Senior Manager, Quality Engineering
Overview
symplr is looking for a Senior Quality Engineering Manager to drive quality initiatives for its products. This person will lead a team of quality engineers and work closely with engineering, product, and center of excellence teams to devise and implement test strategies for regression, UI & API automation, and load & performance testing.
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 and remotely
- Collaborate 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 in executing test strategy
- Drive the test automation efforts for the 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 the testing process
- Understand quality metrics and drive positive changes based on those metrics
Skills Required
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Proactive, passionate and able to work in a fast‑paced environment
- Able to work with minimum supervision
- Highly organized, creative, motivated, and passionate about achieving results
- Strong technical and analytical skills with a 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 such as Azure DevOps, Zephyr, etc.
Nice to Have
- Experience with testing tools such as Selenium WebDriver, Cucumber, Postman, JMeter, ReadyAPI
- Experience with languages such as C#, Java, Ruby, TypeScript, etc.
- Experience testing web services (REST, SOAP, etc.)
- Experience with load testing tools such as JMeter, LoadRunner, etc.
Benefits & Perks
- Sodexo Meal Coupon
- Internet Reimbursement
- Mobile Reimbursement
- Gym Reimbursement
- Health Insurance – Personal, Term Life, Dependents, Dental, OPD, etc.
- Transport Facility – Subsidized Rate