Quality Engineering Manager

Role Purpose

We are looking for an experienced Quality Engineering Manager to lead our QA teams and help take our testing to the next level by taking an automation-first approach, maturing and standardizing our processes, implementing best-practices and tooling.  To be successful in this role, the candidate must have a mature outlook towards technology and hands-on experience in growing a high performing team.  The candidate must have experience designing and build automation framework and tools used by QA teams.  The candidate must have experience driving process and technological changes throughout Engineering organization.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead, manage and mentor technical QA teams
• Partner closely with Product and Engineering teams to ensure seamless integration with product roadmap delivery schedules
• Work with Senior Leadership to define and execute the overall testing methodology and approach
• Identify and strategize opportunities to implement automation-first approach.
• Identify opportunities and implement strategies to improve the quality of our product and platform through introduction of tooling and processes
• Leverage your technical expertise in smoothening out technical testing roadblocks and mentoring the team to take an optimized approach towards automation.
• Apply your growing experience and understanding of Test automation and software engineering best practices to influence design and implementation approaches
• Track test gaps, quality, and productivity metrics. Work with other engineering teams to improve gaps from this data.
• Roll out your sleeves and contribute technically to project/initiatives as needed
• Lead process improvement initiatives to improve Engineering as a whole
• Contribute to build a high performing engineering culture that is technical, and data driven
• Perform Hiring in QA team
• Negotiating with Engineering and Product Peers on QA capacity for the incoming work

Key Skills and Competencies

• Experience with distributed Microservices architecture application and End to End testing of these type of applications
• Expertise in test automation frameworks (e.g., Selenium) and scripting languages (e.g., Python, Java)
• Experience with Backend (batch jobs, server side) test automation tools
• Strong understanding of software testing methodologies, tools, and best practices 
• Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines and integrating automated tests in a DevOps environment 
• Developed and successfully implemented QA strategies and processes leveraging open-source technologies, as well as in-house built
• Strong understanding of testing practices, testing framework and tools
• Ability to dive into technical details and troubleshoot production issues as needed
• Experience managing and working with distributed teams
• Known for being curious, collaborative, great at communication and always willing to go above and beyond
• Knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure) and containerization tools (Docker, Kubernetes) is a plus
• Experience with Scrum systems and Project management
• Experience in driving organizational change with cross-functional stakeholders
• Strong organizational skill and detailed oriented
• Experience with performance reviews
• Good to have Payments domain/Fintech experience

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Engineering in Computer science or equivalent degree of 4 years
• 3+ years of experience in people management, managing a team of SDETs and effectively communicating with Cross department Peers
• 10+ years working in Software testing domain, designing and implementing automation framework, testing tools and developing automation tests