%) â?¢ Partnering with Development, Systems, Business and Customer support associates to ensure that the project deliverables meet functional and operational needs of the business. â?¢ Participating in Software Configuration Management (e.g., configuration baselines, configuration change requests, and change control records) for test environments. â?¢ Facilitating testing with IT project teams. â?¢ Performing test cases as required. â?¢ Evaluating test results (e.g., requirements traceability matrix, test reports). â?¢ Managing defects discovered during testing activities and validating the fixes. â?¢ Conducting QA process and product assessments using objective criteria. â?¢ Coordinating and communicating defects discovered during testing to the project team. â?¢ Identifying and documenting noncompliance, observations, and risks from all software QA-related activities. â?¢ Escalating noncompliance to IT management. â?¢ Identifying lessons learned that will improve processes for future projects. â?¢ Training IT associates to apply QA and QC principles to daily tasks.
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