Overview:

symplr is looking for a Senior Quality Engineering Manager to drive the quality initiatives for symplr products. This person will be responsible for leading a team of quality engineers. By working closely with engineering as well as center of excellence team, they will be responsible for devising and implementing test strategy for regression, UI &API automation as well as load & performance testing efforts for their product. 

 

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Work closely with engineering and product teams to drive quality engineering initiatives for the product 

• Directly manage a team of quality engineers in Bangalore as well as remotely. 

• Work closely with the onshore quality team to align on the quality strategy and execution. 

• Work with globally dispersed teams and stakeholders to ensure features are released on time with highest quality. 

• Provide technical direction to both onshore and offshore quality engineers executing test strategy 

• Drive the test automation efforts for their product 

• Work with the performance testing team to ensure the product is tested for load, stress and endurance 

• Analyze test results, communicate issues and report any defects 

• Escalate risks and dependencies encountered during testing process 

• Understand quality metrics and drive positive changes based on the metrics 

 

Skills Required:

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills  

• Must be proactive, passionate and able to work in a fast-paced environment  

• Should be able to work with minimum supervision 

• Highly organized, creative, motivated, and passionate about achieving results 

• Strong technical and analytical skills with good understanding of how web and mobile application stacks work 

• Required Qualifications: 

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics, or a related field  
  • 13-15 years’ experience in software quality engineering 
  • 5+ years of leading and managing quality teams 
  • Experience working in an agile environment with distributed engineering teams  
  • Experience with establishing and driving automation test strategy 
  • Experience with load and performance testing strategies 
  • Experience with test management tools like Azure DevOps, Zephyr, etc. 

   

   

  Nice to have: 

  • Experience with testing tools like Selenium Web Driver, Cucumber, Postman, JMeter, ReadyAPI 
  • Experience with languages like C#, Java, Ruby, Typescript, etc. 
  • Experience testing web services (REST, SOAP etc.) 
  • Experience with load testing tools like JMeter, Load Runner, etc.