JOB DESCRIPTION:
Have 15+ years' experience working as a software project manager or test manager with experience leading complex cross-functional projects in a technology company and preferably, a degree in engineering.
Worked closely with software engineers, QA engineers, product managers and other engineering teams to get high-quality products and features through the software project lifecycle (build, test and release on time).
Experience influencing senior management and setting expectations for major cross-functional initiatives.
Identify and implement test process design and re-engineering to achieve both incremental and transformational business impact.
Assess project risks and identify appropriate mitigation strategies.
Comfortable talking about technical matters with businesspeople and business matters with technical people.
Successful at getting buy-in for your ideas with a demonstrated affinity for metrics.
Respectful and influential; have the ability to push back when needed and can approach work rationally.
Have a bias for action and work comfortably with ambiguity.
Analyze information to find trends or diagnose problem areas.
Experience defining and reporting on operational metrics and generating problem statements that are supported by data.
Ability to define workflows and processes.
Develop innovative solutions and collaborate with global counterparts and cross-functional teams to implement them.
Capable of elicit high-level requirements from both business and technical stakeholders, and can translate those into a detailed, prioritized backlog of work actionable by systems engineers and software developers.
Have executed corporate-wide initiatives: defined project plans, coordinated resources, managed implementation activities, and developed all processes associated with program rollout and ongoing support.
Have led multiple technical programs for a technology company, leading cross-functional teams to take products to market, ensuring success metrics are informing future efforts, and fine tuning the program as needed.
Have significant agile/lean experience in organizations leveraging lean/agile methodologies and in-depth experience with specific agile methodologies such as Scrum,