From: Frederic A. Anand [mailto:Frederic_Anand@infosys.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 21, 2009 10:57 AM
To: Sundharraj, Madhumathy
Subject: FW: McAfee - Current Openings
From: Balakrishnan Srinivasan
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Subject: FW: McAfee - Current Openings
From: Palanisamy, KG IN BLR SISL [mailto:KG.Palanisamy@siemens.com]
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Subject: FW: McAfee - Current Openings
From: Aravind_Dhakshinamoorthy@McAfee.com [mailto:Aravind_Dhakshinamoorthy@McAfee.com]
Sent: Monday, May 18, 2009 10:53 PM
Subject: McAfee - Current Openings
· We need the following HEROES for McAfee India Center
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Job Code
Team
Required Skills
Designation
Job Type
1
Sr_Dev_Avert_7
Avert
About the Role
1. Design and implement new features at both the kernel and user mode levels.
Primary Responsibilities
1. Analyze, debug and root cause driver level issues and implement solutions.
2.. Develop unit tests and work with QA to develop test plans to validate the new features, enhancements and/or fixes.
3. Maintain code base of current shipping products.
4. Work closely with our support organization as well as external customers to address field escalation as part of the bug reproduction process.
5. Be involved in continuous product quality and feature enhancement for shipping products.
Experience & Qualifications
1. 2-8 years of Development Experience with at least 3 years of experience in driver development on Windows platforms is required.
2. Windows internals understanding and kernel development is must.
3. Expert knowledge of UNIX operating system architecture, memory management mechanism, synchronization and File systems.
4. Experience with using kernel debugger to debug and fix complex low level problems.
5. Experience and understanding of the product development life cycle process..
6. Team player.
7. Security knowledge is a plus.
8. Experience in cross-platform development desirable.
9. BS in Computer Science or related discipline (Masters Degree desirable).
Competencies / Skill sets required for the role
1. Proven experience in C/C++ programming on Linux \ Solaris \ HP; Windows programming related experience is highly desired as well.
2. Networking knowledge is a plus and ability to analyze network traffic using sniffers (i.e. Ethereal, Windows LANAnalyzer).
3.. Strong problem solving and analytical skills such as root causing from Unix panic logs or Windows Crash Dumps.
4. Excellent communication skills, both oral and written, and the ability to collaborate with internal and external parties including QA, Support, Development Engineers and Customers
Senior Development Engineer
2
FSE_Avert_7
Avert
About the Role
Avert Labs Field Engineer is a dedicated 24 x 7 team that is the escalation point for all Sales and Support escalations that involve all areas of content including Malware and Vulnerability issues/research. The Field Engineers assist technical support in resolving any and all issues regarding malicious activity seen within a customers environment and coordinate the appropriate response by the Avert Labs research teams.
Primary Responsibilities
1. Manage high level technical escalations requiring the assistance of the Avert Labs Research teams.
2. Build and deliver training to Technical Support and Sales organizations.
3. Coordinate response to emergency situations.
4. Monitor the threat landscape for new and emerging threats and vulnerabilities and coordinate the Avert Labs Research response.
5. Assist Research and Development teams in development and testing new technologies to mitigate threats.
6. Develop and deliver technical documentation to assist customers in resolving threat related issues.
7. Provide constant communication of security events to all impacted parties.
Experience & Qualifications
1. High level knowledge of Operating Systems and Network Communication required.
2. The ideal applicant is a technical person with good written communication skills.
3. Fluency in English is essential - other language skills are a plus.
4. Applicant should be able to work during weekends or late night/early morning shifts.
5. Customer focused with at least 2 years previous experience in customer facing environment.
Competencies / Skill sets required for the role
1. Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent industry experience.
2. Self-motivation, the ability to work as part of a team, and attention to detail will ensure success.
3. Highly customer focused.
Field Support Engineer
3
TRA_Avert_5
Avert
About the Role
Threat Research Analyst is a dedicated 24 x 7 (including weekend coverage) contact for customer samples and escalations. The Analyst manages the queue of sample submissions and communicates results of Avert Labs analysis and research to the users.
