Quality Assurance Manager

Job description

DESCRIPTION

There's a revolution brewing to bring convenience, simplicity, efficiency, and fun to our lives, and you can be a part of it! We are seeking Quality Assurance Manager. As a Quality assurance manager, you will be responsible for leading teams of engineers in design, testing, automation, and deployment of a range of products on voice, desktop, mobile platforms, and core backend capabilities.

A successful candidate will have an established background in testing and automating, customer-facing experiences, proven track record of building and leading strong and motivated engineering teams, have strong technical ability, excellent project management skills, great communication skills, and a motivation to achieve results in a fast paced environment.

The successful Quality Assurance Manager has a strong customer focus and is obsessed with continuous quality improvement. They are experienced and highly committed to creating world class automation for feature testing and regression. They are able to develop and drive a high-level strategy, as well as to take a hands-on approach to implementing that strategy. They are dedicated to building a strong and highly performant team.

Responsibilities:
· Manage a team of high caliber Test Engineers and Software Engineers in Test working on building world class, and scalable automation infrastructure.
· Recruit, hire, mentor, and coach test engineers and software engineers in test at different levels of experience.
· Manage and execute against project plans and delivery commitments within an Agile/Scrum environment.
· Provide technical expertise and leadership throughout product life cycle. Identify gaps and drive improvements in processes, products and overall customer experiences. Represent team and drive initiatives cross-functionally.
· Drive engineering best practices and tooling to boost overall engineering productivity.
· The successful candidate is an experienced hands-on manager who can build an organization and ensure it performs.

If you have an entrepreneurial spirit, know how to deliver, are deeply technical, highly innovative, and long for the opportunity to build pioneering solutions to challenging problems, we want to talk to you.

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This position is located in Irvine, California (Orange County). Lots of sun, close to the beach, excellent schools, and a great group of people.

Desired profile

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

· Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science or a related discipline
· 8+ years of industry experience, including at least three years of hands-on testing with automation and at least five years as a manager
· Knowledge of QA methodologies and tools