Sr. Manager Software Quality Assurance

Senior Manager Software Quality Assurance

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Position Summary

We are seeking a highly skilled and hands-on "Senior Manager Software Quality Assurance" candidate specializing in Performance Engineering to lead performance testing initiatives across our suite of oncology applications. The ideal candidate should have strong skills in performance testing tools, APM solutions, automation, functional testing, QA methodology, and will lead and contribute to testing center of excellence, set standard practices, and work with cross-functional teams. This role requires deep technical expertise in identifying performance bottlenecks, and working closely with development, QA, and DevOps teams to ensure optimal application performance in production and pre-production environments.

Core Duties

• Define QA strategy and vision aligned with business goals.
• Develop and manage QA budgets, resource planning, and forecasting.
• Establish quality metrics and KPIs to measure effectiveness and efficiency.
• Risk management related to product quality and release readiness.
• Collaborate with senior leadership to align QA goals with product and engineering roadmaps.
• Recruit, train, and retain talent to build a high-performing QA organization.
• Foster a culture of quality, continuous improvement, and accountability.
• Conduct performance reviews and career development planning.
• Provide support and technical guidance towards setting up of performance testing center of excellence across suite of oncology applications.
• Implement and optimize QA processes (Agile, DevOps, CI/CD, etc.).
• Ensure compliance with industry standards and regulatory requirements.
• Drive automation strategy across functional, regression, and performance testing.
• Oversee test planning, execution, and reporting for all releases.
• Work closely with Product Management, Development, and Operations to ensure quality is built into the product from the start.
• Participate in release planning, go/no-go decisions, and post-release reviews.
• Manage stakeholder expectations and communicate QA status, risks, and mitigation plans.
• Evaluate and implement QA tools for test management, automation, performance, and defect tracking.
• Stay current with emerging technologies and trends in software testing and quality assurance.
• Define technical, product, operational, and organizational strategy for the Cloud Performance initiative and associated services.
• Establish and drive the performance engineering culture across multiple scrum teams.
• Drive architecture and methodology for load testing, performance benchmarking, and optimization at cloud scale.
• Standardize tools, techniques, and reporting across teams. Ensure best practices are documented and followed across the board.
• Hands-on execution of performance tests using tools like JMeter and Neoload.
• Utilize APM tools such as Dynatrace, AppDynamics, and New Relic to monitor and analyze application performance.
• Conduct server tuning and capacity planning to ensure scalability and reliability.
• Setup and maintain performance testing distributed infrastructure.
• Collaborate with Development leads and Scrum masters on resourcing, scheduling, and executing performance tests to meet deadlines.
• Support senior test management in identifying, recording, and resolving risks and issues.
• Review and contribute towards documentation of project test plans, integration and system plans, traceability matrix, release notes, known issue lists, and other test and release artifacts.
• Lead root cause analysis and performance bottleneck identification.
• Mentor and grow the next generation of technical leaders in performance engineering.
• Ensure alignment of performance testing efforts with business goals and application SLAs.
• Continuously evaluate and integrate new tools and technologies to enhance performance testing capabilities.
• Collaborate with squad members to define iteration plans and squad commitments, and achieve them.

Minimum Requirement

Degree or equivalent experience. Typically requires 9+ years of professional experience and 1+ years of supervisory and/or management experience.

Critical Skills

• Experience working with the CI/CD tools and processes and experience in working with different build tools like Maven, Gradle, Ant etc
• Good analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills, the ability to see the root of the problem and come up with efficient and creative, and solutions.
• Experience with BitBucket, GitHub, Git bash etc.
• Performance engineering and optimization.
• System architecture and scalability design.
• Cloud platforms: AWS, Azure, GCP.
• Understanding of Microservices architecture.
• Application profiling tools: VisualVM, AppDynamics
• Performance testing tools: Hands on JMeter, Neoload performance best practices and scripting.
• APM tools: Dynatrace, New Relic
• Programming languages: Java, Python (or similar)
• CI/CD integration for performance testing
• Database performance tuning (SQL and NoSQL)
• Containerization: Docker, Kubernetes
• Solid organizational skills including attention to detail and multitasking skills
• Experience in the Healthcare software/compliance solutions is a plus

Tools and Technologies

JMeter, Neoload, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Grafana, Splunk, JProfiler, Visual VM, Jenkins, Postgress, Oracle, AWR reports, React, JAVA, JavaScript, Groovy, Microservices, API, Kafka, Git, Bitbucket, Selenium

Candidates must be authorized to work in USA. Sponsorship is not available for this role.

We are proud to offer a competitive compensation package at McKesson as part of our Total Rewards. This is determined by several factors, including performance, experience and skills, equity, regular job market evaluations, and geographical markets. The pay range shown below is aligned with McKesson's pay philosophy, and pay will always be compliant with any applicable regulations. In addition to base pay, other compensation, such as an annual bonus or long-term incentive opportunities may be offered.

Our Base Pay Range for this position $119,000 - $198,300

McKesson is an Equal Opportunity Employer

McKesson provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees and is committed to a diverse and inclusive environment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, age or genetic information. For additional information on McKesson's full Equal Employment Opportunity policies, visit our Equal Employment Opportunity page.

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