Primary Responsibilities
1. Look after automatic sample analysis system. Verify its constant 24x7 operation.
2. Monitor the Anti-Spam update servers to verify their constant 24x7 operation.
3. Escalate problems in the automated systems.
4. Review and categorize spam, phishing and malware content
5. Provide feedback to the users, reply to their inquiries.(e.g. to Support).
6. Provide highest level of Customer service with quick and prompt responses to Customers.
7. Escalate and manage cases within the timeframes allotted.
8. Record and document all issues related to Customers # Internal and External.
9. Analyze simple problems and implement solutions.
10. Escalate hard cases to virus and spam researchers and assist them in deep analysis.
11. Establish and sustain close engagement with the customers and technical support.
Experience & Qualifications
1. 1-2yrs of experience. The ideal applicant is a technical person with good written communication skills.
2. Good knowledge of PC, MS Office and Outlook and/or other email systems.
3. Fluency in English is essential - other language skills are a plus.
4. Applicant should be able to work during weekends.
5. Customer focused with previous experience in customer facing environment.
Competencies / Skill sets required for the role
1. Bachelor's degree in ComputerScience or equivalent industry experience.
2. Self-motivation, the ability to work as part of a team, and attention to detail will ensure success.
3. Highly customer focused.
Threat Research Analyst
4
RS_Avert_7
Avert
About the Role
McAfee Avert Labs is looking for researchers to contribute in the investigation, detection, and prevention of threats across various network application protocols including web services, database, gaming, P2P/IM, VoIP etc for our industry leading network security solutions.
Primary Responsibilities
The main responsibilities for this position focus on:
1. Capture, dissect and analyze (Layer 7) network application protocols.
2. Develop signatures or algorithms to detect and block the threats, as well as the applications themselves.
Experience & Qualifications
The qualified candidates are expected to possess: 1. 1-3 years direct or equivalent experience in areas of networking/system administration, network protocols analysis, and software development.
2. Proficient with at least one scripting language (perl, python, etc).
3. Proficient RFC level working knowledge of networking protocols including: TCP/IP, HTTP, DNS, HTTPS, etc.
4. Proficient in network traffic analysis tools such as wireshark/tcpdump, TCPView etc.
5. Network based IPS knowledge and experience a definite plus.
6. Strong problem solving, troubleshooting, & analytical skills.
7. Experience of working in fast-paced development environments.
8. Good written & verbal communication skills.
9. Good inter-personal and teamwork skills.
10. BS/MS in computer science or equivalent experience.
Competencies / Skill sets required for the role
Self-driven, proactive, hardworking, team-player with a good sense of humor
Research Scientist
5
Sr_Dev_Avert_7
Avert
About the Role
This position is for an Automation engineer to work as part of the McAfee Avert Labs Risk and Compliance Content Operations team.
This is a very creative role and challenging role, candidate need to come up with automation framework and work closely with Risk and Compliance backend infrastructure team.
Primary Responsibilities
Development responsibilities:
1. Work in co-operation with the Infrastructure team, Dev and QA team to come up with automation frame work for the regression testing for all Risk and compliance content operations.
2. Design, Develop, manage and maintain the automation frame work and automation scripts.
Operational responsibilities:
1. Pro-actively monitor progress, report and address issues.
2. Come up with new ideas in improving and creating automation process.
3. Respond to new requirements as appropriate and deliver automation scripts accordingly.
4. Create, update and deploy new scripts whenever required.
Competencies / Skill sets required for the role:
1. 4-6years of experience.
