Total 2 job vacancies by IBM

Your Role and Responsibilities :This role has responsibility for a program or for two or more related projects for a limited duration or on a continuing basis. They provide functional program development, planning, guidance and support to ensure that business objectives are met. They influence and advise management and other professionals on strategic and tactical decisions. They analyze complex or new situations and implement solutions or develop new approaches, procedures or processes. The employee Influences the functional strategy.

Skills:

• Environment: Professional knowledge of function, business unit or country operations. Understand organizational resources, priorities, needs and policies.
• Communication/Negotiation: Guide other professionals. Adapt communications and approaches to conclude negotiations with various partners, resulting in common agreements.
• Problem Solving: Analyze complex/new situations, anticipate potential problems and future trends,
• assess opportunities, impacts, and risks. Develop and implement solutions.
• Contribution/Leadership: Leads multi-functional teams, or conducts special projects, or manages department(s) (national or international). Has vision of functional or unit mission. Influences people and organizations, including executive management, when issues are complex/difficult and require considerable diplomacy. Considerable latitude in responsibilities to define and decide on tools, processes, priorities and resources following general business unit directives. Recognized as an expert in their field. Often no precedent exists.
• Impact on Business/Scope: Accountable for projects or programs involving multi- functional, country-wide or regional teams. Responsible for overall functional program success. Activities are subject to business measurements, impact customer satisfaction, and impact functional, business unit, or country costs or expenses.

Job Responsibilities:

• Lead in defining/developing the controls, procedures (e.g. test strategies) and metrics (such as code coverage and security defect density) used during development and sustainment to ensure that the quality, security, and compliance of the domain, and products meet the Authority’s standards. Responsible for communicating and harmonizing across project/product delivery teams on the adoption of these controls, procedures, and metrics.
• Conduct independent quality assessment and on the domain products, work with the project/product delivery teams to resolve any findings/risks to ensure that product quality, security, and compliance requirements are met. Responsible to the Authority’s Governance Board for product acceptance and deployment release (e.g. clearance of vulnerability assessment report).
• Conduct independent periodic compliance checks (based on applicable standards, policies, and directives) on selected systems annually, after the system go-live, to identify risks and compliance issues, and submit a report detailing the list of findings and recommendations on follow-up actions. Track the rectification progress by the project/product delivery teams till closure.
• Drive continuous improvement efforts to strengthen IT quality, security and compliance for the delivery, of the domain products. Identify opportunities and suggest recommendations such as automation tools and methods to the Authority.
• Define overall Quality and Test framework
  • Quality Management Framework
    • Define quality control and assurance framework that encompasses governance structure, processes/procedures, tools and quality metrics in the end-to-end project lifecycle: lifecycle: planning, requirements, design (UX and architecture), code, build, integration, test, deployment, and operations.
    • Define quality control and assurance framework that ensures security and compliance of domain products meet the established standards.
    • Conduct quality assessment on domain products, and implement quality measures and controls based on the framework and assessment findings.
  • Test Quality, Control, and Framework
    • Define test strategy, management, and planning framework on the domain products to continuously improve product quality and standards conformance.
    • Testing strategy and planning should cover functional and non-functional aspects of the products.
    • Implement test quality measures and controls based on the framework.
    • Define and implement test automation framework - governance, procedures, the metrics, and controls.
• Ensure quality in end-to-end project lifecycle
  • Design quality gate
    • Work with Architecture core team for Architectural quality review
    • Work with Experience Lead for functional (UX/Product) design review
    • Work with Security Lead for Security Design review
    • Define the metrics for control and health monitoring purposes
  • Development quality gate
    • Work with the Development Manager to establish code quality metrics (e.g., code coverage), measurement and control for Source Code Quality checks.
    • Workthe ,with Security SME and Development Manager to establish application security and vulnerability metrics (e.g., security defect density), measurement, and control for Security Vulnerability Scans.
    • Ensure Security & Audit Compliance to the Authority's standards.
    • Work with product team to continuously improve on development quality, such as squad velocity, impediments management, technical debt, and productivity.
    • Establish agile metrics, control measures, and framework to improve the development team's 'shift left' practice on DSO (DevSecOps) platform
    • Work with Development Manager to establish Peer reviews practice.
  • Test quality gate
    • Conduct domain product testing results validation
    • Conduct SIT/UAT/Performance/Chaos/VAPT (Vulnerabilities Assessment and Penetration Test) defect log review and develop continuous improvement plan and control measures.
    • Conduct high severity defect review, root cause analysis and develop/execute continuous improvement plan and control measures.
  • Deployment quality gate
    • Conduct deployment health monitoring metrics (e.g., deployment schedule variance, impediments resolution rate) review.
    • Develop and execute continuous improvement plan and control measures on deployment activities such as Production Readiness Assessment.
    • Define quality metrics and control measures around release management, change control management, and incident management.
    • Define post-go-live metrics (e.g., defect escape rate, NPS, application usage) to monitor the health of the application.

Preferred Experience

• 8-10 years of experience as a quality assurance lead, establishing and implementing quality management framework, controls and testing quality
• 5 years of experience as a test lead establishing and executing tests, strategies, management, and plan.
• Experience with quality assurance and management processes in end-to-end project lifecycle: planning, requirements, design, code, build, integration, test, deployment, and operations.
• Familiar with quality metrics such as UX Metrics, User Satisfaction score / NPS, Technical debt, Architecture conformance/exception, Architecture review detected/close cycles, Security Vulnerability issues, Code Quality percent score, Defect density, Defect detected / closed, Time from committing to deploy, Change fail rate, Mean time to resolution / recover, and Incident automation.
• Experience in implementing quality management in an Agile delivery environment.
• Experience in implementing IT quality, security and compliance.
• Familiar with development in the DSO (DevSecOps) environment.