Responsibilities:
- Manages, schedules, plans, and coordinates team and staff assignments, budgets, and services
- Oversees activities related to the design, development, implementation, and maintenance of platforms and services to support testing and automated software delivery
- Ensures that corporate, departmental and team standards and processes are utilized, and improvements are implemented to enhance performance of the team
- Provides strategic and operational direction as the owner of test automation in areas including application, system, and performance testing
- Partners with leaders in the agile community to drive a roadmap where quality and automation are principles within all planned work
- Actively participates in incident remediation to identify testing opportunities and strategies to improve system quality
- Develops talent, applies clear and consistent performance standards, and handles performance problems decisively and objectively
- Seeks input from others, listens effectively, and uses diplomacy, tact, and consensus when applicable to build relationships and gain trust, respect, and support
- Leads and mentors team members to support the maintenance and production activities as required by the business unit
- Implements a roadmap for test automation and quality controls applicable to changing application and platform design, including micro services and public cloud migration
- Manages budget and relationships with vendors that provide tools and services
Experience:
- 7+ years of IT experience including quality engineering, testing or similar responsibilities
- 3+ years of leadership experience
- Position requires a bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology or related field
- Will accept any suitable combination of education, training or experience
- In depth knowledge of software testing, development and delivery methodologies
- Experience writing, managing and maintaining test automation suites for single page application and high performance batch applications
- Experience implementing testing tools and automation practices leveraging tools like Selenium, Postman, JMeter; DocBridge Delta
- Experience with technologies such as Java, JavaScript, SQL
- Experience managing engineering teams of five or more staff
- Ability to lead and mentor staff as well as plan work and required staffing levels
- Ability to analyze and resolve complex problems
- Ability to convey technical concepts to non-technical audiences
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, interpersonal and collaborative skills preferred
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