2. Should be from a strong engineering background.
3. Must have experience in SVN (Sub Version control), preferably Tortoise.
4. Should be well versed with XML and XML editors.
5. Should have strong knowledge of automation frameworks. (Keywords, Modularity, Custom).
6. Should have working knowledge of automation tools like QTP, QC etc.
7. Strong scripting skills (bash, Perl, Python, Ruby etc).
8. Should have good exposure to databases (SQL, Postgress SQL).
9. Thorough understanding of IP, HTTP, SSH, SMTP, DNS, NFS (Networking).
10. Excellent written and verbal communications skills.
11. Should have good customer and results focus.
12. Should be value driven and very good team player.
13. Should have experience with Regular Expressions.
14. Willingness to perform out-of-hours system support if required.
Experience & Qualifications
1. Some knowledge of Windows system administration.
2. Knowledge of JavaScript, HTML/CSS.
3. Good knowledge of C/C++
Senior Dev Engineer
6
Sr_Mgr_11
Avert
About the Role
Serve in managerial capacity, and manage AvertLabs Software Engineering and Quality assurance teams at Bangalore developing and testing backend systems and product components involved with providing protect against Malware. The candidate will be responsible for starting (hiring, training and operating) a System Core team in Avertlabs Bangalore. System core is one of the important systems in the AV engine that deals with low level interactions with the operating system Kernel and also the network scanning products. This will involve building and managing a team of device driver and win32 programmers and whitebox QA engineers.
Primary Responsibilities
1 Extensive knowledge of the implementation of the full product lifecycle and development using agile scrum processes.
2. Excellent project management skills. Able to plan projects and manage deliveries to schedule. Able to track risks and issues and communicate in a timely manner to management.
3. Strong understanding of metrics for QA and software development activities.
4. Able to ensure that all aspects of a product building and release are considered and achieved - cross team and cross site communication required.
5. Ability to see beyond his/her responsibility, share ideas and drive change at a cross team level.
6. Provides guidance to subordinates within the latitude of established company policies. Recommends changes to policies and establishes procedures that affect immediate organization(s).
7. Encourages new ideas from others. Generates and maintains a creative and change-oriented environment, which leads to new and effective ideas.
8. Encourages and facilitates beneficial resolution to conflict. Exercises calm, sound, constructive judgement during conflicts or Awkward situations.
9. Arranges specific assignments or projects to challenge others and stretch their ability and self confidence.
10. Interpersonal understanding: Makes inferences that go beyond the explicit content and emotion. Understands current, unexpressed or poorly expressed thoughts, concerns or feelings.
11. Is able to be the voice of the team members.
12. Is able to effectively balance the expectations of management and the team.
13. Is able to do career planning and mentoring for the team members.
Experience & Qualifications
1 Bachelor of Engineering or Master of Engineering in Computer Science from recognized Indian/foreign Universities.
2 10 – 12 yrs of experience.
Competencies / Skill sets required for the role
1 5+ years leading teams in project plan execution.
2 5+ years experience in people management.
3 3+ years managing projects and communication access global corporate sites.
4 3+ years experience in managing / executing projects using agile processes.
5 3+ years experience leading software development projects.
6 3+ years experience in testing domain.
7 3+ years Automation Test Development.
8 3+ years developing project plans.
9 Experience with recruitment of software engineers and QA resources.
10 Knowledge of technologies in the areas of – C++, .net, web based technologies/protocols and network infrastructure.
11 Experience in the Anti-Virus and security expertise would be an advantage.
Senior Development Manager
7
BW_Ana_6
Biz Operations
About the Role
Work with different teams of McAfee who create financial and operational reports to understand the functionality of the reports and design the technical specification for creating the reports in SAP BW. In the process of creation of these new reports there may be need for creating new data flow or enhancing the existing data flow which needs to be designed and enhanced with the help of SAP BW IT Team in McAfee.
