Practice Lead – Quality Engineering

Practice Lead – Quality Engineering Quality Engineering is an emerging practice at Technovert and we are seeking for Leader roles who can rapidly grow this practice. As a practice lead, you will deliver consulting and strategy services to clients that are looking to establish better software engineering and quality engineering practices. You will be leading teams of QE/testing personnel performing both functional and automated testing, working directly with senior clients, while providing thought leadership to define and implement testing and test automation strategies. Additionally, you will be developing assets for the practice, participating in business development activities and leading people as part of your core responsibilities. Responsibilities You are responsible and accountable for building the practice, driving quality, sales, recruitment, account management as follows Building the Practice - Drive overall growth of the practice right from business development, talent development to delivering the solution. Talent Development: Hire passionate and right mix of talent. Coach, guide and mentor consultants and leaders and build a high performance team and awesome culture. Build center of excellence - Build an innovation center, design frameworks and develop new methodologies and intellectual property. Train people on latest automation practices, test strategies and tools. Sales Enablement - Identifying market needs, design campaigns, produce quality collateral and enable sales teams to drive new business opportunities. Engagement Management - Manage engagement risk, project economics including planning and budgeting, defining deliverable frameworks Thought Leadership - Research and identify latest and future trends in the industry and share thought provoking ideas and solution with internal teams and to the world at large. Active in the technology community through various channels including conferences, meetups, blogging, etc. Who Can Apply: 8+ years of all round experience in a consulting environment Prior coding and architecture experience in C#/Java etc. Deep technical understanding and ability to design and architect solutions independently Experience in all phases of a project lifecycle, from inception through deployment Expert business development skills and experience working with executives and C-level clients Expert communication (verbal and written) Expert in project and business operations - (e.g., invoicing, SOWs, margins, utilization) Skilled at managing multiple clients Excellent mentoring and leadership skills