QA & Release Officer at ARM Hold Co.

Department: Information Technology

Summary

• S/he will develop, establish, enforce, and improve quality assurance and testing strategy including: test automation, performance testing, negative testing, code and coverage analysis, compatibility testing, and environment management.

Responsibilities

• Produce and execute test plans and test cases, document results, log clear and reproducible bug reports and perform exploratory testing.
• Automate manual testing where applicable.
• Develop, establish, enforce, and improve quality assurance and testing strategy including: test automation, performance testing, negative testing, code and coverage analysis, compatibility testing, and environment management.
• Contribute to the design, development and refinement of the continuous integration testing environment.
• Work with development team to define and improve the release process based on best practices.
• Support the development teams for software releases.
• Verify and validate user stories, providing input regarding requirements.
• Ensure timely testing coverage according to project schedules.
• Ensure release candidates pass quality assurance checks
• Measure and monitor progress to ensure releases are delivered on time.
• Dynamically adapt test approach to the context of each project.
• Coordinate and work directly with development teams, developers, product owners and/or external test teams to resolve problems and ensure successful releases.
• Participate in project meetings to discuss release scope and/or roadblocks.
• Work with system team to build, integrate, and deploy software releases to various platforms.
• Manage risks and resolves issues that affect release scope, schedule and quality.
• Maintain a release repository and manage key information such as build and release procedures, dependencies, and notification lists.
• Maintain release schedules and details for all software solutions, ensure it is communicated to and aligned among all key stakeholders.
• Negotiate, plan and manage all release activities.
• Conduct Release Readiness reviews, Milestone Reviews, and Release Go/NoGo reviews.
• Work with release engineers to understand impacts of branches and code merges.
• Work with other team members on the GoLive activities including the execution of the deployment plans and checklists.
• Report progress on problem resolution to project or development team.
• Perform analysis and recommend improvements in quality and release process.
• Any other adhoc duties as required or assigned

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a related field
• Minimum of 2 years of previous quality assurance, product release or project management experience and 4 years of experience in information systems operations environment in systems analysis or development.
• Familiarity with QA processes and flows.
• Deep understanding and experience in software industry, focused on software release and QA.
• Excellent interpersonal communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience working directly with global and local teams.
• Experience of DevOps tools.
• Effective management of multiple tasks, expectations and processes simultaneously.
• Adequate knowledge of software development lifecycle.
• Ability to work with cross functional work teams toward task completion.
• Sense of ownership, critical thinking, and analytical skills.