Integration Test Lead

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It’s our people who fuel our creativity and make our culture feel like home.

This is a fixed hybrid role with on-site work Tuesday through Thursday. We are accepting applications from candidates based in Maple Plain, MN, or North Carolina.

The Integration Test Lead is a senior quality engineering role responsible for end-to-end (E2E) testing strategy and execution coordination across cross-functional programs and projects. This role exists to address the distinct skill set required for integration-level testing — ensuring that team-to-team dependencies, system interfaces, and cross-platform workflows are validated holistically.

The Integration Test Lead partners closely with Software Quality Engineers (SQEs), Software Developers, Technical Product Managers, and Program/Project Managers. SQEs remain accountable for unit and functional testing within their respective teams; this role owns the integration layer above.

• Design, develop, code, test, debug, implement, and document software applications
• Guide team development efforts towards successful project delivery through Agile methodologies
• Provide technical leadership to teammates through coaching and mentoring
• Influence work direction that aligns with both engineer and company goals
• Maintain high standards of software quality within the team by establishing good practices and habits
• Identify and encourage areas for growth and improvement within the team
• Collaborate with other software engineers, technical product managers, and data architects to plan, design, develop, test, and maintain business applications
• Appropriately applying engineering principles and concepts to area of specialization
• Demonstrate creativity and ingenuity in applying engineering principles and practices
• Draw solutions from a wider range of experience
• Define technical approaches to project and act as lead on some projects and guide lower-level developers
• Participate in peer-reviews of solution designs and related code
• Analyze and resolve technical and application problems
• Assess opportunities for application and process improvement and prepare documentation of rationale to share with team members and other affected parties
• Adhere to high-quality development principles while delivering solutions on-time and in-budget
• Interview and onboard new team members
• Provide feedback on team members’ performance
• Stay current on new technologies; research and evaluate a variety of software products
• Perform additional tasks as assigned

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field or comparable professional experience in these fields
• 10+ years of professional software development experience
• Experience mentoring engineers of varying experience levels from intern to senior
• Experience providing work direction to others by aligning tasks to skillsets and company objectives
• Experience working with engineers to estimate tasks, plan projects, and schedule releases
• Experience with software development focused on Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
• Experience…