MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES:
(NOT SOFTWARE TESTING)
QA service lifecycle; plan, realize, deliver, and own
· Participate with establishing standards on Design Verification and Validation (V&V) processes and tools
· Participate and provide feedback within the Risk Management reviews
· Develop knowledge of engineering hardware (Motiva Set Top Box, Communicators, (Wireless, POTS and Cellular), Alert Buttons (Wireless and Cellular)) and business functions within and across these domains (Sales, Customer Care, Product Innovation, and Quality & Regulatory) to facilitate cross-functional opportunities and best practices.
· Influences and directs engineers and project team to follow the defined procedures within the quality system
· Provide innovative leadership in acquisition or implementation of improved QA techniques and tools
· Prepare detailed schedules with Client dates for deliverables, prioritizes and monitors activities to meet such dates, make commitments on delivery
· Tracks actual progress against schedule and manages resources to meet schedule
· Use quantitative estimating techniques base on industry practice and personal experience * Uses metrics to collect quantitative project data
· Lead the project team to develop better development process on firmware and embedded software
· Develop an in-depth understanding of assigned applications, databases and infrastructure
· Contributes to product design for compliance with functional and technical specifications as well as customer satisfaction
· Applies ingenuity and determination to find the best possible options to support business needs
· Develops overall quality assurance strategy for the project and documents this in the Master Test Plan
· Creates test strategies that increase test coverage, validate scalability, failover and recovers and improves quality
· Defines and documents test cases to exercise the product to reveal potential defects
· Supports environmental testing, Standards testing and usability testing
· Maintains real time log of executed tests, results and environment
· Designs and implements automated tests using tools validated within the QA team