Ca, Inc. Work Values

Daily Duties at Ca, Inc.:

Led 10 software QA engineers across U.S. and in the UK. Also managed task and project assignments for team of 20 software QA engineers based in Hyderabad, India. Teamed closely with senior management providing assessments of status of projects. Facilitated goal setting and performance management of direct staff. Approved expenses and capital expenditures, and oversaw hiring and firing of staff. Held final signoff authority for software releases within group before delivery to customer or manufacturing to ensure release met product and quality requirements. Established quality goals for new development and maintenance software releases. Developed QA Plans for software releases, including delegating features and testing areas to staff to create test plans and test cases. Prioritized all software programs by producing risk factor assessments and assigning issues to software development teams. Led change control process, tracking, and validation of new issues created by QA engineers in U.S. and India. Mentored senior QA Engineers on project management skills by assigning them ownership of maintenance and other special projects. Managed all QA project schedules and interfaced with 5 development teams to coordinate timelines for feature delivery with resource availability of QA staff members. Oversaw requirements analysis sessions with QA engineers and developers to extract functional and user requirements from feature specifications prior to start of coding on those features. Reported test results for all QA team activities in daily summaries for QA staff; weekly summaries for development staff; and monthly summaries for senior management. Conducted trending for various development areas and features and identified high risk areas requiring special attention.

What they like about Ca, Inc.:

You give high priority to hiring firms with prestige. Market reputation and prestige of a firm may be determined through on-line research, and conversations with individuals working in your target industry. Note that firms "in the public eye" receive a great deal more critical publicity and attention than those operating with more anonymity. So as you assess your employment opportunities, be sure to seek out the positive aspects of the firm's reputation in addition to noting negative publicity the company may have received.

Tags

PMP, QA, Project Management, .NET, ETRM, Harvest, Java, Web Development, Offshore, Leadership, Testing, NET, Project, Management, VSTS, C#, QuickTest Professional, QTP, Quality Center, Scrum, Agile, Microsoft Project, MSP, PMI, Methodology

Skills

P&L responsibilities, Presentation, Ecommerce Strategy and digital marketing channels optimization - SEO, SEM, email, affiliates - for high-profile accounts., Technology Solutions, Sales Support, Software Implementation, Requirements Analysis & Specification, Leadership

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