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Where an ICT quality assurance manager can go next

5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role an ICT quality assurance manager already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.

ICT quality assurance managers establish and operate an ICT quality approach through quality management systems, in compliance with internal and external standards and the organisation's culture. They ensure that the management controls are correctly implemented to safeguard asset, data integrity and operations. They focus on the achievement of quality goals, including the maintenance of the external certification according to quality standards and monitor statistics to forecast quality outcomes.

Also known as IT quality assurance manager, ICT quality manager, ICT principal testing manager, ICT quality assurance managers, ICT test manager, principal test manager.

Professionals 39 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: digital games tester, 35%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
digital games tester 35% covered ICT test analyst 33% covered ICT integration tester 30% covered ICT system tester 30% covered ICT operations manager 27% covered ICT quality assurance man… You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from ICT quality assurance manager, each one a link to that move’s record. Distance from the centre is how much retraining the move takes; the figure on each is how much of that role an ICT quality assurance manager already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · A bigger jump

Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.

Table 2

Table 2 · What the job itself asks for

An ICT quality assurance manager needs 16 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.

Required skill Area
  • attend to ICT systems quality working with computers
  • ICT quality policy business, administration and law
  • provide software testing documentation communication, collaboration and creativity
  • internal risk management policy business, administration and law
  • attend to detail in preparation for audits assisting and caring
  • levels of software testing information and communication technologies (icts)
  • ICT process quality models information and communication technologies (icts)
  • software anomalies information and communication technologies (icts)
  • perform quality audits management skills
  • execute software tests working with computers
Table 3

Table 3 · Jobs that lead here

The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what an ICT quality assurance manager does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.

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ICT quality assurance manager is filed under Professionals, ISCO major group 2. The full index lists all ten groups.

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How these figures were compiled

Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of an ICT quality assurance manager’s work. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.