Technical Program Manager

• Design, build and maintain the project plan including scope, schedule, budget and risk management.
• Lead the gathering of product requirements and project scope in a holistic manner across multiple teams or business functions.
• Monitor progress to plan and design a recovery strategy if project deviates from baseline plan.
• Assemble and publish effective status reports able to serve a variety of audiences from project team member to Executive.
• Design and deliver Executive-level presentations to support the governance process for Product Lifecycle Management (PLM).
• Design and run effective program-level meetings to communicate status and coordinate efforts.
• Collaborate with peers, managers and team members across the organization to solve problems, develop plans and coordinate work
• Promotes and encourages collaboration and transparency and builds trusting relationships between business, delivery and other entities within the organization.
• Plays an instrumental role in the organizations Agile transformation, acts as a change agent and shows strong leadership skills with a positive and collaborative attitude
• Developing test cycle plan, schedule, and timeline.
• Define project scope by prioritizing features/Platform system under test considering the Product Direction Letter, program priorities, and the test strategy and policy.
• Build, manage the product backlog, and keep product backlog transparent to the team to ensure it is understood.
• Leads the initiative of creating Test Epics for the features/Platform System as part of the preparation for the PI Planning meeting and continues it during the Team Breakout Session.
• Participating in Scrum events and collaborating with the team Conduct retrospectives on completed projects to support process, policy and tool-set improvements
• Evaluating feedback at each iteration.
• Hardware Configuration Management
• Define and specify the required vehicle variants to support the scope of the test project
• Plan, procure and maintain vehicle components including surrogate, prototype, and instrumented parts
• Analyze bills of materials of target program and donor programs to identify surrogate parts, minimize ordering of unnecessary parts, and exclude simulated component
• Procure and coordinate hardware updates
• Software Configuration Management Define
• test cycles in line with software release schedules, the software change management process, and prototype software delivery
• Maintain obtaining ARXML file and communicate the updated file to the modelling and interface team.
• Perform software updates
• Communicate software release information to the test team
• Communication Management Main point of contact for the test organization and the electrical program management team
• Monitor and report progress of the test project execution, software maturity, and vehicle hardware and software defects (All P0, P1 defects should be discussed in Program Scrum meeting)
• Regular analysis to Jira dashboard to understand progress and program overall health
• Follow up\Manage incident lifecycle to ensure timely incident disposition.

Software Testing - Technical Program & Project Management for Software Quality Assurance.

Experience Required:

6 years in Automotive Software Dev/Quality

3 years in Program Mgmt., Expert in Proj Mgr

Education Required:

Bachelor’s Degree