IT Client Support Manager II Contract

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Location: Raleigh, NC

Essential Job Duties:
The position incumbent will lead the Quality Assurance team and will be responsible for all aspects related DRMS Project management including but not limited to defining functional specifications, testing protocols, and project documentation. This position will serve as the liaison with the DRMS Development, Support, and Marketing teams to ensure the successful release of new products and services.

The Project and Quality Assurance Manager will provide team leadership and oversight of the software quality assurance and software assembly and distribution processes for hosted, desktop, web, and mobile systems. This position carries significant responsibility to maintain the quality and flow of software solutions to many internal customers and systems as well as external customers including over 12,000 dairy producers and related farm operations, consultants, and allied industries.

Duties include:

• Conduct weekly meetings to review assignments and share relevant techniques and processes
• Inspire and equip testing staff to perform effective and efficient analysis of software quality
• Independently and directly supervise the testing team (permanent and temporary employees), including coordinating and approving coverage and leave; performance appraisals; and recruitment
• Manage and Perform Software Testing
  • Review customer requirements, create test cases, execute testing plans, and test applications
  • Manage and perform software testing services for new releases and regression testing
  • Automate repetitive testing when possible
• Project Management
  • Lead specific projects as assigned by management
  • Coordinate resources to reach established milestones
  • Communicate effectively with team members, internal stakeholders, and external customers
  • Defining functional specification, testing protocols, and provide project documentation
• Customer Communication, Task Assignment and Follow-up
  • Oversee customer portfolio of application and service requests and act as liaison between software development, support and marketing staff and external customers
  • Lead weekly meetings of the Change Review Board
  • Enable team to establish priorities and assignments
  • Maintain task tracking system
  • Assist in enforcing check-in and documentation procedures
  • Ensure developer and software enhancement tasks and deadlines are met
  • Facilitate collaboration and coordination between the quality assurance team and the developers
  • Coordinate exchanges between the quality assurance team, developers, and documentation specialists
• Software Assembly, Testing, Distribution
  • Assemble major releases and maintenance upgrades of DART, PocketDairy, and other systems as established by management
  • Perform or manage associated testing
  • Distribute assembled software or modules by electronic updates or media distribution
  • Coordinate and/or communicate with the marketing staff as appropriate

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Other Work/Responsibilities:

• Processing System and Guided Testing:
  • Propose changes and enhancements to the processing systems and guide efforts to test the modules as they are moved into production
  • Detailed knowledge of the core processing algorithms, complex file formats and SQL databases is needed and ensure that the Quality Assurance team quickly provides feedback to developers.
  • Manage the Promotion Process for the four system instances: Test, Staging, Production and ProductionView through which all software is forced to progress to full implementation.
  • Ensure the Processing system meets and compliance with National Quality Assurance guidelines and industry requirements.
• Develop New Testing Software for the QA Team:
  • Manages several software tools for regression testing and other QA processes. These include how to test and confirm the accuracy of automated loading into SQL table for incoming data files from herds, outgoing files, transaction files between DRMS software and on farm vendors and the files sent to the Council on Dairy Cattle Breeding for computation of genomic indices.
• Leads Software Assessment:
  • Leadership of the weekly Change Review Board that reviews software problems, discusses solutions, sets priorities, and makes assignments to Dev, QA, Accounting, and Support team members.
  • Manage weekly meetings of an Interface CRB team to focus on changes in the DRMS software that interfaces with 34 external vendors to collect sensor outputs for milk weights, conductivity, temperature, pedometers, pH, lot numbers and others.

Minimum Experience/Education:

• Master’s degree and at least one year of relevant experience OR
• Bachelor’s degree with at least two years of relevant experience OR
• An equivalent combination of education, training and relevant experience

• For management-level roles, also include with the above requirements 1-2 years of supervisory experience

Required Qualifications:

• Ability to lead quality assurance staff to meet expectations
• Knowledge of DRMS products and services, systems requirements, dependencies, schedules, and staff-member responsibilities and job functions in all departments
• Ability to design and implement effective quality assurance systems and strategies
• Ability to manage and implement project management systems
• Ability to consult with management and internal staff members to assess requirements
• Ability to diagnose problems and identify solutions
• Ability to provide documentation and other materials needed to support other staff

Preferred Qualifications:

• Exceptional organizational and project management skills
• Experience with project management software
• Excellent communicator and documentation skills
• Thorough understand of MS Office products and MS SQL
• Knowledge of the dairy industry is highly recommended but not required

Required License or Certification:
N/A

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