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Please share suitable profiles on below requirement

Note: Candidates should work previously in the Petroleum Sector.

Role : Quality Engineering Manager /Quality Assurance note: its not a QA role

Primary Location: Remote-North America
Interview : Virtual

We currently have an opportunity for a Quality Engineering Manager to join QAC and take ownership of the delivery aspects of Software QA/QE (Quality Assurance/ Quality Engineer) efforts for client’s OEM products in the petroleum sector. This role spans both new features on existing products and new product development. The successful candidate will be the primary point of contact and key owner for delivery success, expected to work closely with the customer QA (Quality Assurance) Manager and QA (Quality Assurance)  Architect to coordinate, plan, execute, and report on projects and teams.

Key Responsibilities:

• Leadership: Lead multiple integrated QA (Quality Assurance)  Vendor and customer QA (Quality Assurance)  teams through comprehensive Software QA/QE (Quality Assurance/ Quality Engineer)  efforts
• Strategy Development: Collaborate with the customer QA (Quality Assurance)   Architect to design and implement effective strategies and test campaigns for various projects
• Technical Assessment: Conduct an 8-week technical assessment to determine the customer’s needs, understand their current QE practices, and establish an appropriate test strategy and team structure to achieve testing goals and deliver quality
• Team Building: Understand required staffing skillsets and direct the build-out of the associated QA (Quality Assurance) Vendor teams
• Coordination: Act as a liaison with the customer QA (Quality Assurance)  Manager to provide ongoing status updates on projects and teams
• Documentation: Ensure all processes and work are fully documented, maintaining high standards of transparency and accountability.
• Technical Leadership: Provide technical leadership on QA (Quality Assurance)  and QE efforts from day one, including potentially directing and leading changes within the customer’s QE processes
• Point of Contact: Serve as the main point of contact for the Director of Engineering and QA (Quality Assurance) Manager regarding project and resource management.
• Management: Oversee the QA (Quality Assurance) Vendor team for both project management and resource management aspects, ensuring efficient and effective operations.

Mandatory technical skills:

• Deep hands-on Software QA/QE (Quality Assurance/ Quality Engineer)experience in New Product Development in the industrial automation space (oil & gas, forestry, fertilizer, mining, fishing, manufacturing, etc.)
• Previous experience with PLCs, Control and Data bus architectures, Hardware Simulators, Embedded software platforms, UI/UX front ends, and SCADA systems
• Ability to design QA/QE strategies and test campaigns for hardware-based software projects
• Superior documentation abilities including the organization of materials
• Petroleum product knowledge (nice to have): Blenders, Frac pumps, Hydrators, Acidizing, Wellhead monitors

Mandatory soft Skills:

• Excellent communication skills (both written and spoken)
• Team management
• Project planning both short-term and long-term including sprint planning
• High-energy approach to getting work done with attention to detail
• Good interpersonal skills with a desire to make the customer successful