Quality Engineering Manager

Summary

Join Acquia as a Manager of Quality Engineering and lead a team dedicated to delivering exceptional SaaS and PaaS applications. You will own QE best practices, manage and mentor a growing team, and drive test automation. This role requires collaboration with developers, product managers, and other stakeholders to ensure high-quality software releases. You will be responsible for improving testing processes, prioritizing quality requirements, and working closely with project and program managers. Acquia offers competitive benefits to support employee well-being.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field
• Total experience of 10-15 years
• 3+ years of experience in managing an engineering team
• In-depth experience with the full product development lifecycle
• Demonstrated ability to hire, mentor, and motivate top engineering talent
• Test automation development experience in designing and building enterprise test automation solutions
• Solid understanding of testing tools, techniques, and methodologies
• Experience testing Microservices and APIs
• Experience with load and performance testing
• Experience with Agile (eg Scrum) and test driven development
• Experience with Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD)
• Programming experience in any of the languages (GO, PHP, Python, Java, JavaScript) or equivalent
• Hands on Amazon Web Service (EC2, S3) or Google Cloud or Azure
• Knowledge of docker, containers or Kubernetes

Responsibilities

• Own, maintain and govern QE best practices and tools
• Deliver product quality for our SaaS and PaaS applications
• Manage and mentor members of a growing team, and promote effective teamwork
• Ensure adherence to Acquia’s standards for product quality and maintainability
• Drive QE best practices and processes within the engineering team, and identify areas for continuous improvement
• Help product team prioritize quality requirements and be a champion of the engineering team in release/sprint planning
• Improve and accelerate our Product, System Integration, Performance and Load testing practices
• Facilitate automated testing code reviews and establish best practices for automated tests
• Perform project-level staff planning to identify key/required skills and engineers
• Work closely with Project and Program Managers to ensure that program schedules are complete and committed to by the team
• Work closely with Scrum Masters and POs to ensure that all development activities occur in a timely manner and to the level of quality demanded by the business requirements
• Organize and coordinate team, project, and release activities with the PMO, Product Managers and Engineering Leadership team
• Hire and train/retain top talent on the team

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working within a Product development organisation and therefore contributing to mid/long-term product roadmap and lifecycle
• Experience testing distributed, scalable and low latency solutions
• Experience with Linux OS system management
• Hands on experience with Kubernetes, Docker, or containerisation concepts

Benefits

• Competitive healthcare coverage
• Wellness programs
• Take it when you need it time off
• Parental leave
• Recognition programs