Senior QE Lead, Infrastructure

Responsibilities

• Be accountable for planning and execution of the QE team's priorities.
• Work with QE leadership to define, launch, and execute multiple strategic and operational initiatives.
• Ensure quality is consistent across all projects and is represented during project planning, development, and launches.
• Drive the adoption of automated testing as a key strategic lever for ensuring efficient and effective testing.
• Clearly communicate program status and progress to large groups of project stakeholders and senior leadership.
• Effectively manage change by influencing and communicating with key stakeholders. Anticipate risks associated with change management, and ensure creative and effective mitigations are available.
• In collaboration with Product teams, identify opportunities and advocate for product improvements and/or tools that support the team's strategy and the needs of the customer.
• Work to quickly become well-versed in the engineering team's product/domain space.
• Coordinate and collaborate with 3rd party vendors and QE counterparts.
• Regularly assess project risks and opportunities. Leverage best practices and continually drive process improvements, but work creatively to drive execution and simplification.

Requirements

• 10+ years of software quality assurance experience, with a proven track record of quality delivery.
• Experience with partnering with Quality Engineering teams to help advance test automation.
• Strong people leadership skills, including hiring, performance management, career development, and building a strong, happy team.
• Proactive communication and interpersonal skills; strong stakeholder management.
• Comfortable in a fast-paced environment, managing ambiguity and uncertainty.
• Ability to anticipate risks & issues and proactively mitigate them.
• Experience using collaborative project management tools and processes (e.g. JIRA, Asana, Smartsheets, Google Docs, scrum, agile).
• Passion for building and delivering high quality software.