Job Description

Calix provides the cloud, software platforms, systems and services required for communications service providers to simplify their businesses, excite their subscribers and grow their value.

Responsibilities and Duties:

• Responsible for defining QA strategy, approach, and execution for all product lines across Software, Web and Mobile.
• Bring high energy, effectiveness at managing relationships (up, down, across), and ability to roll-up your sleeves to get the job done.
• Serve as a QA lead and work with the leads of other disciplines to increase the QA impact on the end products.
• Interact with stakeholders to gather insights and translate technical concepts
• Mitigate risk and escalate to technology leadership as appropriate.
• Develop and increase team performance and collaboration across organization.
• Design, implement, and document procedures for process control, process improvement, testing and CI/CD.
• Establish and implement metrics to monitor system effectiveness and enable making sound product quality decisions.
• Oversee and direct the development of new test frameworks and applications to ensure the implementation of manual and automated test solutions.
• Think strategically to help drive features and services for short and long-term growth.
• Provide team oversight during the full software development life cycle, from conception, design, implementation and testing to documentation,
• delivery and maintenance.
• Create testing and automation strategies and approaches in alignment with overall organizational goals.
• Work collaboratively with development and the QA team to identify test cases and suites best suited for automation Have an ability to influence across
• boundaries and at all levels of the organization.
• Create a fun, fast paced, motivating and rewarding environment for teams and the organization.
• Attract, build and retain a highly engaged and capable quality assurance teams that can deliver on our technology and business strategies.

Qualifications:

• BS/MS degree in CS, EE, or related field.
• 13+ years of experience as a test engineer with focus on both manual and automated testing.
• 6+ years of experience in a leadership role for quality assurance in an agile SaaS environment.
• Proven track record in leading the architecture, design, development and operations of enterprise scale testing frameworks, processes, methodologies
• for diverse environments, solutions, and products.
• Proficiency in QA methodologies, software testing principles, concepts, verification/ validation techniques, and test management.
• Excellent analytical, research, documentation, project planning and implementation skills.
• Skills to communicate effectively cross-functionally across various teams, organizations and internal and external stakeholders to drive engineering efforts.
• Good exposure of Kubernetes, Docker, Elastic Search, Kibana, Grafana, Prometheus.
• Ability to adapt and willingness to learn new technologies and techniques.
• Experience of NLB, S3, Kafka, Redis, Postgres, PrestoDB, Alluxio, Spark jobs, etc
• Working knowledge of micro-services based API and load testing tools.
• Experience using various bug tracking tools such as Jira, and test management tools such as TestRail or XRay.
• Must have experience working in a Cloud Ecosystem like GCP or AWS or Azure.
• Experience working in a CI/CD environment preferably with a modern build release model that supports continuous delivery.
• Experience in big data technologies such as Hadoop, Spark, or similar.

Location:

India – (Flexible hybrid work model - work from Bangalore office for 20 days in a quarter)