Quality Manager

Zuid-Holland  ‐ Onsite
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We are currently searching for a Quality Manager to work in Den Haag, The Netherlands for 2 months plus extensions. This is a fantastic contract opportunity for a large multi-national client.

The ideal candidate must have the following skills:

DESCRIPTION OF THE SERVICES:
The Quality Manager will be required to:
Undertake quality assurance activities on various allocated projects.
Perform Quality Assurance tasks such as reviewing and reporting with respect to:
1) project management products and processes covering: initiation, planning, risk and issue
management, and project closure;
2) facilitation of specialist products, review and assurance.
Review on a monthly basis the project highlight report and create in addition the quality
assurance highlight report, subsequently submit this report to the project board within the
set deadlines.
Perform coaching and bi-laterals with the assigned Project Manager.
Provide contribution to the Quality Status on the assigned project for monthly reporting at
Vice President level.
Contribute to the revision and improvement of existing quality procedures and artefacts on
a quarterly basis via meetings and workshops as applicable.

DELIVERABLES:
The Contractor shall execute the following activities and deliver the following products for the
assigned sample project.
During the Intake of the project:
create a quality mandate to be agreed with Project Board.
review the project brief and create a quality assurance start-up report
create a QA monthly highlight report.
During the initiation of the project:
review and report on the Quality status of Project Initiation Document including product
descriptions, cost/budget, stage plans, risks, architecture conformity approval and
resources resulting in a quality assurance initiation report
create a QA monthly highlight report.
Deliver a stage gate review and report.
During the execution of the project:
provide updates to the quality register
review the detailed plan, the product descriptions, risk/issue/, change management
deliver quality assurance stage gate review reports
deliver interim health check reports
During the closure of the project:
review the stage end report, Handover documentation, release of budget and resources,
stakeholder approvals and closure of the Issue and risk logs
Create a Quality Assurance Project closure report.

During all stages:
Provide the Quality Status on the assigned project for monthly reporting at Vice President
level.
Produce Interim health check Quality reports referring to the Quality status of Project
Products and Processes in preparation for project board meetings.
Work with the Project manager, but report and make the necessary recommendations to
the Project Board.
Contribute to the revision and improvement of existing quality procedures and artefacts on
an ongoing basis, providing input for a Quarterly review.

TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS:
Very good Knowledge of Quality Management Systems and related quality standards (such as ISO
9000 series).
Excellent knowledge of standard Project Management Methodologies (eg PRINCE 2).
Excellent knowledge of software development methodologies.
Very good knowledge about IT Governance Frameworks (eg CobiT ).
Working knowledge of related industry quality standards (ISO, IEEE, ISTQB (ISEB), ideally with qualifications.

Specific experience with:
- Project Management. (3-5 years previous experience as a Project Manager - minimum)
- Project planning tools (eg MS Project).
- Configuration Management and Version Control.
Familiar with enterprise desktop applications: IBM Lotus Notes, MS Office
Fluent in spoken and written English. Experience in technical documentation creation.

Desirable
Working knowledge of Scrum software development approach is an advantage.
Knowledge of the OGC P3M3 Maturity model is an advantage.
Knowledge of the Software development maturity models (eg CMM or CMMi) is an advantage.
Additional Knowledge about Intellectual Property and application software is an advantage.
Test management tools (eg HP Quality Center).
Automation tools (eg HP Quicktest Professional and HP LoadRunner.)

If you are interested in this position, please respond within 24 hours with a short motivation letter and your CV in Word format so MBA can contact you.

Michael Bailey International is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.
Start date
23/04/2012
Duration
2 months
From
MBA - Amsterdam
Published at
27.03.2012
Project ID:
339321
Contract type
Freelance
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