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JOB DESCRIPTION
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Position: Quality Assurance
Location: San Diego, California, US
Type: Permanent F/T
Closing Date: 02/27/2005
Job Title: QA Manager
Dept: Automation & Performance
Location: San Diego, CA
Websense Inc. (NASDAQ: WBSN), the world’s leading provider of employee
Internet management solutions, enables organizations to optimize employee use
of computing resources and mitigate new threats related to Internet use
including instant messaging, peer-to-peer, and spyware. By providing usage
policy enforcement at the Internet gateway, on the network and at the desktop,
Websense Enterprise enhances productivity and security, optimizes the use of IT
resources and mitigates legal liability for our customers. Websense serves more
than 20,600 customers worldwide, representing 16.4 million seats. For more
information, visit http://www.websense.com
Summary:
The QA Manager (Automation & Performance) is responsible for managing all
activities of a QA team engaged in but not limited to test planning, execution,
functional test automation, and performance testing. In this role, you will
provide leadership, direction, expertise, and hands-on assistance to a team of
highly technical QA engineers responsible for ensuring the quality of the
company’s enterprise applications. As a member of the QA management team,
you will work with a variety of groups across multiple disciplines to
streamline, integrate, and continuously improve the effectiveness of the QA
organization. As a manager you will be responsible for administrating policies
for employee development, performance planning and reviews, counseling, and
evaluations.
Essential Functions:
• Develop and execute a functional test automation strategy that delivers
substantial ROI and measurable increases in QA efficiency.
• Create and execute performance, stress, and benchmarking test
strategies that ensure our products meet or exceed performance targets.
• Continuously streamline and improve the testing life cycle to ensure
test planning, execution, and reporting are effective, agile, and coordinated.
• Work closely with development, product management, documentation, and
technical support to ensure that the quality objectives of all projects are met
within schedule constraints.
• Clearly communicate QA results, concerns, and project status to the
engineering management team and other stakeholders in a timely manner.
• Proactively manage the performance of your team members through
coaching, training, rewarding strong performance, and addressing performance
issues directly and with fairness if/when they arise.
• This position may manage software engineers working within the Quality
Assurance department.
JOB REQUIREMENTS
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Qualifications:
• Strong QA methodology, process, and technical leadership.
• Past experience with and the ability to lead a highly technical team
leveraging advanced QA tools and techniques.
• Track record of delivering measurable return on investment (ROI) in the
area of functional test automation in addition to hands-on experience with the
associated testing tools (preferably Segue SilkTest)
• Significant hands-on experience in executing performance and benchmark
testing using tools such as Mercury LoadRunner or Segue SilkPerformer.
• Recent hands-on skills in software development.
• Solid understanding of software programming best practices and
principles including data structures, object-oriented design, exception
handling, modularity and reuse.
• Must excel in a fast-paced, agile environment where critical thinking
and strong problem solving skills are required for success.
• Innovative thinker who is positive, proactive, and readily embraces
change.
Technology:
Must have excellent understanding of many technologies relevant to our product
lines, including:
• Networking technologies: TCP/IP networking concepts and applications,
including HTTP and other internet protocols, as well as socket level
programming.
• Major User Interface technologies: html, dhtml, JavaScript, php, flash
“MX”.
• XML technologies: XML, XPath, XSLT, XML Schema, CSS and XSL FO.
• Programming Languages: C/C++, Java, Perl, C#, SQL
Experience:
• Typically at least 6 years experience in the software industry
• BA/BS in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent experience.
CONTACT
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To be considered for this position, please e-mail your resume to:
jobs@websense.com, subject = QA Mgr, Automation and Performance
Competitive benefits package. EOE.
Websense, Inc.
jobs@websense.com
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