Chemical Abstracts Service, a division of the American Chemical Society, has an immediate opening in its Information Technology division for a Manager, Online Services Assurance. The candidate will provide leadership and manage the department responsible for product and content testing, quality assurance, customer software support team, SciFinder operations, STN and Web services operations. The department is comprised of 45-50 staff and 20-25 contractors reporting to this position through 4 frontline managers.
Candidates must have:
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer science, mathematics, or a scientific field with 7 to 10 years of related experience in the information technology industry.
• Management experience is required (3 to 5 years’ experience).
• Software testing and quality assurance experience on large applications (3 to 5 years’ experience).
• Knowledge of automated testing and software deployment in a multi-tiered architecture, including an awareness of existing and emerging technologies.
• Demonstrated experience in handling large scale project management in a complex IT environment (3 to 5 years’ experience).
• Ability to support the development of strategic plans and translate them into action plans to meet operational objectives.
• Demonstrated experience in selecting, coaching, training and managing staff performance.
• Demonstrated leadership, communication and interpersonal skills, ability to work well with all levels and functions of the organization.
• Knowledge of CAS content and products is highly desirable.
• Understanding of the primary or secondary publishing market and competition is highly desirable.
Chemical Abstracts Service offers a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package, including a generous vacation, medical, dental, vision insurance, and employee savings and retirement plans. For consideration, please e-mail resume and salary requirements to jobs@cas.org.
For more information about CAS, refer to our web page at www.cas.org. An Equal Opportunity Employer.
Keywords: QA testing, web applications, applications development, engineering support, project management, technical manager