The Role - Job Description Job Title : QA Director - Organizing Product QA for the complete EAA Software suite - This role would require occasional travelling to France - Main purpose of role In charge of Designing, Leading and Improving the QA strategy, QA Automation and QA scope of our EAA software suite including 5 main software modules - With QA fully integrated in the Agile teams, organize and lead QA engineers to be the quality leads driving quality deliveries - Evaluate, implement and supports methods and automation tools to systematize QA integration into Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery - Permanently re-evaluates methods and tools efficiency and drives continuous improvement based on agreed and monitored KQIs Key Role Responsibilities : - Responsibilities and essential job functions include but are not limited to the following: - Demonstrate sustained Autonomy and Leadership as Agile Product QA Director in managing and improving QA activities - Manages QA activities across India and France - Define, in accordance with his manager, the QA organization and targeted KQIs to deliver Products with unequalled level of quality meeting customer SLA and quality exit criteria on time and first time (incl. Functional and Non Functional targets) - Organize planning of QA related activities in the most efficient manner in accordance to the Product Roadmap, Business arbitrations and Internal Initiatives agreed commonly. - Plan resources allocations accordingly. - Ensure daily follow-up of testing activities to meet quality criteria's and respect deadlines - Measure all tests process efficiency and ensure its improvement to guarantee leading edge automation, higher productivity and better quality of deliveries. - Improve QA team skills by organizing trainings, making value-added recruitments, skill transfers in support of an excellent QA team building - Report Test Activities with unified and appropriate KPI dashboards - Report Customer Centric Software Delivery Quality KQI dashboards The Person Skills (technical and non-technical) & Qualifications : Must have : - QA Leadership recognition across the whole R&D - Autonomy, Collaborative Spirit, Self-Confidence, communicative both internally within the team and externally to other parts of the organization - Organized, having a sense urgency, priorities and arbitrations - Expert in Agile QA Methodologies/Organizations - Managed QA teams fully integrated in SCRUM teams and aligned on sprint delivery timelines - Proven Experience in leading QA improvements and transformation based on KPIs, KQIs - Advocate of QA automation be it Functional or Non Functional (E2E Integration, Performance, Robustness, HA, Service Resiliency) - Proven experience in QA- ing Cloud Deployed Software (Containerized, Cloud deployments, Platform Orchestrated) - Fluent English, French is a plus Key interactions : All of SWE and PLM (ref:hirist.com)