| What I do
Quality Assurance Managers are responsible for overseeing the
quality of an organization's products and the activity of the
department and staff. QA Managers work to maintain continuous
development, implementation, and maintenance to achieve a system
of quality.
My job consists of scheduling testing deadlines, understanding
requirements, defining test matrices, following through until
project completion, and communicating the results, issues, and
progress with the engineering team. Defining the scheduled release
to production on qualified firmware and to exceed expectations
with the entire process. I work to keep the lab functional as
continuous maintenance is required to support the vast amount of
products. I oversee that successful testing is completed for 20+
products on both hardware and software and I am the interface
between internal development and customer facing teams. I work to
complete a full spectrum of testing for a product's life-cyle that
can span from a unit test, to a regression test, all they way
through to a system test. Creating and maintaining test plans for
each product's life-cycle is an extremely important task to
capture bugs before they make it into production software or
hardware. Automation is also a key factor in achieving a system of
quality. Writing automation for repetitive tasks prevents user
errors and guarantees efficiency as it allows the team to work on
additional tasks.