Madrid, Comunidad de Madrid, España
Onsite
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End-to-End QA Management: Independently manages end-to-end quality assurance tasks across various capabilities and contributes to more complex testing and quality problems.
Mentorship & Best Practices: Mentors more junior team members and contributes to the development of Quality Engineering best practices.
Overall Strategy Ownership: Maintain the master Regression Test Strategy, ensuring it evolves alongside the ASPIRE product roadmap and the eventual decommissioning of DIA.
Methodology & CSV: Ensure all regression activities align with the ASPIRE Test Methodology and are fully compliant with Quality/CSV standards.
Problem Analysis & Root Cause: Independently leads the analysis of moderately complex software quality problems, clearly defining the testing scope and driving root cause analysis.
Requirements & Test Planning: Elicits, analyzes, and synthesizes complex stakeholder needs regarding software quality and user experience. Accountable for the delivery of comprehensive test plans and quality requirements, contributing significantly to the design and validation of effective testing strategies.
Process Improvement: Analyzes technology fit for quality tools, proactively identifies test gaps, and drives QA process improvement initiatives.
Gap Remediation: Proactively build and improve processes where the handover between deployment and production support is weak.
Leadership & Accountability: Champions accountability by example (such as taking QA lead and/or test architect roles).
Deviation Management: Record and justify any deviations from the overall strategy, ensuring a clear audit trail.
Relationship Management: Identifies and effectively manages relationships with a diverse range of stakeholders across functional areas on medium to large-sized engagements.
Engagement & Facilitation: Facilitates workshops, resolves conflicts, and acts as an independent leader defining stakeholder engagement strategies for complex initiatives.
Strategic Guidance: Proactively shapes stakeholder perspectives, anticipates and strategically manages expectations, and offers expert guidance to build reliance as a trusted advisor.
Change Evangelism: Educate ITOT and Business Capability Owners at local live sites on the why behind regression testing, shifting the perception from a "bottleneck" to a "business protector."
The Bridge: Act as the formal liaison between ASPIRE Deployment teams and the live business, ensuring a seamless onboarding of new sites into the central automation suite.
Goal Achievement: Demonstrates strong and consistent performance with impact typically extending to a specific product, initiative, or cluster. Contributes to the achievement of product or domain goals by ensuring that delivered solutions meet business needs and provide demonstrable value.
Organizational Development: Takes a proactive role in shaping team processes, best practices, and organizational development, often contributing to Communities of Practice (CoPs).
Strategic Implementation: Translates requirements into strategic implementation plans and evaluates solution options, including basic cost-benefit analysis.
Performance Monitoring & Execution Oversight: Monitor the status of the "managed service" and larger execution teams to ensure testing is progressing according to the strategy.
Stakeholder Transparency: Design and distribute executive-level dashboards and reports that communicate regression status, risks, and "Go/No-Go" readiness to all stakeholders.
Project & Product Management: Manages quality assurance activities on more complex projects or across multiple products within a domain.
Ambiguity & Interdependencies: Handles ambiguous requirements and evaluates solution impacts considering both immediate and longer-term implications within the domain. Ensures alignment with broader goals, manages interdependencies between related processes, and navigates intricate stakeholder environments.
Scope Identification: Partner with local SMEs to capture new "Product Increments." Ensure that as the S/4HANA template grows, the local site’s specific critical paths are updated and protected.
Domain & Technical Expertise: Demonstrates a strong understanding of the business domain, related testing technologies, and their interdependencies.
Analytical Application: Can independently apply tools, principles, concepts, and techniques related to requirements, data, usability, and quality analysis. Effectively handles interdependencies to improve overall efficiency and effectiveness.
Automation Steering: Drive the mandate to automate the majority of the scope, ensuring the regression engine is scalable as more sites go live.
Audit SME: Serve as the primary point of contact for internal and external audits regarding the Regression and ASPIRE methodologies.
Experience independently managing end-to-end quality assurance tasks and leading testing efforts for complex features or projects.
Proven track record of managing relationships with a diverse range of cross-functional stakeholders on medium to large-sized engagements and acting as a trusted advisor.
Global ERP & Regression Leadership: Proven experience acting as a strategic architect and managing end-to-end regression strategies across large-scale, complex enterprise landscapes (such as DIA and SAP S/4HANA/ASPIRE).
Site Deployment & Onboarding: Demonstrated experience onboarding local live sites into a centralized testing framework and partnering with local SMEs to capture new product increments and critical paths.
Vendor & Service Management: Experience providing execution oversight and monitoring the performance of managed services and large-scale execution teams.
Strong capability to independently apply tools like Solution Manager and techniques related to quality requirements, testing methodologies, and process analysis.
Ability to analyze technology fit for quality tools, evaluate immediate and long-term solution impacts, and design advanced test frameworks.
Automation Steering: Strong technical aptitude in driving automation mandates to scale regression engines across expanding product templates.
Methodology & Compliance (CSV): Deep understanding of structured test methodologies and full compliance workflows with Quality/Computer System Validation (CSV) standards.
Reporting & Analytics: Ability to design, build, and distribute executive-level dashboards that track regression status, risks, and "Go/No-Go" readiness.
Ability to champion accountability by example, drive quality assurance process improvement initiatives, and mentor junior team members.
Change Evangelism & Education: Strong communication and facilitation skills to educate ITOT and Business Capability Owners, shifting the perception of QA from a bottleneck to a business protector.
Audit Defense: Capability to serve as the primary subject matter expert (SME) and point of contact for internal and external audits regarding regression and delivery methodologies.
Process Engineering: Proactive approach to gap remediation, with the ability to build and improve weak processes during handovers between deployment and production support.
A healthier future drives us to innovate. Together, more than 100’000 employees across the globe are dedicated to advance science, ensuring everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Our efforts result in more than 26 million people treated with our medicines and over 30 billion tests conducted using our Diagnostics products. We empower each other to explore new possibilities, foster creativity, and keep our ambitions high, so we can deliver life-changing healthcare solutions that make a global impact.
Let’s build a healthier future, together.
Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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