QA Manager

BeyondTrust ,
Manchester, Greater Manchester
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At BeyondTrust, we are revolutionising the way the world secures and manages privilege access. We are the worldwide leader in Privileged Access Management, offering the most seamless approach to preventing data breaches related to stolen credentials, misused privileges, and compromised remote access. Our extensible platform empowers organisations to easily scale privilege security as threats evolve across endpoint, server, cloud, DevOps, and network device environments. BeyondTrust unifies the industry's broadest set of privileged access capabilities with centralised management, reporting, and analytics, enabling leaders to take decisive and informed actions to defeat attackers. Our holistic platform stands out for its flexible design that simplifies integrations, enhances user productivity, and maximises IT and security investments. BeyondTrust gives organisations the visibility and control they need to reduce risk, achieve compliance objectives, and boost operational performance. We are trusted by 20,000 customers, including half of the Fortune 100, and a global partner network. Position Summary: We're looking to hire a QA Manager to join our Manchester office to establish the QA strategy and working practices, as well as lead a team of talented QA Engineers, collaborating with the Agile team in the development and maintenance of test charters, test cases, test plans and other test materials and in the execution of test plans and reporting of test results for specific product releases. What Will I be Doing? * Line management of QA staff, ensuring wellbeing, performance and ongoing development of skills and experience are managed. * Collaboration with members of your Agile team(s) to ensure software delivered by each sprint and each integration test meets both functional and non-functional requirements. * Collaboration with members of your Agile team(s) in the creation and execution of test charters, test scripts, recording outcome of tests, reporting defects and identifying opportunities for product improvement. * In collaboration with the Agile team(s), definition and execution of increasingly complex workflow and scenario testing; * Execution of exploratory testing as required to meet the test plan; * Creation and maintenance of suitable test environments for all software testing to take place. This includes the set-up of the software being tested and populating or configuring test data. This may extend to testing of interaction with devices e.g. printers, testing of interfaces and integration with other modules, products or interface test harnesses; * Perform static testing and impact assessment of Design and Change Request documentation; * Collaboration with members of your Agile team(s) to ensure all user stories have sufficient acceptance criteria defined, from which test cases will be derived; * Assist with the population and maintenance of automated testing under the direction of the test automation specialists; * Analysis of customer support issues escalated to engineering; * Timely and accurate reporting of assigned work status as required by your team and/or manager, reporting risks and issues as they arise; * Achieve agreed productivity targets in order to ensure tasks are delivered to schedule, reporting as early as possible to team or manager where delivery milestones cannot be met; * Work with the Agile team to achieve excellent levels of product quality prior to external release; * Work with the Agile team to produce any required documentation and training materials for the product(s) within your areas of responsibility; * Take ownership of planning, tracking and reporting of test executions for defined product releases for one or more modules; * Contribute to definition and continuous improvement of test related systems, processes and workflows across teams; * Collaborate across teams to share best practise and drive improvements across the department; * Be the recognised technical authority for QA across your modules; What Skills Should I have? * Professional software testing qualification e.g, ISTQB certificate in software testing - practitioner level * Minimum of 5 years commercial software testing experience * Experience of line managing QA staff. * Technical testing skills and ability to test below the GUI of applications * Experience of leading and directing small teams of QA staff * Four or more from the following list: * More than 1 year testing in agile environment * Creating SQL queries to interrogate/update a database * Understanding and experience of XML and using XML tools * Experience of working with Development teams to test using test harnesses * The ability to test the engine of the software, testing the rules, logic, and data flow below the GUI; * The ability to step through developer demo's on Developer PCs, as well as feeling confident to step through Unit tests with developers; * Testing the integration hooks between modules, applications, and systems; * Experience wi

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