Quality Engineering Manager

Summary

Join Nextech, a leader in specialty healthcare technology solutions, as a Manager, Quality Engineering. You will lead globally distributed teams of quality assurance engineers, software engineers in test, and automation engineers. This hands-on role requires strong technical skills, experience in test strategy and automation, and leadership abilities. You will be responsible for test automation development, CI/CD, and regression test suites. Nextech offers competitive pay, a generous bonus structure, great healthcare, a comprehensive wellness program, and many other benefits. The role involves working with cross-functional teams to ensure high-quality feature delivery and continuous process improvement.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in IT Management or relevant field
• Solid knowledge of C#, Angular, SQL, and cloud hosting
• 7-10 years industry experience, including testing of robust, scalable micro-service back ends
• 3+ years’ experience managing and leading quality engineering teams working on enterprise products in a high-growth, fast-paced system software engineering company
• Ability to create, analyze, and publish quality metrics and measures across teams to communicate release quality, and deliver status updates to senior management
• Hands-on experience with industry-standard test automation tools and frameworks, such as Selenium, Playwright, RestAssured, Pact, JMeter and Azure load testing tools
• Experience in CI/CD tools like Azure DevOps/GitHub Pipelines
• Knowledge of various software testing methods (Regression, Load/Stress, Code Coverage Analysis, Black/White box testing, Acceptance, Performance
• Experience recommending and implementing best practices to improve quality engineering workflows and increase team productivity
• Experience with test management tools (e.g., Zephyr, TestRail, XRay, Qtest, Quality Center)

Responsibilities

• Lead a globally distributed team of QAE’s, SET’s, and Automation Engineers working on a world-class platform consisting of data processes, micro services and web applications built using cloud native technologies
• Establish a strong connection between customer scenarios and pre-release test coverage and automation
• Lead design and building of automated tests for Nextech’s products
• Automate the right tests at the right level: unit, integration, contract, API and UI
• Evangelize quality engineering best practices with Product, Development and DevOps teams around testing roadmap, tools and framework
• Establish quality assurance best practices and benchmarks and drive adoption across the QA team
• Drive continuous improvements in product testing processes (test plans, automation, testing resources, etc.)
• Own Load Testing initiative to ensure our platforms scale effectively and we maintain the highest level of availability
• Drive transformation for enterprise performance testing and engineering framework
• Improve product delivery cycles through the integration of testing into the agile delivery cycle
• Empower team to learn and grow and support them in their career goals
• A willingness to work on additional tasks and responsibilities that will positively contribute towards team, department, and company goals
• Prioritize multiple competing priorities

Preferred Qualifications

• Proficiency in test engineering within the payments sector
• Familiarity with Stripe for payment processing solutions
• Skilled in using Git and GitHub for version control and collaboration
• In-depth experience with Microsoft Azure and Azure DevOps for cloud computing and development operations
• Practical experience with Jira for project management and issue tracking
• Understanding of medical systems, including relevant processes and guidelines

Benefits

• Generous annual bonus opportunity
• 401(k) with Employer Match
• Flexible Time Off: take time off when you need it without worrying about available hours
• 10 paid holidays + 1 floating holiday
• Volunteer Time Off
• Insurance: Choice of Medical, Dental, and Vision plans
• Health Savings Account with employer match
• Flexible Spending Account
• 100% Company-Paid Parental leave
• 100% Company-Paid Life Insurance and Short/Long Term Disability Insurance
• ICREATE Employee Recognition Program
• Wellness Program including discounts on medical premiums
• Employee Assistance Program with free counseling sessions available
• Corporate Discounts on Retail, Travel, and Entertainment
• Pet Insurance options
• Remote