Manager, SW QA Engineering - System Test
Job Summary
Job Description
Gigamon is looking for an experienced Test Manager for System Test. This role requires a strategic thinker and problem solver to manage the System test team for various product portfolios, ensuring quality SW/HW releases. Responsibilities include effective resource management, cultivating a high-performing team, attracting and retaining talent, and collaborating with development, QA, and product management teams. The manager will contribute to the vision and strategy for continuous integration, improved development/QA processes, and productivity of test functions. Key duties involve ensuring timely delivery of system test deliverables, defining and validating enterprise use cases, optimizing test cycles, and promoting an automation-first methodology. Collaboration with development and DevTest teams for test case integration and ensuring timely test case execution with a customer quality focus are also essential. The role involves troubleshooting field escalations and ensuring efficient test case progress and bug fix rates. Understanding HW & SW architecture implications on testing is crucial.
Must have:
- Manage System test team for product portfolios
- Ensure quality SW/HW releases
- Manage resources effectively
- Cultivate high performing team
- Attract, groom, retain top talent
- Collaborate with development and QA teams
- Contribute to vision and strategy
- Ensure system test deliverables on time
- Optimize test cycles and improve coverage
- Be an automation champion
- Integrate test cases to system test
- Ensure timely test case execution
- Troubleshoot field escalations
- Work with development for test progress
- Understand HW & SW architecture
- Experience in L2/L3 protocols
- Scripting knowledge (Python/TCL/PERL)
- Experience in full product life cycle
- Knowledge of Agile and Waterfall
- Ability to manage complex problems
- Ability to organize and delegate
- Ability to drive multi-geo projects
- Thrive in fast-paced environment
- Manage major software release deliveries
- Conflict resolution skills
- Excellent communication skills
- Ability to mentor and lead change
- BS in CS or EE, MS preferred
Good to have:
- Experience shipping core-networking products
- Experience as a manager leading System test teams (3-5 years)
8 skills required
Job Details
Description
Gigamon is seeking a self-motivated experienced Test manager for System Test. This position requires a strategic thinker; a problem solver who is a self-starter and self-motivated; well organized, flexible, and effective with multiple simultaneous tasks.
Roles and Responsibilities include:
- Manage the System test team for the entire Gigamon R&D team that includes Embedded, Cloud and GigaSMART product portfolios and lead and deliver quality SW/HW releases. It involves:
- Managing resources effectively to deliver commitment on schedule
- Cultivate a high performing team and constantly raising the bar
- Ability to attract, groom and retain top talent
- Closely collaborate with peer development and QA teams, architecture, customer support and product line management
- As a key member of the Engineering management staff, contribute to the vision and strategy of continuous integration, improved development/QA processes, quality and productivity of test functions
- System test deliverables that includes defining and validating enterprise use cases, system test, regressions, longevity and scale are ensured on time with quality
- Effective System Test cycles, continuous improvements over time to optimize the run time and improve coverage across the features Be a product automation champion with a focus on delivering releases with an automation first methodology
- Working closely with the Development and DevTest to integrate test cases to the system test and Functional test suite.
- Ensuring Timely test case execution with a customer quality focus
- Field escalations; working with support and development in troubleshooting and reproducing field reported escalation issues
- Work closely with development to ensure efficient test case progress and bug fix rate
- Understand HW & SW architecture of products, and their implications on feature and system testing
Requirement:
- 12 to 15 years (or more) of overall relevant industry experience and a track record of shipping core-networking products for the enterprise and service provider markets
- At least 3-5 years of experience as manager leading the System test teams.
- Experience in L2/L3 protocols with system test background, and scripting knowledge (Python/TCL/PERL).
- Deep understanding of full product life cycle, software development methods (both Agile and Waterfall), and development/test and build environments
- Ability to undertake loosely defined goals or complex problems to create order, and drive to closure.
- Ability to organize, delegate, and effectively deliver to large and complex programs.
- Ability to drive multi-geo projects by working effectively with remote teams.
- Ability to thrive in fast-paced, highly dynamic environment, with a bias towards action and results.
- Manage major software release deliveries as a release manager
- Conflict resolution skills including ability to bridge style difference.
- Excellent interpersonal, verbal, listening, and written communication skills, both within the team and across the organization.
- Ability to mentor/coach/teach/facilitate and lead change in a highly technical/dynamic team.
- BS in CS or EE, MS strongly preferred.
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