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Quality Assurance Manager Bazaarvoice
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About Bazaarvoice:Bazaarvoice, a leading social software company, helps clients bring the voice of the customer to the center of business strategy. With nearly 2,000 clients globally, including over half of the Internet Retailer 500 list of the world?s largest retailers, over 20 percent of the Fortune 500, and over one-third of the Fortune 100 brands, Bazaarvoice helps clients like Best Buy, Costco, Dell, Macy's, P&G, Panasonic, QVC, Travelocity, and USAA to create social outlets on their brand websites and Facebook pages where customers can engage in conversations. These conversations can be syndicated across Bazaarvoice?s global network of client websites and mobile devices, making the user-generated content that digital consumers trust accessible at multiple points of purchase. Through Bazaarvoice, brands can also connect directly with consumers on retail sites to answer questions and respond to reviews written about their products. The Bazaarvoice technology platform allows clients to leverage social data derived from online word of mouth to increase sales, acquire new customers, improve marketing effectiveness, enhance consumer engagement across channels, increase success of new product launches, improve existing products and services, effectively scale customer support, and decrease product returns. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, Bazaarvoice has offices in Amsterdam, London, Munich, New York, Paris, San Francisco, Stockholm, and Sydney. For more information, visit www.bazaarvoice.com, read the blog at www.bazaarvoice.com/blog, and follow on Twitter at www.twitter.com/bazaarvoice
Who We Want:
This is a hands-on highly technical management role responsible for the leadership of a software quality assurance team. The QA Engineers at Bazaarvoice are matrixed to the development teams they support and so the ideal candidate must have experience leading a matrixed team. The ideal candidate will also have experience with the following:
Developing quality standards for company products
Overseeing the development and execution of software test plans and the analysis of test results involving more than one QA team in an Agile development environment
Technical consulting on automation issues, frameworks, tools and processes. Requires hands on experience with Java and/or a technical scripting language
Identifying metrics that convey the state of product quality and reporting on those metrics
Selecting, developing and evaluating personnel to ensure the efficient operation of the QA team
Developing leaders and being a thought leader in the area of quality assurance
Expert knowledge of quality assurance and testing best practices
Developing budgets and managing activities of a department, work group and/or project
Full HR responsibility for direct reports
This individual will manage Agile QA Engineers responsible for the following activities:
Writing, analyzing & executing test cases
Maintaining documentation of test results
Analyzing test results to ensure functionality performs as designed and recommending corrective action in the cases where it doesn?t
Test reporting
Automating test cases
Regression & integration testing
Skills and Experience Necessary for the Role:
EDUCATION: Bachelor's degree or equivalent.
EXPERIENCE: Minimum of 5 years related QA Engineering experience. Minimum 3 years prior management/supervisory experience. Experience working on an Agile development team and a thorough understanding of Agile development principals required. Hands on experience using automation tools such Selenium required. Experience developing automation frameworks using TestNG or Java desired. Excellent communication skills, written and verbal; ability to lead and direct multiple projects simultaneously; ability to delegate work to subordinate employees; proven leadership ability.
| Location: | 3900 N. Capital of Texas Hwy Suite 300 Austin, TX 78746 United States |
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Bazaarvoice
Bazaarvoice, one of Austin's leading, venture-backed Web startups that serves domestic and international Fortune 500 brands with word of mouth online technology and services. We have experienced explosive growth with featured articles in the New York Times, AdAge, Fortune Magazine, and we are the only Texas-based startup to make the Red Herring 100 North America and Global list.Investors: Austin Ventures, Battery Ventures, First Round Capital
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| Web Site: | www.bazaarvoice.com |
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| Headquarters: | 3900 N. Capital of Texas Hwy Suite 300 Austin, TX 78746 United States |
| Employees: | >100 |
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| Industry: | Software |
| About Bazaarvoice Bazaarvoice is a SaaS company that brings the power of social commerce to the world's best brands. Social commerce happens when you connect customers to one another in ways which drive measurable results to your business. Bazaarvoice helps all types of businesses capture, display, share, and analyze customer conversations online. Our combination of technology and personalized services help brands build online communities who help drive measurable business goals. We make it easy for our clients to let their customers share opinions, knowledge, and experiences. Bazaarvoice is an open, creative and collaborative culture, where passion and excellence rule. You have the opportunity to work within a world-class organization bringing cutting-edge interfaces and functionality to market on leading eCommerce sites. Great ideas can come from anywhere. We're looking for imaginative people who want to be a part of the conversation and have an impact on the future of social commerce. |
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