US Tech - Senior Manager - Quality Engineering

Specialty/Competency: Quality Engineering

Industry/Sector: Not Applicable

Time Type: Full time

Travel Requirements: Up to 20%

A career in Products and Technology is an opportunity to bring PwC's strategy to life by driving products and technology into everything we deliver. Our clients expect us to bring the right people and the right technology to solve their biggest problems; Products and Technology is here to help PwC meet that challenge and accelerate the growth of our business. We have skilled technologists, data scientists, product managers and business strategists who are using technology to accelerate change. Our team provides objective evaluation about the quality of software, validation of requirements, compliance with assurance standards, and risk of failure. These roles also provide frameworks, methodologies, and tools to support all aspects of quality assurance for technology products, software, and infrastructure.

To really stand out and make us fit for the future in a constantly changing world, each and every one of us at PwC needs to be a purpose-led and values-driven leader at every level. To help us achieve this we have the PwC Professional; our global leadership development framework. It gives us a single set of expectations across our lines, geographies and career paths, and provides transparency on the skills we need as individuals to be successful and progress in our careers, now and in the future.

Responsibilities

As a Senior Manager, you'll work as part of a team of problem solvers, helping to solve complex business issues from strategy to execution. PwC Professional skills and responsibilities for this management level include but are not limited to:

• Encourage everyone to have a voice and invite opinion from all, including quieter members of the team.
• Deal effectively with ambiguous and unstructured problems and situations.
• Initiate open and candid coaching conversations at all levels.
• Move easily between big picture thinking and managing relevant detail.
• Anticipate stakeholder needs, and develop and discuss potential solutions, even before the stakeholder realises they are required.
• Contribute technical knowledge in area of specialism.
• Contribute to an environment where people and technology thrive together to accomplish more than they could apart.
• Navigate the complexities of cross-border and/or diverse teams and engagements.
• Initiate and lead open conversations with teams, clients and stakeholders to build trust.
• Uphold the firm's code of ethics and business conduct.
  
  

Basic Qualifications

Job Requirements and Preferences:

Minimum Degree Required

Bachelor Degree

Minimum Years Of Experience

6 year(s) of relevant experience in progressive roles managing IT quality assurance and control within software/systems development processes.

Preferred Qualifications

Preferred Fields of Study:

Information Technology, Computer Systems Analysis, Management Information Systems

Additional Educational Preferences

Bachelor's degree or in lieu of a degree, demonstrating, in addition to the minimum years of experience required for the role, three years of specialized training and/or progressively responsible work experience in technology for each missing year of college-level training.

Certification(s) Preferred

Foundations Certification

Preferred Knowledge/Skills

Demonstrates intimate abilities and/or a proven record of success as a team leader in test methodologies and integration of business applications to achieve an efficient testing effort that delivers a quality system to its customers including the following areas:

• Understanding requirements from a business perspective to be validated through testing and assessing them in the context of an Agile/Scrum delivery model;
• Understanding of the SDLC activities expected to deliver custom developed and packaged applications;
• Demonstrating experience in Agile practices, DevOps, CI/CD pipeline, Continuous testing, Software Quality Principles, Advanced Test Methodologies, Best Practices and Procedures;
• Understanding Quality Metrics, KPIs, Data Visualization, Data Analytics and its impact on IT organizations, Testing Maturity Models and how they are applied to increase maturity of quality and IT organization, to enable continuous improvement;
• Demonstrating expertise with test management tools like qTest, Azure DevOps, HP ALM;
• Demonstrating expertise in vendor management;
• Performing Data Mining, predictive modeling techniques and using data to drive business outcomes and decisions;
• Taking complex data and making it more accessible, understandable and usable for leaders to derive insights;
• Understanding conventional and cloud testing strategies;
• Demonstrates intimate-level abilities and/or a proven record of success managing efforts with identifying and addressing client needs;
• Delivering change management strategies and IT transformation initiatives along with considerable operational experience in applying them;
• Working in a global organization with an understanding of cross cultural communication styles.
• Managing Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and the development of dashboard reporting, usage statistics, administrator actions and other service-relevant data;
• Implementing and directing the delivery of work in the areas of Enterprise Architecture, PMO, Communications and Change Management and Portfolio & Investment Management;
• Identifying business issues and liaising with relevant IT leaders to maintain alignment between the IT initiatives and the current and future direction of the firm;
• Building effective relationships with key stakeholders;
• Communicating agreed Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and conducting investigations or analysis on variations from expected performance levels;
• Seeking opportunities for continuous improvement within role, processes, team and the IT organization as a whole;
• Driving continuous service improvements for the customer and end user experience;
• Influencing others internally and externally through both direct and indirect reports;
• Displaying customer focus background with commercial awareness and strategic thinking capability;
• Working on tasks that involve analysis and in-depth evaluation of multiple factors;
• Managing initiatives to analyze and identify improvement opportunities with internal and external stakeholders;
• Collaborating with Business and IT partners to ensure quality delivery of technology solutions;
• Facilitating and delivering organization wide IT transformation efforts;
• Developing deep-rooted expertise in providing long term support;
• Developing Service Level Agreements and Standardizations;
• Developing action plans to improve overall quality, maturity and capabilities to measure;
• Managing adoption of process and governance action plans;
• Creating overall strategy, plans, detailed activity breakdown;
• Building roadmaps and schedules ensuring delivery timelines are met; and,
• Managing the introduction of change in process by collaborating with stakeholders.
  
  

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