Primary Responsibilities
1. Work with users to gather requirement for new development.
2. Creation of new reports as per the specifications.
3. Training to user on using the new reports created.
4. Reconciliation of Data between the different system to maintain integrity.
5. Helping IT team in doing the enhancements of objects
Experience & Qualifications
1. Minimum of 3 years of experience on SAP BW Module.
2. Graduation in B.Com / B.E / B.B.M / M.B.A .
Competencies / Skill sets required for the role
1. Good communication skills as it needs lot of interaction with users all over the world.
2. Ability to work independently and complete the task..
3. Should be good at using Microsoft Excel.
4. Enthusiastic self-starter with strong logical and reasoning capabilities.
5. Highly organized and ability to work on multiple projects at once.
BW Analyst
8
Dev_Consumer_7
Consumer
About the Role
This is Senior Software Development Engineer role. The person will be an integral part of Consumer Infrastructure API team (MIC) and working with the offsite team in Sunnyvale on a need basis. The person should be proficient in .NET and SQL Server and responsible for taking a senior role for enterprise quality dynamic server side applications/components.
Primary Responsibilities
The responsibilities will include the following:
1. Participates in the process of setting future technical strategies and influences strategic direction for product and product family in reaction to business needs or industry trends.
2. Adapts and promotes overall direction to reflect changes within the company.
3. Quickly, efficiently and independently resolve highly complex problems, even those of large scale or across multiple products.
4. Applies engineering processes (e.g. Unit testing) to consistently produce sound solutions of high quality. Able to independently produce quality solutions on problems of high complexity.
5. Mentoring members of the engineering team on matters pertaining to technical specialty.
6. Receives general input from management and translates this direction into appropriate operational items to drive projects towards completion. Foresees future direction and aligns current activities in alignments with this direction. Takes responsibility for updating own skills and technical growth
Experience & Qualifications
1. 5+ years of .NET (C#) development specializing in writing server side components, web applications and database development (SQL Server).
2. Bachelors/Masters in Engineering (preferably in IT or CS).
Competencies / Skill sets required for the role
1. Specializing in Core .NET Framework (3.5), web applications (ASP.NET) and server side components.
2. Specializing in SQL Server Development, Database Design, Stored Procedures and T-SQL.
3. Must have knowledge in XML processing in .NET (advanced).
4. Must have knowledge of VB6 component development.
5. Must have experience with planning and creating large enterprise quality multi user systems. .
Senior Dev Engineer
9
SR_Dev_Enterprise_7
Enterprise
Primary Responsibilities
This person will be responsible for the incremental product development / engineering for an important project of McAfee. He or she will work to identify and prioritize requirements and develop the newer versions of the product within specified timelines. He or she should be able to understand the business requirements and translate into technical requirements as well as work independently. This individual apart from being a quick learner will also be very methodical and detail oriented.
Experience & Qualifications
An ideal candidate should have the following:
• Must have very strong C++ experience & programming skills.
• Must have very good working knowledge of COM/DCOM and Multithreading.
• Must have excellent debugging skills.
• Must have very good analytical / problem solving skills.
• Should have worked on MS Visual Studio (any other IDE & IDE tools).
• Good working knowledge of Windows XP/Vista is required.
• Should have very good exposure to CM tools (preferably SVN).
• Experience in .NET technologies / excellent knowledge would be a very big advantage.
• Must be self motivated.
• Must have excellent verbal and written communications skills.
• Must be a very good team player.
Experience & Qualifications
Experience: 3-6 years
Should have an B.E / B.Tech (preferably in Computer Science) / MCA
Senior Software Engineer
10
Sr_PM_Saas_11
Enterprise
About the Role
1. This Product Manager is the business owner for one or more Software as a Service (SaaS) products/services.
2. He/She will work with engineering, customers, support and sales to define, design, and deliver product capabilities required to be successful in target markets (vertical and size segment).
3. The PM will provide strategic product direction for our SaaS services and will be responsible for defining and communicating the product strategy and product roadmap within the context of McAfee's SaaS solutions and the overall McAfee strategic goals.
4. The Product Manager will work with Sales and Services organizations to maximize revenue generated from the assigned product areas as well as ensure the success of customers.
5. He/She will work in a matrix organization, teaming closely with cross-functional teams both locally and in remote locations .
