Job Description

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.