QA (Quality Assurance) Manager

Role Summary

The Quality Assurance Manager is a leadership role responsible for defining and driving the overall quality strategy for the organization's products. This individual leads a team of QA engineers and testers, establishing processes and standards to ensure that all software products meet business requirements, are user-friendly, and are released with the highest level of quality and reliability.

Responsibilities

• QA Strategy & Leadership: Develop, implement, and manage the overall QA strategy, methodology, and processes across the organization
• Team Management: Lead, mentor, and grow a team of QA engineers, including task assignment, performance reviews, and professional development
• Test Planning: Oversee the creation of comprehensive test plans, test cases, and test scripts for functional, regression, performance, and user acceptance testing (UAT)
• Process Improvement: Continuously evaluate and improve QA processes, incorporating automation, new tools, and best practices to increase efficiency and test coverage
• Stakeholder Communication: Act as the primary point of contact for all quality-related matters, providing regular reporting on test progress, defect metrics, and product quality to senior management and project stakeholders
• Risk Management: Identify potential risks to product quality and timeline and develop mitigation strategies
• Tool & Resource Management: Research, recommend, and manage QA tools and technologies (e.g., test management suites like Jira, TestRail; automation tools like Selenium, Cypress)
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with Product Management, Development, and DevOps teams to ensure quality is built into the product from the earliest stages of development (shift-left testing)
• Release Governance: Define and enforce quality gates and criteria that must be met for a product to be released to production

Requirements

• Experience: 8+ years in software quality assurance, with at least 2+ years in a QA leadership or management role. Data quality assurance experience is highly preferred
• Deep understanding of software development life cycle (SDLC) and QA methodologies (Agile, Scrum)
• Proven experience with test automation frameworks and tools
• Strong knowledge of software testing types, techniques, and best practices
• Experience with API testing tools (e.g., Postman)
• Basic understanding of programming/scripting is a plus
• Soft Skills: Exceptional leadership and people management skills. Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making abilities. Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills to effectively collaborate with technical and non-technical teams

Nice to Have

• Life science experience is preferred
• Data product or project experience is preferred

Benefits

• Grants for fitness and communication
• Healthy, free, provided snacks

Veeva’s headquarters is located in the San Francisco Bay Area with offices in more than 15 countries around the world.

Veeva is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin or ancestry, age, disability, marital status, pregnancy, protected veteran status, protected genetic information, political affiliation, or any other characteristics protected by local laws, regulations, or ordinances.