Quality Manager

Description

Job Summary: We are seeking a Quality Manager with experience in QA roles to transform the engineering culture, ensuring consistency and evolution of quality practices. Key Highlights: 1. Technical and personal challenges for continuous growth 2. A fresh, collaborative, and continuous improvement culture 3. Programs to empower talent and care for well-being Are you **looking for new challenges** and a place where you can enjoy a close-knit environment while continuously **learning**? Welcome to a team with a clear purpose: **"TRANSFORMING** people's lives by being the most trusted **TECHNOLOGICAL** partner"! ### **Get ready and join this adventure!** **What will you find?** --------------------- * **Technical** and personal challenges that will keep you growing constantly. * A connected team focused on **your physical and mental well-being**. * A **continuous improvement culture**, fresh and collaborative, with learning opportunities and people ready to support you. * **KaizenHub**, a program designed to enhance your talents, offering **feedback**, mentoring, and coaching through **Sofka U**. It will be both a challenge and a game! * **Programs such as Happy Kaizen and WeSofka** that care for your physical and emotional well-being. **What are we looking for?** ------------------ A **Quality Manager** with a minimum of **5 years** of **experience in QA roles** and software quality assurance, at a level equivalent to a junior Test Manager. The ideal candidate demonstrates strong core competencies in defining, adopting, and governing quality models; assessing maturity; and managing testing. If you can guide multiple teams toward technical excellence and share the AI\-First philosophy, this challenge is for you. This is a unique opportunity to transform the organization’s engineering culture. Your role will be pivotal in safeguarding the guidelines that ensure consistency and evolution of quality practices, guaranteeing direct impact on the success of large-scale projects. ### **Responsibilities** * Safeguard and evolve the quality model applicable to each assigned project. * Define and measure organizational indicators for maturity and adoption of quality practices. * Drive cross-functional continuous improvement of the quality process by applying data-driven improvement techniques. * Lead quality onboarding for new projects, ensuring the team understands and adopts the model, tools, and guidelines. * Support active projects in progressively adopting the model and define sustainable plans to close adoption gaps. * Ensure consistency of quality practices across all projects under your scope to deliver a homogeneous service. * Facilitate removal of adoption impediments by coordinating solutions with organizational and client stakeholders. * Promote collective ownership of quality as a cross-cutting, integrated principle within the development process. ### **Requirements** * Education: Degree in Systems Engineering, Software Engineering, or related fields. * Mandatory certification: ISTQB Foundation Level (CTFL). * Preferred: ISTQB CTAL\-TM (Test Manager) or agile methodologies. * Demonstrable experience in test management (planning, estimation, risk analysis, defect management), equivalent to a junior Test Manager. Proven track record in defining or adopting quality models, diagnosing maturity, and closing adoption gaps across multiple teams. Availability to work in a hybrid mode for an initial 3-month project with high likelihood of continuation. ### **Technical Knowledge** * Definition, stewardship, and evolution of quality governance models, guidelines, and standards. * Maturity models, assessment techniques, and data-driven process improvement methods. * Test management: planning, estimation, risk analysis, coverage, governance, and quality metrics. * ALM and management tools: Jira, Azure DevOps, and Confluence. * Test management tools: Xray, Zephyr, or equivalents. * Use of corporate generative AI assistants applied to comparative analysis and knowledge management. ### **APPLY NOW and become part of this story!** **Conditions** --------------- * **9-week service contract.** * **Seeking professional growth?** At Sofka, we offer a **learning ecosystem** with multiple tools to bridge skill gaps and enhance your capabilities. You decide how you want to grow!