Background:
We are looking for an intelligent, self-motivated candidate to play a key role participating in and leading our Quality Assurance team. The ideal candidate will feel right at home with a group of smart, dedicated colleagues who enjoy working together to build a rapidly growing company.
Our application, Projector, is a Professional Services Automation suite that is used by project-based organizations in 65 countries around the world. It forms the central system that our clients rely on to run their businesses, and provides the project accounting, resource planning, and project management capabilities that are at the heart of their operations. Our system manages over $40 billion in financial transactions each year along with managing the activities of tens of thousands of users and hundreds of thousands of projects. Our QA team is critical to ensuring that our software is designed and built to manage all of that data accurately and easily.
We are in the process of radically redesigning our user interface to improve the level of usability of our currently very powerful and highly functional application. As we do that, we will be fundamentally re-imagining parts of our application to deliver capabilities new to our industry. This is an exciting opportunity for someone interested in helping us rethink the product upon which our entire business is based. At the same time, this entrepreneurial activity takes place in an environment largely devoid of start-up risks, given that Projector is already an established product with an existing user base and steady revenue stream.
This is a ground-floor opportunity to work in a fast-paced environment. The successful candidate will have excellent opportunities to grow as the business grows.
Responsibilities:
This will be a Full time role here in the Boston office with a strong emphasis on hands-on test execution in addition to people and process management.
Responsibilities include:
- Setting the overall test strategy, approach and direction
- Managing the QA team to ensure efficient and complete coverage throughout the project life cycle and timely delivery of a quality product
- Developing and executing test plans, test cases, and test scripts
- Identifying and monitoring project and process metrics to measure system efficiency, application stability, and performance to schedule
- Working with product management to review and clarify functional requirements for thoroughness and detail
- Working with our engineering team to coordinate delivery of functionality from development into QA
- Developing ongoing improvement processes to ensure that problems found in production are analyzed for root cause and are translated into corrective actions
- Providing Tier II support when questions about functionality and application behavior arise that need to be escalated from Tier I support
Skills:
- Thorough knowledge of software development and QA processes, best practices and methodology
- Excellent project, process, and people management skills
- Strong problem solving and mathematically oriented analytical skills
- Experience with testing complex transactional business applications
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Strong initiative organization skills, attention to detail, and good judgment
- Ability to multi-task and adapt to changing priorities
- Experience with web application testing and test automation a plus
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's or master's degree in business, computer science, mathematics, or related field
- 5 years of software QA experience, including experience testing complex business applications
- 2 years of experience in project, process, or QA management
About Projector
Projector PSA, Inc. is a leading supplier of on-emand professional services automation software using a cloud-based Software as a Service ( SaaS ) business model. Founded in 2003, we continue to profitably grow our customers, users, and revenue. Our success is due to a special combination of our business model, our value proposition, and a close-knit team of people able to contribute to many facets of the business through a strong team-oriented culture. Projector's track record enhances the opportunities for personal growth by giving employees exposure to many aspects of the company.
We are looking for people who are intelligent, detail-oriented, hard-working, and excited about working in a fast-paced and challenging environment. We offer competitive compensation, including stock options.
How to Apply
This is for a full-time, permanent position in the Boston area. Principals only. No agencies or contractors please. Please e-mail a Resume and cover letter to (see below), referencing job code QAM-CJ to apply.