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QA Engineering Manager Job, IT Jobs April 2021

Position: QA Engineering Manager (Technology)

Location: Nairobi

Job Description

In this role, you will work as an QA Manager within the Technology department leading a full stack team.  You will manage up to 10 engineers providing mentoring and coaching and maintaining innovative processes that monitor the health of the engineering team.

Responsibilities:

• Manage engineers
  
  
  
  • Manage QA team members with different skill sets and technical areas of focus
  
  
  • Mentor and coach the QA engineers and ensure their success
  
  
  • Encourage and promote best QA engineering practices
  
  
  • Encourage a data-driven culture to improve the efficiency, scalability, and stability of our products
  
  
  • Support QA engineers in identifying, resolving and escalating issues that impact their work
  
  
  • Manage and track QA engineers on performance and career development
  
  
  
  


• Provide technical leadership and guidance
  
  
  
  • Guide the team in the development of test cases and the execution of all functional QA testing.
  
  
  • Responsible for setting goals for the team and ensuring delivery of results.
  
  
  • Partner with QA engineers to improve and automate testing processes.
  
  
  • Provide scoping and estimation feedback to the business
  
  
  • Make technology choices working with the team members
  
  
  • Drive issue resolution and ensure production system uptime
  
  
  
  


• Manage, measure and improve engineering processes
  
  
  
  • Continuously improves Andelas software development lifecycle processes
  
  
  • Oversee all defect identification, triage, and management. Coordinate defect reporting from customers, our customer success team, and other sources.
  
  
  • Improve release planning and sprint execution
  
  
  • Plan and manage a QA engineering roadmap, clearly articulating motivations and rationale.
  
  
  • Plan, track, and manage QA for multiple in-flight engineering projects. Own timelines for all QA work.
  
  
  • Drive prioritization and issue resolution approaches
  
  
  • Refine onboarding and offboarding processes for engineering team members
  
  
  
  


• Collaborate with key stakeholders within and across department
  
  
  
  • Ensure collaboration with Engineer leadership and across Engineering teams
  
  
  • Advocate for and ensure prioritization of technical initiatives working with Product Managers.
  
  
  • Engage with users and key stakeholders to understand problems and requirements
  
  
  • Responsible for measuring and reporting on defect rates for all platforms.
  
  
  
  


• Recruit talent Support budget alignment and monitoring and adherence of responsibilities
  
  
  
  • Identify potential candidates that best fit our roles (e.g. team leads, senior engineers)
  
  
  • Interview and evaluate prospective talent to ensure fit
  
  
  • Facilitate onboarding of new hires
  
  
  
  

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience building and managing a QA team within a rapidly growing company, with an established ability to hire and coach people at multiple levels.


• Strong experience in configuration and release management. 


• 5-7 years of software development experience


• 3+ years experience managing and growing software engineering teams as a direct QA leadership and people management 


• Demonstrated experience establishing and scaling QA processes with strong results. Excellent ability to organize teams and processes. Experience with test automation.


• Strong analytical and problem solving skills


• Experience with standard testing tools such as Zephyr Test Management, Selenium, Jest, Mocha, TestCafe, and Chai


• Proven track record of building metric driven testing teams


• Have ability to build rapport and communicate with individuals from diverse cultural backgrounds


• Have strong leadership skills.

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