Manager Quality Engineering in UI Platform
The role
You will be Manager of Quality Engineering leading UI Platform team, assisting Engineers in the development of our products. You will report to Sr Manager of QE and a key member of the leadership team, helping advance our initiatives for best practices, standardization, and continuous improvement. You will be a crucial influencer in increasing testing and automation for multiple aspects of the business. You will:
- Manage, develop, and grow a group of Quality Engineer/SDETs
- Foster a strong team for QE spanning multiple scrum squads
- Drive initiatives to implement our Automation, CI/CD, and Tools strategies and best practices
- Deliver according to priorities based on department goals and roadmap
- Innovate and champion improvements in QE and CI/CD processes and tools
- Develop and utilize metrics to help improve process and drive team’s performance.
- Scale QA team’s expertise through continuous improvement and mentoring of team members
- Define and measure appropriate metrics of product quality to drive release decisions which deliver high product quality
- Responsible for QA best practices, and drive process improvements to develop and deliver efficient, scalable, high performing software
- Responsible for examining and evaluating the organization’s success
What you’ll need to succeed
You will be required to develop, maintain, and execute automated tests using current and new frameworks. Additionally, you will implement other test tools your expertise dictates. Moreover, you will liaise with Developers, Architects, develop and maintain test sets, and create additional tools that simplify tasks. You will:
- Domain expertise, minimum of the following
- 8yrs experience in a test, development, automation engineer role
- 4yrs experience developing in an object-oriented testing language, such as Python, C#, or Java
- 3yrs experience in a test, development, automation manager role
- Experience with popular UI Test frameworks and methodologies
- Solid understanding of CI/CD principles, automation technologies, and associated tools
- Experience in Java, Cypress, python and/or Groovy
- Familiarity with REST & SOAP APIs; how to validate and scale them
- Strong interpersonal, communication, influencing skills, & excellent QE engineering methods
- Experience/knowledge in Public Cloud platforms like AWS
- Strong fundamental knowledge of Agile Scrum concepts
- Ability to engage in multiple initiatives simultaneously to meet aggressive timelines
- Willing to champion larger initiatives
- Track record of managing in a fast-paced software/internet/security/technology-based environment
- Ability to attract/retain and develop highly talented software engineering professionals
- Ability to drive collaboration and cooperation across a range of teams and personalities
- Bias for action – eagerness to take initiative and make things happen
DEI Statement
Cybersecurity is a community effort. That’s why we’re committed to building an inclusive, diverse community that celebrates and welcomes everyone – unless they’re a cybercriminal, of course.
We’re proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer, and we’d encourage you to join us whatever your background. We particularly welcome applicants from traditionally underrepresented groups.
We consider everyone equally: your race, age, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, ability, marital status, nationality, or any other protected characteristic won’t affect your application.
Due to certain obligations to our customers, an offer of employment will be subject to your successful completion of applicable background checks, conducted in accordance with local law.
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What We Do
Relentless protection. Resilient world.
Mimecast (NASDAQ: MIME) was born in 2003 with a focus on delivering relentless protection. Each day, we take on cyber disruption for our tens of thousands of customers around the globe; always putting them first, and never giving up on tackling their biggest security challenges together. We are the company that built an intentional and scalable design ideology that solves the number one cyberattack vector – email. We continuously invest to thoughtfully integrate brand protection, security awareness training, web security, compliance and other essential capabilities. Mimecast is here to help protect large and small organizations from malicious activity, human error and technology failure; and to lead the movement toward building a more resilient world. Learn more about us at www.mimecast.com.