Head of Software Quality Engineering

About PEARSON

Pearson is the world’s leading learning company, with 40,000 employees in more than 80 countries working to help people of all ages to make measurable progress in their lives through learning. With revenues over €5.2 billion in 2013 we provide learning materials, technologies, assessments and services to teachers and students in order to help people everywhere aim higher and fulﬁl their true potential. We put the learner at the center of everything we do.

Pearson Lanka is a part of Pearson's core global Learning Technologies team. We build and manage some of the industry’s leading cloud based learning platforms that serve millions of students across the world. Over the years, we have built a strong Agile Development team, and we are now looking to expand over the next 12 months. The industry leading cloud-based technology platforms of Pearson help educate more than 30 million students across the globe.

The 360+ strong engineering team based out of the Colombo office works dedicatedly to service Pearson technology companies located in North America, Europe and Australia.

At Pearson, we aim to be the best company to work for in the world. It is part of our philosophy to provide benefits, profit share plans, development opportunities and a culture that beats anywhere else. If you are 'always learning', and have a passion for technology and creativity, send in your resume and join our exciting engineering culture.

Head of Software Quality Engineering

The Head of Software Quality Engineering is responsible for leading the software quality engineering effort to achieve the highest quality testing of our products and services, with emphasis on automated testing. This includes developing, promoting and maintaining best practices for testing processes to ensure early detection of software bugs in all phases of the project/development lifecycle. The Head of Software Quality Engineering will drive effective software testing techniques and strategies, as well as bring passion, focus and urgency to making the QA function best in class.

The Person

BSc in Computer Science or related discipline or equivalent professional qualification.
15+ years of Quality Engineering experience in which at least 5-7 years of experience in key leadership positions.
Proven experience in driving organizational level strategic initiatives.
Thorough knowledge on Software Quality Assurance and testing.
Should be acquainted with Test Management Tools, QA automation/performance tools and should be able to learn and adapt to new tools.
Should have excellent process/project/people management skills.
Excellent knowledge and experience in practice Agile/Scrum.

The Job

Oversee quality assurance strategies, methodologies and metrics collection, with a heavy emphasis on automation.
Drive and refine software quality assurance best practices to enhance testing capabilities, with a heavy emphasis on automation.
Identify process gaps, champion and lead initiatives to strengthen overall product quality with a heavy emphasis on automation.
Manage internal quality assurance automation team and design automation scripts to test analytical products and services, including risk-based test cases.
Responsible for driving DevOps adaptation for Quality Engineering Team.
Responsible for stakeholder management including Management, Product, Engineering and Leadership teams.

Please submit your CV using the following link http://pearsonlankavacancies.peopleshr.com/