The Quality Manager will provide expertise to enhance our Automation testing framework and velocity

Group

Founded in 1999, Bestofmedia Group is one of the top-three online media publishing companies for technology in the world with over 33 million unique readers a month and operations in 12 countries. Our sites include Tom's Hardware, Tom's Guide, Tom's Games and other leading web publications.

Mission

Being  responsible for establishing for the quality of the Bestofmedia products,  maintaining and communicating best practices for QA strategy. The ideal candidate is a functional QA person with a  strong understanding of our product and technical background who likes a dynamic environment and assignments that change often. As a member of the team you will get wide exposure to a variety of Bestofmedia products. Due to the rapidly changing team environment working in Agile mode, strong communications and teamwork skills are a must.  This individual will utilize their understanding of the QA tools, method and process to work and interact with a local team in charge of defining and implementing all products but will also have to work with a remote team which will be in charge of the QA automation. All process with the remote team have to be put in place.

Responsibilities

• Partner with developers and products to create comprehensive testing solution based on user’s navigation
• Write test plans, create test specs, implement testing strategy, participate / monitor test execution, and monitor key metrics with an offshore team
• Able to add more test coverage using existing automation frameworks, to prioritize them and to follow execution with the remote team
• Act as quality keeper during roll out of our releases.
• Able to manage a project, multi-task, triage issues, react well to changes, work independently in a fast paced environment. 
• Expert in web applications testing with multiple web configurations, web browsers and platforms.
• Improve QA infrastructure and define metrics to measure maximum efficiency and effectiveness.
• Define strategies and methodologies for product testing 
• Define and drive best practices across the organization to deliver high-quality products
• Ability to test Global software and support internationalization and localization test efforts.
• Follow project milestones; design, implement, document, and execute tests; evaluate and communicate results; and investigate product features (including ad hoc testing)

Skills/Qualifications

• Solid & effective communication skills (verbal and written) in English
• Solid teamwork and project mgt.
• Strong Experience in Web UI automated testing and tools such as selenium
• Understanding of HTML, HTTP/S, AJAX technologies.
• Experience with Windows, UNIX & XML.
• Good analytical and problem solving skills.

This job is available in the french office of Bestofmedia Group located in Suresnes (Paris - La Defense). Please send your resume to : jobs-at-bestofmedia.com