Experience
The experience will include the following:
1. Successfully written PRDs and MRDs for enterprise-class software solutions.
2. Led product feature requirements definition development and research.
3. Proven ability to define technical software solutions at a business, strategy and functional level.
4. Experience working across all key market segments from small businesses to large enterprises.
5. Experience working with multiple routes-to-market including direct and channel models.
6. Experience with security software strongly preferred.
7. Experience managing Software as a Service (SaaS) products/services strongly preferred.
8. Successfully launched new software products to the Enterprise (Fortune 1000) market.
9. Track record of attaining cross-functional consensus and delivery of goals on time.
Competencies / Skill sets required for the role
1. Must possess business analysis skills and the ability to translate business planning into product execution.
2. Proven ability to influence across an organization without direct heirarchical ownership of teams or products.
3. Proven track record of attaining cross-functional consensus and delivery of goals on time.
4. Demonstrated ability to turn a deep understanding of customer’s security and business concerns into product requirements and product vision.
5. Excellent listening, verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to analyze and communicate technical issues, lead discussions, and influence decisions.
6. Excellent presentation skills and the ability to adapt messaging to target audience.
7. Ability to present to both highly technical audiences as well as non-technical, business focused Individuals.
8. Willingness to travel. Would constitute about 20-30% of the time.
Qualifications
1. 10+ years of overall experience with 6+ years in Enterprise or SMB Software Product Management in good MNCs.
2. 4 years experience in Security Industry experience is preferred.
3. 2 years SaaS Industry experience.
4. Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent. MBA a plus.
5. Knowledge of Systems management solutions strongly preferred
Senior Product Manager
11
QA_VSE_6
Enterprise
About the Role
Intereact with the design team and work with them in resolving bugs in the product.
Primary Responsibilities
1. Good understanding and ability to apply aggressive bug finding techniques.
2. Good knowledge of the module/ area of work.
3. Good understanding of QA processes and concepts including defect life cycle, defect classification guidelines, Test Script preparation, testing methodologies.
4. Able to describe a bug accurately and clearly.
Experience & Qualifications
1.. 4 – 6years of Experience.
2. Good experience in C / C++ based applications.
3. Strong knowledge on Windows concepts - DLL , registry.
4. Good in Troubleshooting.
5. QTP automation.
6. Windows.
7. QA – Black box.
8. B.Tech/ M.Tech. Masters of Computer Applications.
Nice to Have skills:
1. Experience with virtualization technologies such as Microsoft Hyper-V, VMWare ESX Server, and Citrix XenServer a plus.
2. Experience with SAN/NAS storage systems a plus.
3. Experience with SAP NetWeaver a plus.
4. Experience with HP Quality Center software a plus.
5. Scripting – Windows Scripting (WMI), Perl, etc.
6. Knowledge of XML & .Net.
7. Security Testing.
8. Performance Testing.
9. Whitebox.
10. Automation – Tools.
11. QA – Certification (CSTE, CSQA, ISTQB).
Competencies / Skill sets required for the role
1. Skills: QA – Black box, Windows, automation, scripting – Perl, QTP, Windows Scripting (VB / WMI
QA Engineer
12
QA_SIA_6
Enterprise
About the Role
Security Innovation Alliance ( SIA) is an ePO integration program. The partners integrate their product to ePO. The SIA engineering team is Responsible for the release of external SDK, create sample code snippets, Support partners in their integration and Test the integration to certify McAfee Compatible.
• The candidate will be predominantly doing the integration Testing. He /She is expected to understand the new products/ features and ensure that the testing is done appropriately to maintain the Quality of the integration.
• Look for ways to optimize testing through automation.
• The program is dynamic in nature.. Candidate should be willing to learn and develop different skills to perform different activities required for the success of the program.
Experience & Qualifications
1. 2-4yrs of Experience.
