Manager Software Test Engineering

Calix provides the cloud, software platforms, systems and services required for communications service providers to simplify their businesses, excite their subscribers and grow their value.

Responsibilities and Duties:

• 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 teams that can deliver on our technology and business strategies.

Qualifications:

• BS/MS degree in CS, EE, or related field.
• 13+ years of experience as a test engineer with focus on both manual and automated testing.
• 6+ 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 efforts.
• Good exposure of Kubernetes, Docker, Elastic Search, Kibana, Grafana, Prometheus.
• Ability to adapt and willingness to learn new technologies and techniques.
• Experience of NLB, S3, Kafka, Redis, Postgres, PrestoDB, Alluxio, Spark jobs, etc
• 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.
• Must have 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 big data technologies such as Hadoop, Spark, or similar.

Location:

India – (Flexible hybrid work model - work from Bangalore office for 20 days in a quarter)