At Kinaxis, who we are is grounded in our common belief that people matter. Each one of us plays an important part in accomplishing our work, building our culture and making a global impact.
Every day, we’re empowered to work together to help our customers make fast, confident planning decisions. This is how we create a better planet – for each other, for our customers and for generations to come. Our cloud-based platform RapidResponse ensures that the products we need – everything from medicine and cars, to day-to-day items like toothpaste – make it to market and into our hands when we need them with minimal ecological footprint.
We make the world better, and you can too.
Manager, Backend Quality
Job location: Ottawa, Canada
About the team
Kinaxis is looking for a talented candidate to provide strong leadership in the Quality team at our new headquarters in Ottawa. The core of our product is our in-memory database. Kinaxis has its own proprietary database, optimized for Supply Chain. With growing volumes of data and increasing adoption of our product, we have the opportunity to scale out our database and increase throughput. We are in an era of fascinating and challenging work as we build the next-generation database architecture.
Our Backend Quality team takes on the functional and performance testing of our proprietary database and query engine. The team is responsible for building and maintaining our test frameworks while also looking for new ways to innovate in our testing strategies and methodologies, so we can optimize our process and deliver high-quality features rapidly.
You’ll guide your team to solve complex problems, implement challenging and important new features, optimize our process, apply new and emerging technologies.
If you have a passion for leading awesome teams, have a strong track record of delivering high-quality software and are looking for professional growth, then this opportunity is for you.
What you will do
- Lead, mentor and motivate a growing high-performance team of software test developers
- Guide the evolution of our tests and test automation frameworks
- Ensure a high level of automated test coverage
- Understand and use internal & customer data to help achieve coverage
- Assist in triage, release process and monitoring quality dashboards
- Drive ideas, initiatives, and feedback on testing principles
- Collaborate closely with other QA/PV, development, and support teams to continually improve the experience of deploying and using the RapidResponse platform.
What we are looking for
- Post-secondary degree in engineering/computer science or equivalent
- A dynamic leader with excellent communication skills, initiative and collaborative spirit
- 7+ years in software or test development environment
- 3+ years in a quality or software leadership role
- Passion for testing best practices and methodologies
- Familiarity with Jenkins CI/CD and release pipelines
- Experience applying Scrum/Kanban development methodology
- Automated test experience, including unit test frameworks
- Database and SQL knowledge and C# experience
- Experience in delivering enterprise SaaS products and supply chain domain is an asset
What we have to offer
- Challenging Work - We love solving highly complex problems. And as the global leaders in our industry, we never stop innovating—our work is never “done. That’s because across our teams and in all roles, every employee is empowered to bring their best ideas forward and to jump in and solve the problems they’re passionate about.
- Great People - We take our work seriously, but we don’t take ourselves too seriously! It’s in our DNA to celebrate, laugh, and have fun. We are stronger, together, when we are open, honest, and above all, real. Every person is valued here and plays an important role in our shared success.
- Global Impact - As a global team spanning continents, boundaries, and cultures, every day we are inspired by the impact our work has on our colleagues, our customers, our communities, and the world at large.
- Diversity, Equity and Inclusion - Diversity, equity and inclusion are more than words to us. They are the guiding principles for building a culture where we celebrate each others’ differences, continuously strive for equality and recognize that inclusion makes us stronger as individuals, a company and a global citizen.
For more information, visit the Kinaxis web site at www.kinaxis.com or the company’s blog at http://blog.kinaxis.com/.
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