IT Project Manager- Senior

TechDigital
  • NY, NY
    30+ days ago

    Job Description

    ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES
    • Lead several IT Quality Assurance teams through a clearly defined process-driven methodology to ensure project goals, QA standards, and internal best practices are routinely and meticulously followed.
    • Partner with Business and Development teams to review business / technical requirements and guides and assists QA testers in generating comprehensive test strategy, plans, impact analysis and test cases for effective assurance and testing functions.
    • Manage QA capacity and resources and scheduling QA activities and quality gates for their project teams.
    • Through contribution, help define and establish new sets of best-practices, processes, scorecards and tooling for Quality Assurance organization. This is to ensure that overall productivity and quality is measured to optimize targeted milestones.
    • Collaborate with the Automation Lead(s) to establish a standards-based automation and performance testing competency. This includes developing a robust testing framework, utilizing testing and test management tools, and creating test data and test cases for key applications across the portfolio.
    • Develop and maintain functional, end-to-end, performance, and regression test suites that thoroughly cover all aspects of applications across the portfolio.
    • Ensure comprehensive impact analysis is conducted and reviewed thoroughly to identify the right test cases that cover relevant exposures, in collaboration with project stakeholders.
    • Plan, execute, manage, and report on all testing and assurance activities across projects and applications.
    • Publish standardized QA productivity metrics, as well as project and release testing status reports, across all projects and applications on a weekly or recurring basis.
    • Serve as a critical resource in maintaining smooth operation of production systems and play a pivotal role in cutovers, smoke testing, triaging, and release activities.
    • Manage the overall QA project plan, including resource and capacity profiles for assigned business lines. Collaborate with application and project managers periodically to review plan changes, variations, and actuals against forecasts.
    • Recommend new technologies, processes, and procedures to continuously improve the overall Quality Assurance function.
    • Provide ongoing training and guidance to the QA team on quality standards and practices.

    Technical Qualification:
    • 8+ years of project management experience for complex application and data integration projects.
    • Detailed knowledge of project management and software development life cycle methodologies.
    • Experience managing mid-sized to large IT integration projects, independently.
    • Career experience within Commercial Insurance, is desired.
    • Facilitation skills with an ability to effectively manage cross-functional team discussions.
    • Strong management skills with an ability to achieve results in a matrix management environment.
    • Ability to translate business needs into IT deliverables.
    • Able to successfully apply waterfall, agile, and hybrid project-delivery methodologies.
    • Possess multi-disciplinary information technology knowledge with proven systems deployment experience.
    • Experience using Project and Portfolio Management tools (MS Project, Planview, SharePoint, etc.)
    • Expertise in all aspects of requirements and testing processes.


    GENERAL QUALIFICATIONS
    • Detail-oriented and extremely organized.
    • Strong analytical and managerial abilities.
    • Strong business planning and prioritization skills.
    • Ability to handle multiple priorities and proactively identify risks to project timelines.
    • Excellent written & verbal (business) communications skills.
    • Ability to work across organizational boundaries and bring people together with diverse perspectives to find solutions.
    • Strong personal time-management skills with the ability to meet individual and team deadlines.

    Numbers & Facts

    LocationNY, NY
    IndustryOther/Not Classified
    Company Size100 to 499 employees

    Skills

    • Actualsunmatched
    • Agile Programming Methodologiesunmatched
    • Analysis Skillsunmatched
    • Application Integrationunmatched
    • Automationunmatched
    • Best Practicesunmatched
    • Business Planunmatched
    • Business Skillsunmatched
    • Communication Skillsunmatched
    • Continuous Improvementunmatched
    • Cross-Functionalunmatched
    • Detail Orientedunmatched
    • Develop Test Toolsunmatched
    • Establish Prioritiesunmatched
    • Forecastingunmatched
    • Information Technology & Information Systemsunmatched
    • Information Technology/Information Systems Quality Assuranceunmatched
    • Insuranceunmatched
    • Machine Toolunmatched
    • Matrix Managementunmatched
    • Microsoft Projectunmatched
    • Microsoft SharePointunmatched
    • Multitaskingunmatched
    • Organizational Skillsunmatched
    • Performance Testingunmatched
    • Presentation/Verbal Skillsunmatched
    • Problem Solving Skillsunmatched
    • Production Systemsunmatched
    • Project Management Softwareunmatched
    • Project Planningunmatched
    • Project Portfolio Management (PPM)unmatched
    • Project/Program Managementunmatched
    • Quality Assuranceunmatched
    • Quality Assurance Methodologyunmatched
    • Quality Metricsunmatched
    • Regression Testingunmatched
    • Risk Analysisunmatched
    • Scorecardingunmatched
    • Smoke Testingunmatched
    • Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)unmatched
    • Status Reportsunmatched
    • Strategic Planningunmatched
    • System Operationsunmatched
    • Team Lead/Managerunmatched
    • Technical Deliveryunmatched
    • Technical Leadershipunmatched
    • Test Automationunmatched
    • Test Caseunmatched
    • Test Dataunmatched
    • Test Plan/Scheduleunmatched
    • Test Requirementsunmatched
    • Test Strategyunmatched
    • Test Suiteunmatched
    • Testingunmatched
    • Time Managementunmatched
    • Training/Teachingunmatched
    • Waterfall Model of Software Developmentunmatched
    • Writing Skillsunmatched

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