2. White box Testing experience.
3. Experience in code reviews and walk through.
4. Good understanding of web technologies – HTML, DHTML, XML, XSLT,CSS, scripting languages, usability issues.
5. Knowledge of Java, J2SE, Struts, TomCat is must.
6. Knowledge of C/C++ is an advantage.
7. Product QA / testing experience mandatory.
8. Broad understanding of multiple testing methodologies and expertise in white box testing, use of various testing tools is a must.
9. Exposure to Java Enterprise Architecture is a plus.
10. Good communication skills (spoken and written) are essential.
11. Ability to work in teams.
Competencies / Skill sets required for the role
1. BSc comp/ MCA/ BE/Btech.
2. Good communication skills (spoken and written) are essential.
3.. Ability to work in teams.
4. Interaction with customers is a plus
QA Engineer
13
Pri_Engg_Intrushield_8
Intrushield
About the Role
Development of the Intrushield product IDS/IPS.
Primary Responsibilities
1. Will be responsible for development of the intrusheild product IDS/IPS.
Experience & Qualifications:
1. 5+ years of embedded in Linux and/or VxWorks • .
2. Expert in C programming with Linux kernel internals • .
3. Application Protocol implementation required • Prior Security product development like IPS/IDS, Firewall a plus •
4. Design, Architecture and Functional specification experience required•
5. Knowledge of scripting language XML required • Debugging with windshell or bash environment.
6. Multiprocess/Multithreaded Socket programming.
7. Proficient in algorithms, code optimizations .
8. Processors MIPS/X-86 • Interest in freeware linux networking code analysis.
9. B.S. in CS/CE from a reputed University, M.S. preferred
Competencies / Skill sets required for the role
1. Thorough knowledge of Networking Protocols and L7 Application protocols.
2. Problem solving skills
Principle Engineer
14
Sr_QA_Intrushield_7
Intrushield
About the Role
Intereact with the design team and work with them in resolving bugs in the product.
Primary Responsibilities
1. Understand the product requirement.
2. Be able to imagine required test needs and strategize testing.
3. Test plan development and documentation .
4. Be able to interact with design teams and work with them in resolving bugs, ensuring that the product meets the quality expectations
Experience & Qualifications
1. 4-6 years in testing network related products .
2. Networking, VPN, VLAN, Routing Protocols, Firewall concepts -Familiarity with TCP/IP and related protocols (http, smtp..) .
3. Hands on experience with Hands on with public domain security -Good Knowledge of Unix, Linux, Windows OS.
4. Exposure to Tcl/Tk, perl desirable.
5. CCNA/CCNP desirable Testing:
Competencies / Skill sets required for the role
1. Familiar with bug tracking system like Bugzilla.
2. Clear understanding of SDLC, QA Process, Defect lifecycle.
3. Attention to detail.
4. Able to work under pressure.
Senior QA Engineer
15
QA_Intrushield_6
Intrushield
About the Role
Intereact with the design team and work with them in resolving bugs in the product.
Primary Responsibilities
1. Understand the product requirement.
2. Be able to imagine required test needs and strategize testing.
3. Test plan development and documentation .
4.. Be able to interact with design teams and work with them in resolving bugs, ensuring that the product meets the quality expectations
Experience & Qualifications
1. 2-4 years in testing network related products .
2. Networking, VPN, VLAN, Routing Protocols, Firewall concepts -Familiarity with TCP/IP and related protocols (http, smtp..) .
3. Hands on experience with Hands on with public domain security -Good Knowledge of Unix, Linux, Windows OS.
4. Exposure to Tcl/Tk, perl desirable.
5. CCNA/CCNP desirable Testing:
Competencies / Skill sets required for the role
1. Familiar with bug tracking system like Bugzilla.
2. Clear understanding of SDLC, QA Process, Defect lifecycle.
3. Attention to detail.
4. Able to work under pressure.
QA Engineer
16
Sal_Rep_6
Sales Operations
About the Role
Inside sales representative is assigned to a territory to develop new business and qualifying prospects
Primary Responsibilities
The responsibilities will include the following:
