Manager, Software QA Engineering

📋 Description

• Lead a team of quality engineers tasked with ensuring the reliability, performance, and precision of applications.

• Spearhead the quality engineering strategy across systems utilized by Scheduling, Operations, Playout, Video Supply Chain, Finance, and enterprise content teams.

• Define and execute the QA strategy for Ingest and Ordering applications.

• Develop and enhance test plans, automation frameworks, execution standards, and quality gates across various systems and environments.

• Establish and monitor quality KPIs such as test coverage, defect density, reliability metrics, and release readiness scores.

• Supervise testing across intricate upstream/downstream integrations, including MAM systems, scheduling/traffic systems, playout, supply chain, and content rights platforms.

• Collaborate with SRE, DevOps, and Platform teams to validate system resilience, performance under load, and operational monitoring.

• Manage and mentor a team of onshore and offshore QA engineers through parallel testing efforts and releases.

• Effectively communicate status, risks, and quality insights to leadership and stakeholders.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field.

• Over 5 years of experience in Software Quality Assurance, Quality Engineering, or Test Engineering.

• At least 2 years of experience in leading or managing a QA or Quality Engineering team (onshore/offshore, hybrid, or distributed).

• Demonstrated experience in driving QA strategy across multiple applications, services, or platforms.

• Strong understanding of QA methodologies, various testing types, and SDLC models (Agile, Kanban, CI/CD, DevOps).

• Hands-on experience in designing and executing diverse testing strategies such as regression, integration, end-to-end, and performance testing.

• Proven experience in developing or maintaining test automation frameworks (e.g., Selenium, JUnit, TestNG, Cucumber, Cypress, Playwright).

• Familiarity with version control and CI/CD tools (GitHub, GitLab, Jenkins, or similar).

• Strong working knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP).

• Proficient in QA and defect management tools (Jira, TestRail, Zephyr, qTest, or similar).

• Awareness of modern observability tools (Datadog, Splunk, New Relic, Grafana, or similar).

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.

• 401(k) plan.

• Paid leave.

• Tuition reimbursement.

• A variety of additional discounts and perks.