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SQA Manager Job Description
- Own and drive test processes and partner with other disciplines to deliver high-quality product to existing and new customers
- Own, drive, review automation process within the team
- Together with development partners build and maintain a comprehensive QA Test environments
- Create and help to create projects’ schedules
- Mentor the team members, evaluate their performance and develop and monitor their career plan
- Serve as a technical and methodological subject matter expert in all regarding quality analysis, testable design and deployment
- Define, generate and refine quality related metrics for the projects
- Effectively play the role of Scrum master and handle the scrum team and provide team status to upper management
- Lead the development of a high performing team of SQA associates and to provide functional and leadership effectiveness by delivering results through others
- Ensure the team is trained to levels required by the SQA Competence program and a talent pipeline program with clear priorities to continue to drive SQA Packaging capability
- Greater than 3 years of experience leading, growing, and developing world-class engineering teams (test engineer, quality engineer, validation engineer, software engineer)
- BS, MS or PhD in EE/CE/CS, or the equivalent in experience with evidence of exceptional ability
- Engineering with a specialization in quality
- Cross-functional background
- Product or Production Experience
- Quality professional with 5+ years of hands on experience with increasing responsibility in a QA function
SQA Manager Job Description
- Work in partnership with Commercial Sourcing, Buying Operations, SRA, R&D, and Supply to identify and execute inbound material cost, quality, food/product safety, and efficiency/innovation projects
- Assures quality and consistency of Pack/Premia within the market by performing supplier site audits, ensures completion of identified corrective actions, creates material risk assessments and supplier improvement plans
- Provide leadership during Pack/Premia High impact Quality, Food Safety and legal incidents and effectively manage quality incidents to minimize business risk
- Year on Year Improvement in Supplier Quality performance to reduce Non Quality Costs in Packaging
- Develops an extensive X functions network that ensures sufficient routes of communication are developed to promote robust engagement with internal and external stakeholders so that suppliers’ risks are transparent to all and/or open opportunities to consolidate and leverage resources that creates value to the business
- Regional owner of driving PQM and PrQM implementation and drives compliance for MWC China
- Support the development and implementation of new packaging materials in response to innovation pipeline, support delivery of COGGS related projects which require Packaging developments and spec
- Leadership of an SQA IT systems and tools roadmap for Packaging, ensuring training and functional experts to the support the team are in place
- Work with SQA teams to develop schedules and communicate test plans for a release
- Create, track and report metrics on SQA execution progress against plans, and on overall code quality
- Strong hands on management skills
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering (or MCA) from reputed university
- At least 2 years of people management with a proven record of accomplishment of building and growing strong teams with more than five members
- At least 8 years of experience shipping high-quality software products and services
- Experience in all types of Software testing (Blackbox, White Box, System)
- Experience in Agile is a must
SQA Manager Job Description
- Take a position on current code quality and make recommendations on whether new features should be merged or whether issues should be resolved before more complex features are added
- Work with development team peers to keep remaining program work in front of senior management
- Ensure metrics are consistent over time and help senior management use those metrics to drive continuous improvement in the product and development/test methodologies
- Act as the agent of the SQA Director to ensure that plans are achievable, that cross-team plans are complete and that risks being taken are appropriate and documented
- Review Bug backlog and make recommendations on issues that are Must Fix and those that should be waivered prior to release
- You will drive the supply process to fulfil customer orders and deliver products in a cost efficient way to our customers on time
- Optimize the e2e process from suppliers to customers the Line Managers Supply needs to understand customer needs and act with a holistic view to bring order to cash
- Manage team(s) of SQA engineers, including people in remote and offshore locations
- Evaluate and improve QA processes
- Own high level of test automation for new and delivered iTero product
- Experience as a Scrum Master is a must
- Known quality assurance/engineering certifications – an advantage
- Great leadership skills to work effectively with the leadership team and peers within and across organisations
- Excellent organisational, interpersonal, and oral/written communication skills
- Great organisational skills and an eye for details
- Good understanding of software quality assurance processes is required
SQA Manager Job Description
- Drive close collaboration between Russian and Israel R&D centers
- Identify possible errors and areas of improvement
- Hire, train, and supervise SQA staff
- Managing the day-to-day activities associated with ensuring the completion and coordination of quality assurance tests of products and services are achieved and are according to methodologies and techniques that are established by the department
- Perform the evaluation of the potential new suppliers and to follow-up
- Define and implement supplier quality performance improvement and experience capitalisation programs
- Contribute to the Purchasing and Development scouting activities for the introduction of new technologies
- Prepare and participate - jointly with Purchasing and Business Lines - to the sourcing activities, taking the relevant decisions accordingly
- Manage supplier quality crises where escalation from Business Lines is required
- Organise and coordinate all the process audits performed within the Commodity
- Preferably Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in either Food Science, Food Engineering, Food Technology, Packaging Technology discipline or an equivalent
- A minimum of 10 years’ experience of food industry in a technical area, such as R&D, QA and production
- Strong ability to lead, engage and develop a team and line management experience
- Proficient in technical auditing related to FMCG Packaging materials (preferred)
- In depth understanding of FMCG supply chain demands
- Must have wide breadth of understanding of Packaging material conversion processes
SQA Manager Job Description
- Develop the technical competencies of the team
- Define - jointly with Purchasing - the targets for the Commodity Chemical and for the team
- Maintain and evolve formal QA policies and processes, ensuring that the team is using industry best practices
- Identify and document software faults and interact with development staff to isolate and resolve testing issues
- Implementation of the Premia Quality Management (PrQM) and Packaging Quality Management (PQM) standards at the supplier base
- Partnering in developing Premia and Packaging SQA strategies with multiple Commercial Business Teams which are aligned with overall Global Business Strategies
- Drive the deployment of Commercial battle plan OGSM for AST Premia and Packaging Business Segments at the supplier base
- Drive performance base culture within AST based on established Premia Commercial metrics and measures
- Work with suppliers to improve Premia items consistency and supplier performance
- Share and explore the external innovative thoughts/ ideas/ best practices from suppliers back to the Business (buyers, R&D and other stake holders)
- Proven track record of problem solving ability using scientific knowledge & principles
- Practitioner and developer of risk management tools & techniques
- Expert in Quality management tools & techniques QA, SPC, LEAN, HACCP
- Can perform under pressure and effectively prioritize activities for the team
- Can travel globally for supplier and internal segment meetings
- Bachelors degree in EE, CS, or equivalent experience