Senior Level SW Quality Metrics Engagement (San Jose, CA)

Expected Duration: 3 months

Responsibilities

M Squared will provide thought leadership working with an established software quality data team and will leverage a strong engineering and/or mathematics background and passion for collecting and analyzing SW quality and process metrics.

Primary responsibilities in this engagement will include:

• Analysis of voluminous data from numerous sources (defects per hour, reliability curves, bugs, overall test health, customer-found defect percentages, etc.)
• Develop predictive indicators on how current quality statistics will translate into field/customer performance
• Documented assessment of “as is” status and/or hypothesis on what is happening
• Formulation of “to be” state and recommendations on what should be done next
• SW quality modeling based on in-depth knowledge of in SW development process and of metrics used to assess code quality
• Development of solution(s) that bring fresh thinking to our client’s team

Deliverables

• Documentation of “As Is” and “To Be” assessments
• SW quality modeling
• Solutions recommendations

Value to the Client

M Squared will achieve success in this engagement by providing fresh thinking on software quality data, metrics and processes to optimize SW Quality.

Industry Experience

• High Tech industry experience with SW quality leaders; non-client specific
• Significant experience in the software development arena coupled with engineering, mathematics or statistics educational background

Functional Experience

• Exceptional knowledge of statistics and statisticals methodologies
• Highly skilled in Excel (including macro creation and Visual Basic)
• Demonstrated experience with bug query tools
• General knowledge of using web tools and posting data to web-sites (web-site creation and modification is a plus)

Personality/Other Attributes

• Demonstrated ability to explain complex topics to non-specialists
• Demonstrated proactive team member
• Deals well with change of direction and focus
• Commits to deliverables and is timely in their delivery
• Quick study with high energy and stamina...it's the culture

Email resume to: nmilitsa [at] msquared.com (replace [at] with @)

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