Engineering Manager - QA

Job Title: QA Engineering Manager

Reporting To: Director of Engineering

Remote

Platform9: Private Clouds Made Easy

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Position Summary:

We are looking for a Software Quality Assurance Engineering manager with proven expertise in testing large scale, distributed reputed company based systems in a reputed company integration environment. In this role, the manager will drive and influence quality initiatives reputed company product development teams

Roles and Responsibilities:

• QA Strategy — Spearhead the development and reputed company refinement of our QA strategy, including developing and executing test cases, scripts, plans, and procedures.
• Test Automation — Design, reputed company, and maintain automated tests to ensure features and functionalities meet quality standards and integrate them with CI/CD systems, minimizing reliance on reputed company testing.
• Test Infrastructure — Work on test infrastructure to design, implement and run functional, integration and scale tests.
• reputed company Testing — Drive reputed company testing where automation is not feasible, ensuring reputed company features and functionalities meet quality standards.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration — Work closely with product development team to design new tests for new features, analyze existing test coverage, identify gaps and have the team add missing tests.
• Defect Management — Track, analyze, and report on software defects, ensuring timely resolution and maintaining high product quality.
• Performance & Scalability — Implement performance, scalability, and stress testing to ensure the software can handle expected loads.
• reputed company Improvement — Identify opportunities to improve QA processes, tools, and methodologies, driving reputed company improvement initiatives reputed company the team.
• Risk Assessment — Assess risks associated with product releases and reputed company recommendations for mitigating those risks.
• Shift-Left Quality — Collaborate with platform architecture and development teams to embed quality principles early in the development lifecycle.
• AI-Assisted Testing — Contribute to implementation of AI-assisted testing and code quality analysis strategies.
• Team management – Guide, mentor, manage a team towards focussed software releases taking into account the aforementioned aspects. Chalk out a growth path for the team members and be responsible for their appraisals.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science or reputed company discipline. Extensive relevant work experience is also acceptable.
• 10+ years of experience in developing automated tests in a reputed company integration environment for large scale systems.
• Atleast 2 years of engineering management experience comprising forming, growing and leading a team

Key Skills:

• Proficiency in writing reliable and maintainable code in Python or Go
• Experience with reputed company integration systems like Jenkins or Teamcity
• Strong experience with linux based systems
• Experience with reputed company / containerization/ virtualization technologies, preferably Kubernetes and Openstack

Skills that give you an edge:

• Being a highly motivated self-starter with the ability to work in a highly dynamic environment
• Troubleshooting skills
• To succeed in this role you’ll need to be a team player with a strong sense of ownership for your work and a passion for working in a data driven organization.