Senior IT QA & Testing Program Manager (Hybrid - Chicago)

The Judge Group; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 83,000 - 152,000; Full time

Job summary

The Judge Group is seeking a Senior Project Manager to lead large-scale testing and QA initiatives. This contract role is hybrid, based in Chicago, requiring collaboration with cross-functional IT teams, business partners, and vendors to meet project objectives and success criteria.

You will oversee projects from conception to implementation, establish timelines and scope with project leadership, and use standard PM tools to plan, estimate, and report progress.

Qualifications

• 5+ years managing QA testing projects.
• Strong understanding of testing workflows, performance integration, regression testing.
• Hands-on QA experience is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Oversee the project from conception through implementation, and may work with cross-functional teams and other areas of IT, business partners, vendors, and end users to achieve the needed project objectives and defined success criteria
• Collaborates with Project Sponsor and project team to establish project timelines and scope, in cooperation with project leadership
• Utilizes the project management framework and standard tools to facilitate project planning, estimating, and scheduling work, and to supports periodic and frequent monitoring and reporting of project status, progress, and performance
• Manage large scale enterprise software testing projects and portfolios

Skills

QA testing

Project management

Stakeholder communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

The Judge Group is seeking a Senior Project Manager to lead large-scale testing and QA initiatives. This contract role is hybrid, based in Chicago, requiring collaboration with cross-functional IT teams, business partners, and vendors to meet project objectives and success criteria.

You will oversee projects from conception to implementation, establish timelines and scope with project leadership, and use standard PM tools to plan, estimate, and report progress.