VP, Quality Assurance

Description
Company: Oak Street Health
Title: Vice President, Software Quality Assurance
Company Description
The mission of Oak Street Health is to rebuild healthcare as it should be.
We are a rapidly growing, innovative company of community-based healthcare centers delivering higher quality health and wellness care that improves outcomes, manages medical costs and provides an unmatched experience for adults on Medicare.
The Oak Street model integrates outstanding clinical expertise, technology, and teamwork to deliver improved care quality and cost savings. These cost savings are then reinvested into care in our communities, creating a virtuous cycle of improving community health.
We are a national organization serving over 100,000 patients and we are growing rapidly . We are a diverse team of care providers, service team members, technologists, community outreach experts, business professionals, and more -- all dedicated to our Oaky Values and motivated by our mission. We're looking forward to getting to know you!
For more information, visit www.oakstreethealth.com .
Role Description:
We are currently looking for a talented, experienced Software Test (QA) leader with solid leadership/communication skills and a passion for testing software for our growing organization. The Vice President of Software Quality Assurance is responsible for working with leadership and staff to build up a core software QA practice, including resources, infrastructure and processes (automated and manual) that align with organizational goals around quality of technology delivery and meet defined metrics and outcomes. The VP works collaboratively with all levels of leadership and departments to develop, build and maintain testing strategy, activities, processes, and infrastructure. They will work closely with teams to engage and manage test deliverables, allocate resources, and ensure quality of testing for Oak Street Health platforms.
Core Responsibilities:

• Overall leadership for software quality across the enterprise
• Lead multiple applications and multiple testing teams
• Participate in scope definition, requirements analysis, functional and technical design, application build, product configuration, unit testing, and production deployment.
• Provide technical expertise and ownership in the diagnosis and resolution of issues, including the determination and provision of workaround solution or escalation to service owners.
• Work with the Development team, QA and DevOps engineers and Product owners in both agile and waterfall methodologies.
• Document and interact with business and technology stakeholders / team members as necessary.
• Provide testing strategy and leadership including the implementation of automated testing frameworks
• Define and implement metrics and reporting at all phases of SDLC to track quality of software product delivery
• Supervise growing QA team on testing practices to ensure rapid and accurate completion of assigned tasks
• Partner with technical team to bring releases to life and ensure they meet our standards
• Collaborate closely with key stakeholders to explain and verify defects
• Other duties, as assigned

What are we looking for?
We're looking for motivated individuals with:

• Strong hands-on, leadership skill, analytical problem-solving skills, quick to learn and adapt
• Self-motivated, creative problem solver, organized, collaborative with excellent communication skills
• Application testing experience with hands on designing, testing complex applications leading into zero/minimum prod issues. Demonstrated ability to translate business requirements into test cases and through to implementation.
• Deep understanding of design principles, Agile practices, QA theory and Automation practices and tools.
• Experience with programming languages such as Java, C# and test automation frameworks such as Selenium
• Excellent Communication, Time Management, Reporting and Analytical Skills
• Experience with application testing in cloud environments
• Experience with workflow tools and rules engines/processing is a plus
• Use of standards for automation testing, documentation, release and configuration management and expertise in CI/CD.
• Strong team ethics and team player.
• Focus and desire to deliver high quality service.

What does being "Oaky" look like?

• Radiating positive energy
• Assuming good intentions
• Creating an unmatched patient experience
• Driving clinical excellence
• Taking ownership and delivering results
• Being scrappy

Why Oak Street?
Oak Street Health offers our coworkers the opportunity to be at the forefront of a revolution in healthcare, as well as:

• Collaborative and energetic culture
• Fast-paced and innovative environment
• Competitive benefits including paid vacation and sick time, generous 401K match with immediate vesting, and health benefits

Oak Street Health is an equal opportunity employer. We embrace diversity and encourage all interested readers to apply to oakstreethealth.com/careers.