Testing Project Manager

JOB DESCRIPTION

We are the movers of the world and the makers of the future. We get up every day, roll up our sleeves and build a better world -- together. At Ford, we're all a part of something bigger than ourselves. Are you ready to change the way the world moves?

In this position...

The people of Ford Motor Credit Company have a 60-year commitment to helping put people behind the wheels of great Ford and Lincoln vehicles. By partnering with dealerships, we provide financing, personalized service, and professional expertise to five thousand dealers and more than four million customers in over 100 countries around the world. The software product organization within Ford Credit seeks to deeply understand our customer so that we may provide digital solutions that improve their ability to finance and own Ford and Lincoln vehicles.

Ford Credit is looking for a Testing Project Manager specializing in day-to-day operations of "Quality & Testing Management" team. You will help teams work on predictability and quality while supporting engineering and operational excellence. The primary customers for the role are engineering leaders, product managers, developers, and analytics teams within Ford Credit. The candidate will directly support "Test & Quality Lead" responsible for overall outcomes from the team and be the voice of the team in many executive forums alongside him/her. The candidate will have a deep understanding of Lean-Agile program management practices (including SAFe), DevOps, and SRE principles and practices.

RESPONSIBILITIES

What you'll do...

Creation & Maintenance of the project plan for the "Testing and Quality Management" team.

Pro-active tracking and reporting on the team milestones.

Reporting for the team scorecard/status/dashboard.

Tracking, Reporting & Resolving for team Risks, Issues, Action Items and Decisions in collaboration with the Team Lead.

Establish quality gates and quality metrics for the program.

Tracking and reporting of Quality management metrices.

Influence "data driven" decision making by the stakeholders.

Other typical project management responsibilities.

In Addition, your role will also directly and significantly influence following:

Strategy deployment and delivery of critical programs while ensuring the alignment of business and engineering goals.

Supporting the teams to collaboratively drive continuous improvement and create a learning organization to enable speed to market and foster innovation.

QUALIFICATIONS

You'll have...

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or relevant area of study, or equivalent work experience

10+ years' experience in managing testing focused teams and lead project and program management.

Extensive experience using, managing, and supporting "Testing & Quality Management" teams with Agile program management tools, such as Jira, Rally, Confluence, etc.

Extensive experience of generating quality metrices and present them to executive forums to drive decision making

Experience using reporting & analytical tools like PowerBI, Looker, BigQuery, JIRA etc.

Awareness of test automation, test frameworks and testing tools.

Even better, you may have...

Master's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business Administration, or related area

Certification in Project or Program Management such as PMP, etc.

Certification in Lean-Agile practices, such as Certified Scrum Master or SAFe.

Experience managing complex programs from quality and testing management perspective with solutions relying on cloud-native technologies.

12+ years' experience in testing focused teams and lead project and program management.

You may not check every box, or your experience may look a little different from what we've outlined, but if you think you can bring value to Ford Motor Company, we encourage you to apply!

As an established global company, we offer the benefit of choice. You can choose what your Ford future will look like: will your story span the globe, or keep you close to home? Will your career be a deep dive into what you love, or a series of new teams and new skills? Will you be a leader, a changemaker, a technical expert, a culture builder...or all of the above? No matter what you choose, we offer a work life that works for you, including:

• Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage

• Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care and more

• Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, and more

• Vehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases

• Tuition assistance

• Established and active employee resource groups

• Paid time off for individual and team community service

• A generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year's Day

• Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.

This position is a leadership level 6.

For more information on salary and benefits, click here: https://fordcareers.co/LL6HTHD

Visa sponsorship is available for this position.

Candidates for positions with Ford Motor Company must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to a culturally diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, age, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status or protected veteran status. In the United States, if you need a reasonable accommodation for the online application process due to a disability, please call 1-888-336-0660.

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