Quality Assurance Project Manager

Lead technology initiatives for strategizing and owning Industry 4.0 and related business practices, with relevant experience in Industry 4.0 & IIoT

Overall responsibility of end-to-end project execution & delivery within planned schedule for multiple projects simultaneously

Project requirements understanding, dissemination into individual tasks, effort estimation and planning

Upholding customer satisfaction through value-based delivery

Interface with global customers for project status accounting, task planning and delivery

Defining and managing daily tasks and responsibilities of the project team, with an ability to lead 10-15 team members spread across multiple projects

Stakeholder management from cross-functional teams within organization and external vendors/partners

Escalation management from customers or internal stakeholders

Understand business pipeline through sales and senior management, define hiring plans and conduct interviews

Manage compliance to Quality Management System (QMS), and participate in project audits by SEPG group

Responsible for conducting annual appraisals, providing regular developmental feedback to team, and identifying skill gaps to plan internal and external training

Foster an open work-culture to instill confidence in the team, and encourage diversity of perspectives and sharing of knowledge

MUST have:

In-depth understanding of Test Methodologies, SDLC (Waterfall, Agile), STLC, Bug Life Cycle

Hands-on experience in different techniques of Black Box Testing

Hands-on experience in using various Test Management Tools and Bug Tracking Tools (e.g., TestRail, HP ALM) in test report generation

Experience in Embedded firmware, hardware testing, and mobile applications

Test planning, estimation, and scheduling

Experience & knowledge about Python Automation Framework & hands-on experience of Python Language

Hands-on in automation testing, with a proven track record of designing and implementing test automation frameworks

Strong proficiency in programming/scripting languages such as Python, Java, JavaScript, or similar

Experience with automation tools and frameworks like Selenium WebDriver, Cypress, JUnit, TestNG, etc.

Certification in automation testing (e.g. ISTQB Advanced Level - Test Automation Engineer) or ISTQB, Certified Scrum Master, or similar certifications may be advantageous.

Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices

Expertise in Python-based development

- Understanding of data structures like lists, dictionaries, tuples, and set

- Various programming techniques like list comprehension, list slicing, shallow & deep copy, eval/exec

- regex & lambda, modules & packages

- automation of remote data processing using modules like pexpect or any such tool

- Parsing input files like Excel, XML, HTML, CSV, etc (any one or more)

- OOP programming is a bonus

Hands-on experience & understanding of one or more Automation frameworks like Robot, GTest, py.test, etc.

Hands-on experience in custom test framework development is a plus

Understanding of various test metrics and reports

Working experience on Linux

Cloud application, Cloud Services & APIs, Inter-cloud and could interoperability testing

Experience with IoT, Thread, Azure, Nest, Apple Home Kit, etc.

Continuously improve the test automation processes and frameworks

Ability to analyze complex issues, identify root causes, and drive solutions.

NICE to have:

Knowledge of the following tools: Jmeter, SoupUI / Postman, Appium, QTP, Selenium

Debugging tools: Oscilloscope, Logic analyzer, GDB, PDB, Wireshark, Ixia, Spirent, Vectorcast, GTest, Monkey runner

Experience with performance testing tools like JMeter or LoadRunner.

Knowledge of BDD/TDD practices and tools like Cucumber or SpecFlow.

Understanding of cloud-based testing environments and tools.

Networking protocol, Devices, and application / L2-L3 testing with hands-on experience on tools like Ixia, Spirent, Wireshark, WireEdit

Soft Skills:

Excellent communication and Interpersonal skills to lead and motivate a team while ensuring alignment with cross-functional stakeholders.

Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

Detail-oriented with a commitment to quality and precision