1. The candidate will be responsible for developing new business and qualifying prospects.
2. Utilizing best practices for sales methodology.
3. Territory & Quota management.
4. Responsible for cold calling & following up with marketing campaigns.
5. Collaborate with channel & sales teams to acquisition new biz
Experience & Qualifications
1. Graduate with 2-4 years of work experience in the ITES industry with the experience being in an Outbound Process.
2. Prior work experience in a similar role as a customer service executive for US/ UK regions is essential.
3. Ability to work effectively with a wide range of constituencies in a diverse community.
4. Must have the ability to communicate effectively and engage the customers interest and attention for long durations.
5. Knowledge in sales back end process is required.
6. Proficient in Microsoft Office Products, such as Word, Excel and Power Point.
7. Must have had account qualification & account management experience.
8. Willing to work in varied shifts.
Competencies / Skill sets required for the role
1. Excellent Written English Skills.
2. Excellent Communication & Presentation Skills.
3. A Graduate in any stream.
4. High energy levels.
Inside Sales Representative
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QA_Mgr_Supportability_10
Supportability
About the Role
Candidate will be required to lead a 10 member QA team spread across 3 geographical locations (India, Canada & Ireland). Primary responsibility will be to plan, test & deliver on the multiple supportability product lines that are developed to help reduce support costs for the organization. These are a combination of web based (ASP, .NET) & Client – Server (C++) applications which run on Windows & Linux OS. Candidate will be required to be hands on with the product & be able to guide and mentor the team technically.
Primary Responsibilities
Work with the Dev Manager, Product Manager & Program Manager to review upcoming requirements & plan releases.
Produce test plans in collaboration with the Development manager and accurately gauge work estimates.
Able to execute multiple projects simultaneously..
Excellent project management skills. Able to track risks and issues and communicate in a timely manner to management.
Strong understanding of QA metrics.
Able to ensure that all aspects of a product building and release are considered and achieved- lots of cross team and cross site communication Possess excellent people management skills. Be able to conduct MBO goals, appraisals and set targets and assess people
Broad understanding of products throughout the BU (Business Unit) and how they interrelate.
Ability to see beyond his/her responsibility, share ideas and drive change at a cross team level.
Adapts own thinking to meet changes or unexpected external constraints and does things that are unique to address those constraints Encourages new ideas from others. Generates and maintains a creative and change-oriented environment, which leads to new and effective ideas.
Builds good motivation and cooperation within the team, including creating symbols of group identity or other actions to build cohesiveness. Encourages and facilitates beneficial resolution to conflict.
Exercises calm, sound, constructive judgment during conflicts or awkward situations.
Arranges specific assignments or projects to challenge others and stretch their ability and self confidence.
Gives others autonomy to approach issues in their own way, including the opportunity to make and learn from mistakes. Interpersonal understanding: Makes inferences that go beyond the explicit content and emotion. Understands current, unexpressed or poorly expressed thoughts, concerns or feelings.
Is able to be the voice of the team.
Is able to effectively balance the expectations of management and the team.
Is able to do career planning and mentoring for the team.
Anticipates and takes action to create an opportunity or avoid future crisis.
Thinks ahead and plans for contingencies.
Able to effectively communicate with senior management.
Experience & Qualifications
8+ years experience in testing domain.
3+ years experience in managing / executing test projects in a product development model .
3+ years Automation Test Development (PERL, Python, UI Automation tools like QTP, SilkTest).
3+ years leading teams in project plan execution.
3+ years developing project plans.
2+ years experience in people management.
Strong technical knowledge in the areas of Black box test techniques & methodologies, Windows concepts, Testing of C++ apps Prior experience on working with web based deployment models is preferred
Performance / Security testing knowledge will be a plus.
Competencies / Skill sets required for the role
Bachelor of Engineering or Master of Engineering in Computer Science from recognized Indian/foreign Universities 10+ yrs of experience
