Manager Quality Engineering

Position: Manager I Quality Engineering
Overview

Join an amazing team that is consistently recognized for our achievements and culture, including our most recent Forbes award of being one of America's Best Midsize Employers for 2025!

Position Summary:

As a Manager I Quality Engineering, you will lead a team of TE engineers, planning, executing, and delivery of testing strategies for software projects. Your responsibilities will include mentoring test engineers, providing direction on test approaches, optimizing test processes, maximizing testing efficiency through automation and collaborating with product and development teams to ensure software quality. You will be instrumental in defining team goals, improving testing automation, and ensuring projects meet both quality and timeline requirements.

This role involves a balance of primarily hands-on technical leadership as well as some team management, ensuring effective alignment of TE objectives with business and technical goals.

Geo-Salary Information

State specific pay scales for this role are as follows:

$105,245 to $199,452 (CA, NJ, NY, WA, HI, AK, MD, CT, RI, MA)

$95,677 to $181,320 (NV, OR, AZ, CO, WY, TX, ND, MN, MO, IL, WI, FL, GA, MI, OH, VA, PA, DE, VT, NH, ME)

$86,110 to $163,188 (UT, , MT, NM, SD, NE, KS, OK, IA, AR, LA, MS, AL, TN, KY, IN, SC, NC, WV)

The expected base salary for this position will vary depending on a number of factors, including relevant experience, skills and location.

Responsibilities

Essential Job Functions:

* Building and Manage Team - Build and manage highly motivated high performing TE team(s) by hiring strong technical talent, mentoring and motivating the staff to support multiple small functional areas, fostering a culture of continuous improvement, innovation and excellence.

* TE Strategies and Policies - Lead a few small teams with quality assurance strategies, policies, and drive best practices to ensure software quality for small-medium sized projects.

* Manage and Drive Quality Initiatives - Lead and Drive quality initiatives by providing project guidance, solutions, support to ensure timelines and quality standards are met for their team's initiatives.

* Test Planning, Estimation, Execution and Automation Implementation - Provide hands on test planning, estimation and execution, and reporting to meet project quality standards and timelines for multiple small projects.

* Cross-Functional Collaboration - Work closely with development, product management, and other teams to drive quality goals, including automation coverage, requirements and deadlines. Ensure strategic alignment with cross-functional stakeholders at high-level, drive alignment and meet deadlines for multiple small sized teams.

* Metrics for Data-Driven Decisions - Assist in key performance indicators (KPIs), align with MTS KPI. Define and review metrics for the TE process, automation coverage and analyzing data to drive improvements for multiple small projects

* Implement and Drive Automation Strategies - Advocate and drive the integration of test automation within the TE process to enhance efficiency, effectiveness and coverage for multiple - small projects.

* Critical Thinking and Problem-Solving Skills - Strong ability to think analytically, critically and creatively to assess and remove blockers for systems in multiple small sized aspect of quality at both task and simple strategic level

* Ensure Compliance and Standards - Ensure testing processes and good practice to comply with industry standards and regulatory requirements relevant to the organization within single functional team

* Continuous Improvement - Drive continuous improvement initiatives within the TE process, motivating team members across teams to embrace best practices and adopt new technologies. Advocate for best practices in test automation, CI/CD. Leverage quantitative metrics to showcase the impact of these improvements on software quality and testing efficiency for medium sized teams.

* Communicate with Stakeholders - Provide regular project updates and reports on TE progress, challenges, and results to their teams

* Driving Best Practice and Quality Culture - Leading and driving a culture of quality throughout their teams, encouraging their teams to prioritize software quality and vision.

Qualifications

Education:

Minimum:

* Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems or other related fields Or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Experience:

Minimum:

* 3+ yrs leading or managing testing teams including ~50% IC work

Preferred:

* 5 or more years of experience gray-box testing

* 5 or more years of hands on experience with automation test implementation and execution strategy

* 5 or more years of development experience with Java and/or Python

* 1 or more years of experience with Jenkins or CI/CD

* 1 or more years of experience creating automation frameworks

Knowledge and

Skills:

Minimum:

* Familiar with the following:

* Build TE/SET team - Build a highly talented, productive, and effective team.

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