Riviera Partners
Los Angeles Area
Director/Manager Software Quality Assurance

The selected Director of Quality Assurance will be responsible for developing a QA team and infrastructure that will support the overall goal of delivering industrial strength, high quality commercial software to our customers. It will be imperative the QA team work collaboratively with engineering to improve the overall development process. The opportunity is for a seasoned QA Manager to focus the efforts of the QA team and develop the necessary systems and procedures to give Senior Management an accurate assessment of the risk and quality of the product.

These objectives must be delivered in a cutting edge, extreme programming and iterative development environment for multiple customers across multiple platforms.

Primary Responsibilities
Verify that software applications are coded to specification and delivered in a high quality state to our customers

Create and execute test cases with test data and document test results for all testing phases (functional, integration, regression and system testing)

Conduct test case reviews with Software/Application Engineers and IT Managers

Conduct test plan reviews

Represent QA in project team meetings and communicate results and risks

Work with software/application engineers, QA testers and technical writers as needed to ensure quality and the successful rollout of new applications or features

Create and execute automated test scripts as needed

Mentor and train QA testers and or software developers in writing test cases and accomplishing test objectives

Foster a collaborative work environment encompassing all areas of the development team

Identify improvement to the QA process and facilitate the implementation

Identify and select tools and techniques which will enhance QA effectiveness

Target Profile
Had successfully lead QA efforts for commercial releases of enterprise class applications in early stage companies as well as large corporate development shops

Worked in a development environment that utilized the iterative software development life-cycle

Has built a comprehensive QA infrastructure to support internal software development and engineering as well as customer specific implementations

Management experience with test engineering, QA methods, standards, best practices, policies, processes and procedures, project control and risk assessment management

Managed the trade-offs/issues between shipping the product on time versus quality and the potential impact on the support and engineering teams

Strong yet diplomatic personality: Developed a collaborative/non-adversarial relationship with engineering.

Focused on resolving problems or creating an environment of problem prevention

Gets involved in the engineering process, providing feedback to develop a cleaner, higher quality product

Position Requirements
Experience testing object-oriented, Java, component-based software architectures

Hands on experience with and knowledge of XML and J2EE architecture (ability to read XML and Java Script)

Preferred experience using UML (Unified Modeling Language) for specifying, visualizing, constructing, and documenting the artifacts of software systems.

Evaluated, selected and implemented automated testing tools. Developed automated testing scripts

Established source code control and build management procedures and systems

Strong project management skills

Conducted white and black box testing

Built test plans, schedules and test harnesses from the ground up

Set up and ran performance test teams

Develop an understanding of the overall interdependencies of the application to asses risk

Michael A. Morell
Partner
michael@rivierapartners.net
www.rivierapartners.net
310.209.1100