Senior Manager, Quality Engineering

Overview

symplr is looking for a Senior Quality Engineering Manager to drive the quality initiatives for symplr products. This person will be responsible for leading a team of quality engineers. By working closely with engineering as well as center of excellence team, they will be responsible for devising and implementing test strategy for regression, UI &API automation as well as load & performance testing efforts for their product.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Work closely with engineering and product teams to drive quality engineering initiatives for the product
• Directly manage a team of quality engineers in Bangalore as well as remotely.
• Work closely with the onshore quality team to align on the quality strategy and execution.
• Work with globally dispersed teams and stakeholders to ensure features are released on time with highest quality.
• Provide technical direction to both onshore and offshore quality engineers executing test strategy
• Drive the test automation efforts for their product
• Work with the performance testing team to ensure the product is tested for load, stress and endurance
• Analyze test results, communicate issues and report any defects
• Escalate risks and dependencies encountered during testing process
• Understand quality metrics and drive positive changes based on the metrics

Skills Required

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Must be proactive, passionate and able to work in a fast-paced environment
• Should be able to work with minimum supervision
• Highly organized, creative, motivated, and passionate about achieving results
• Strong technical and analytical skills with good understanding of how web and mobile application stacks work

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics, or a related field
• 13-15 years’ experience in software quality engineering
• 5+ years of leading and managing quality teams
• Experience working in an agile environment with distributed engineering teams
• Experience with establishing and driving automation test strategy
• Experience with load and performance testing strategies