Manager Software Test Engineering

Key Skills: Network Engineer, Kafka, Test Automation Framework

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Responsible for defining QA strategy, approach, and execution for all product lines across Software, Web and Mobile.
• Bring high energy, effectiveness at managing relationships (up, down, across), and ability to roll-up your sleeves to get the job done.
• Serve as a QA lead and work with the leads of other disciplines to increase the QA impact on the end products.
• Interact with stakeholders to gather insights and translate technical concepts
• Mitigate risk and escalate to technology leadership as appropriate.
• Develop and increase team performance and collaboration across organization.
• Design, implement, and document procedures for process control, process improvement, testing and CI/CD.
• Establish and implement metrics to monitor system effectiveness and enable making sound product quality decisions.
• Oversee and direct the development of new test frameworks and applications to ensure the implementation of manual and automated test solutions.
• Think strategically to help drive features and services for short and long-term growth.
• Provide team oversight during the full software development life cycle, from conception, design, implementation and testing to documentation, delivery and maintenance.
• Create testing and automation strategies and approaches in alignment with overall organizational goals.
• Work collaboratively with development and the QA team to identify test cases and suites best suited for automation.
• Have an ability to influence across boundaries and at all levels of the organization.
• Create a fun, fast-paced, motivating and rewarding environment for teams and the organization.
• Attract, build and retain a highly engaged and capable quality assurance team that can deliver on our technology and business strategies.

Skills Required:

• 10+ years of experience as a test engineer with focus on both manual and automated testing.
• 5+ years of experience in a leadership role for quality assurance in an agile SaaS environment.
• Proven track record in leading the architecture, design, development and operations of enterprise-scale testing frameworks, processes, methodologies for diverse environments, solutions, and products.
• Proficiency in QA methodologies, software testing principles, concepts, verification/validation techniques, and test management.
• Excellent analytical, research, documentation, project planning and implementation skills.
• Skills to communicate effectively cross-functionally across various teams, organizations and internal and external stakeholders to drive engineering effort.
• Self-motivated and excellent problem-solver.
• Ability to adapt and willingness to learn new technologies and techniques.
• Effectively lead and manage change within their area of responsibility as well as across the business.
• Working knowledge of micro-services-based API and load testing tools.
• Experience using various bug tracking tools such as Jira, and test management tools such as TestRail or XRay.
• Experience working in a Cloud Ecosystem like GCP or AWS or Azure.
• Experience working in a CI/CD environment preferably with a modern build release model that supports continuous delivery.
• Experience in testing BigData and ELT is a plus.
• Experience in testing Network Management applications is a must.

Education: BS/MS degree in CS, EE, or related field.

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