Lead Tester
Advanced World Systems, Inc.
- Cebu City, PhilippinesCebu City, Central Visayas, PhilippinesCebu CityCentral VisayasPhilippinesPhilippines
- Full timeFULL_TIME
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Job Description
- Establish and evolve formal QA processes, ensuring that the team is using industry-accepted best practices.
- Oversee all aspects of quality assurance including establishing metrics, applying industry best practices, and developing new tools and processes to ensure quality goals are met.
- Act as the final decision maker for quality-related escalations. Must be able to evaluate risk, customer impact, likelihood of occurrence and make the necessary decisions to ensure the right tradeoffs are made between schedule and quality.
- Act as a key point of contact for all QA aspect of releases, providing QA services and coordinating QA resources internally and externally.
- Lead and mentor QA team members.
- Diagnose defects and track them from discovery to resolution.
- Partner with engineering teams to stay informed of new technologies being introduced and to ensure that system components are designed for testability.
- Respond to all requests from team members in a timely professional manner.
- This position will play a primary role in playing (including definition), implementing, leading, and executing all aspects of Quality Assurance as it relates to product development. The role requires hands-on QA expertise, ability to take initiative and develop and evolve QA processes.
- The right candidate will be able to analyze a deliverable set to determine what to test, the priority of those tests and the best way to test.
Minimum Qualifications
You must have/be:
- At least 5 years experience in the software quality field including prior hands-on quality engineering experience, Software/Firmware Development experience definitely a plus.
- Ability to proactively interact and gather necessary technical information from development and other cross-functional team members to understand technical aspects as necessary to make technically sound recommendations.
- Demonstrated experience in developing and executing test cases, scripts, plans and procedures to support various development methodologies.
- Familiarity with entire software development life cycle and test cycles (Unit, Regression, Functional, Systems, Stress & Scale, Smoke & Sanity).
- Understanding of QA best practices, methodologies, and tools to design, implement, automate, and document processes and test-related information.
- Adept at understanding and implementing a metrics-driven approach and closed-loop feedback to improve deliverables and improve predictability and reliability of releases.
- Detailed and effective written communication skills for documenting features testers and bugs found.
- Highly organized, detail-oriented, extremely responsive, and able to prioritize a large number of tasks.
- Self-motivated, work well independently and with others.
Perks and Benefits
- Special Leave Benefits for Women
- Single Parent Leave
- Housing
- Paid Holidays
- Medical / Health Insurance
- Paid Sick Leave
- Flexitime
- Performance Bonus
- Paid Bereavement/Family Leave
- Recruitment / Signing Bonus
- Life Insurance
- Paid Vacation Leave
- Transportation Allowances
- Maternity & Paternity Leave
Jobs Summary
- Job Level
- Mid-Senior Level / Manager
- Job Category
- IT and Software
- Educational Requirement
- Bachelor's degree graduate
- Recruiter response to application
- Sometimes
- Office Address
- Cebu City, Central Visayas, Philippines
About Advanced World Systems, Inc.
Established in 1993 as an Offshore Research and Development arm of a joint venture between IBM Japan and Toshiba TEC, we later on became an independent company, establishing our head office in Japan.
With more than 20 years in the business operating in the Philippines, Japan, and China, we are the strategic partner of choice by renowned companies like IBM Japan, Ltd., Lenovo, Kyocera, Sumitomo Heavy Industries, and Toshiba-TEC Corporation.
Our teams of engineers are both technical experts and bi-lingual (English and Japanese), providing software development solutions and services.