Lean Excellence Agent

HARMAN’s engineers and designers are creative, purposeful and agile. As part of this team, you’ll combine your technical expertise with innovative ideas to help drive cutting-edge solutions in the car, enterprise and connected ecosystem. Every day, you will push the boundaries of creative design, and HARMAN is committed to providing you with the opportunities, innovative technologies and resources to build a successful career.

A Career at HARMAN

As a technology leader that is rapidly on the move, HARMAN is filled with people who are focused on making life better. Innovation, inclusivity and teamwork are a part of our DNA. When you add that to the challenges we take on and solve together, you’ll discover that at HARMAN you can grow, make a difference and be proud of the work you do everyday.

Lean Excellence Agent

Qualification & Experience

B.E/B. Tech in Computer Science, Electronics or Electrical Engineering/ with an excellent academic track record. Overall experience is 8 to 12 years
- Minimum 6 years of relevant experience as a Software Quality Assurance / Process consultant and roles in SEPG
- Experience in digital transformation and preferably certifications Sofware Quality Assurance and Agile methodology / Frameworks
- Knowledge of other software development, QMS, testing and release mgmt (e.g. Audits, QA signoffs, Feature and Test-Driven Development, Continuous Release/Continuous Deployment)

Experience

8-12 years

Job Location

Bengaluru

Job Responsibilities
- Provide leadership on QA & Agile practices for the project and track the quality against schedule of activities & deliverables
- Should lead process modelling and definitions for supporting initiatives or continuous improvement in ways of working.
- Help institutionalize a disciplined, rigorous development, problem solving, RCA and QA processes in line with the SAFe framework
- Should have knowledge and experience in metrics system across various tenets of Teams, Programs, Quality and Releases.
- Help prepare status reports, metrics to measure the quality of the project deliverables
- Should have skills and experience in facilitating Agile/Projects teams across various ceremonies, cadence and milestones.
- Report defects in a timely fashion and work to manage defects until issues are resolved. Work with development team get fixes are prioritized.
- Ability to demonstrate interpersonal and team building skills working with technical and non-technical individuals
- Develop a roadmap for building needed QA expertise. Establish and evolve formal QA processes across the teams/units.
- Identification and evaluation of processes along with Setting up the priorities of process improvement in projects
- Coach and consult with other teams on realizing the QA practices and development methodologies (SAFe, Scrum) within their teams
- Ensure structured feedback is provided to the development teams and ensure the work is carried out in accordance with the agreed project schedule and quality requirements;
- Implementation of strategy for software engineering processes, practices ensuring stakeholders, onsite coordinators are on board and measuring progress through KPIs.
- Drives process improvement objectives, specific goals, measures, and metrics and ensure they are established. Ensure that an adequate plan is developed and executed
- Spend time with the team / team leadership to understand their needs, problems, and wants
- Help start up a successful Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) Program
- Help the team set up tooling to track their work, Train the team on Agile & QA essential concepts
- Facilitate knowledge sharing between teams and develop relevant training programs.
- Should have skills and experience in design, development, and maintenance of Quality Management system, catering to various quality standards and frameworks - like ISO 9001, CMMI, ISO 27001, Scrum & SAFe
- Should have knowledge and experience in planning, scheduling and conducting Internal Quality Audits.
- Knowledge and experience in Quality practices and Agile Frameworks (SAFe, Scrum)

Additional SWS specific:

- consolidate, report, as well as contribute to define and monitor operational performance metrices in scope of SWS
- contribute to assess excellence maturity in scope of SWS
- contribute to define a governance tools framework in scope of SWS
- organize knowledge sharing communities for process, governance and governance tools in scope of SWS and other interested parties
- monitor the state-of-the-art of process frameworks, governance concepts, governance tools and related standards
- promote lean philosophy and practices in scope of SWS and other related parties
- support to communicate relevant changes in scope of SWS

What Will You Get To Learn.
- You will get chance to work across projects in multiple stages of Agile transformation.
- Manage end to end QA responsibilities of projects / Solutions
- You will get trained and will get good exposure to renewable and env