To get the best candidate experience, please consider applying for a maximum of 3 roles within 12 months to ensure you are not duplicating efforts. Job Category Customer Success Job Details About Salesforce We're Salesforce, the Customer Company, inspiring the future of business with AI+ Data +CRM. Leading with our core values, we help companies across every industry blaze new trails and connect with customers in a whole new way. And, we empower you to be a Trailblazer, too - driving your performance and career growth, charting new paths, and improving the state of the world. If you believe in business as the greatest platform for change and in companies doing well and doing good - you've come to the right place. MANAGER, QA: Manager is responsible for ensuring the success of our customer engagement by effectively managing a team of QA engineers (Salesforce QA) along with actively involving a project execution & helping in process alignment & maintaining Salesforce standards. Handling a group of leads, engineers & associates around 15+ members. This role involves direct customer engagements, career development of individuals & project management processes. Apart from day-to-day activities, the candidate is expected to be helping leadership in strategic planning to grow the team, run projects of organisational importance, guide / mentor next cadre of leadership as per Salesforce values, while being a face of organisation to the wider world. The candidate is expected to be independent, self-motivated, proactive, results-oriented & ability to define and provide a high level of customer engagement through the delivery of world-class QA services. Location: Hyderabad, Bengaluru & Jaipur Work Hours: GDC supports client across different timezones and it's expected from the role to adhere to our core value of customer centricity. Experience/Skills Required Masters Degree or equivalent relevant experience required. Experience will be evaluated based on the core competencies for the role (e.g. extracurricular leadership roles, QA experience, Coach, Mentor & work experience, etc.) Overall work-experience of 10+ years, Strong people management expertise of at least 5+ years in QA management roles. Strong Experience in managing QA professionals. Experience with QA best practices and procedures. Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Strong team player with a result-oriented attitude and a keen focus on enhancing customer experience. Continuously raises the bar on what defines customer service delivery. Excellent situational awareness in handling objections in dynamic customer environments. Leading cross-functional collaboration across global teams Self-motivated, takes initiative, assumes ownership and runs programs with minimal supervision Drive stakeholder engagement across peers and senior management Ability to address and effectively engage large audiences and hold their interest Strong Executive presence and excellent convincing skills; ability to hold own point of view in tough conversations Provide guidance, mentoring, training and delegate responsibilities to managers enabling their professional growth and development Ability to successfully communicate and coordinate with departments across the organisation including development, Consulting, CSM, BA, Program Management, and Product Management Strong Escalation management experience with multiple stakeholders including customers and product teams Demonstrate strong work ethic and advanced organisational skills Ability to develop and deliver creative solutions for complex situations Ability to attract, hire and retain high-performing professionals Ability to work on competing priorities under tight timelines and delivery pressures. Analytical bent of mind to understand data and derive actionable insights Detailed Role & Responsibilities Manage a QA team to achieve customer objectives including the attainment of targets for customer satisfaction, employee satisfaction, service levels, & project deadlines. Set team goals in alignment with Global objectives. Assist direct reports in the definition and attainment of individual goals Manage at least one customer engagement directly & simultaneous manage a group of individual contributors. Ensure that direct reports have the resources, information, and processes necessary to deliver effective QA solutions to our customers Ensure the delivery of high-quality technical and soft-skills training for direct reports Deliver performance reviews for all direct reports and provide regular feedback on performance in terms of agreed upon performance and employee development goals Effectively represent the QA practice on entire CSG group to deliver on organisational objectives. Manage workflows and schedules for direct reports and ensure adequate workload coverage Deliver regular reports that provide qualitative and quantitative descriptions of business performance Develop and maintain QA procedures and policies Advocate for QA practice and define ways to continually add value to the customer experience Serve as a manager, mentor, knowledge resource, and escalation point for support agents; Build credibility and trust within the QA group Foster and facilitate the professional growth and development of team members Empower and install confidence in team members to enable them grow Flexibility to work in staggered shifts based on customer engagement. Take up and deliver on any other responsibilities as assigned from time to time by reporting manager & leadership Accommodations If you require assistance due to a disability applying for open positions please submit a request via this Accommodations Request Form. 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