Head of Software Quality & DevSecOps

AeroVironment, Inc.; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 118,000 - 179,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401K with company matching

Health insurance

Paid holidays and 9/80 schedule

Job summary

Manager, Software Engineering at AeroVironment, Inc. leads a software QA, automation, and DevSecOps team, growing people, processes, and tools that verify mission systems software and maintain robust development and test infrastructure.

As a member of the Engineering management team, the manager defines and executes strategy, budget, staffing, and development, coordinating across software engineering, system test, programs, and information security to reduce software quality and program risk.

Qualifications

• BS degree in CS/EE/CE or equivalent.
• 10+ years software engineering experience with strong quality/DevOps.
• 2+ years in supervisory or tech lead role.
• Experience defining test strategy and automation for complex software.
• Experience with Git/GitLab, CI/CD tooling, Linux.
• Ability to collaborate across engineering, test, and programs.

Responsibilities

• Manages a group of software QA, automation, and DevOps engineers, including budget planning, staffing, training, performance evaluation and career development.
• Attracts and retains high caliber staff and provides mentorship
• Defines the team's roles, ways of working, and a clear scope that complements the software development and system test teams
• Sets the strategy for test coverage, automation frameworks, and CI/CD and lab infrastructure across programs
• Establishes and owns QA standards, metrics, and reporting; the bug reporting and review process; and go/no-go release recommendations to the system test team
• Leads software risk identification, tracking, and mitigation across programs
• Collaborates with software engineering, the system test team, programs, and information security to align quality goals and engineering processes
• Works in an Agile environment to coordinate the team's work including scope, scheduling and resourcing
• Frequently interacts with subordinate supervisors, customers and/or functional peer group managers, normally involving matters between functional areas
• Establishes and assures adherence to budgets, schedules and work plans
• Interacts with senior management
• Other duties as assigned

Skills

Software QA

Test automation

DevSecOps

CI/CD

Team leadership

Agile

Linux environments

Education

BS degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related

Tools

Git/GitLab

CI pipelines

Containerization

Linux

Job description

Manager, Software Engineering at AeroVironment, Inc. leads a software QA, automation, and DevSecOps team, growing people, processes, and tools that verify mission systems software and maintain robust development and test infrastructure.

As a member of the Engineering management team, the manager defines and executes strategy, budget, staffing, and development, coordinating across software engineering, system test, programs, and information security to reduce software quality and program risk.