Responsibilities
Lead and manage a team of 6-8 QE engineers in the assigned Scrum team.
Accountable for the Quality of the deliverables across features in the assigned Team.
Driving multiple quality initiatives in coordination with Development managers.
Recruit and Manage QE staff to deliver on business needs and strategic vision
Recommend tools and technologies to improve automation and regression testing; execute plans to modernize and scale with new solutions and innovative tools/approaches
Help drive the implementation and rollout of Saviynt’s QA processes and metrics, aligning them with business/customer needs and fast paced company dynamic
Enforce key measurements/metrics to quantify and benchmark QE effectiveness, adjusting processes for continuous improvement
Align with Product Management to understand business needs and ensure quality is cemented early in the product development life cycle
Partner with development managers to provide guidance using agile methodologies such as Test-Driven Development, Behaviour Driven Development etc. and other Agile techniques
Work side by side with engineering managers to enforce an 'automation first' strategy to test case execution; ensure CI/CD pipeline key integration to drive product quality.
Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field required.
12+ years of experience in software QE. 3+ years of experience in managing QA teams
Proficiency in testing SaaS applications deployed on Kubernetes with microservices architecture.
Hands-on experience with automation testing frameworks and tools like Selenium, Rest-assured, TestNG, Junit and design patterns.
Experience testing Rest APIs
Solid knowledge of DevOps and CI/CD tools –Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, GIT. Code coverage tools like Sonar
Experience with cloud ecosystems like AWS, Azure or GCP.
Experience working with globally distributed teams.
Experience in direct management of cross functional, matrixed Quality teams;
Able to connect and articulate the links between technical capability and business needs.
Self-driven, critical thinker and problem solver.
Highly motivated, results oriented with exceptional communications skills
Champion of Agile-Scrum and different testing methodologies.