Senior Manager, SDET

Summary

Join Zuora as a Sr. SDET Manager and establish quality best practices across all teams. You will build and lead a team of talented engineers, driving quality throughout the SDLC. This role requires a broad understanding of the Zuora ecosystem and collaboration with various departments. You will be responsible for hiring, retaining, and developing a high-performing team. The position is location-specific, requiring regular in-office presence. Zuora offers a competitive compensation and benefits package, including health insurance, paid time off, parental leave, and professional development opportunities.

Requirements

• Degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering, or relevant education/experience
• 10+ years in software testing, test automation or test development role
• 5+ years of experience in managing and growing high performing teams that works with teams globally
• Proven experience with delivering high quality software products within a full development lifecycle
• Good understanding of OO programming and concepts, preferably Java
• Knowledge of automated tools, testing frameworks and CICD
• Good verbal & written communication skills and demonstrates the ability to collaborate across teams and organizations
• Works well in an entrepreneurial, team environment and is willing to remain vocal with thoughts and ideas

Responsibilities

• Hire, retain and grow world class test engineers that will drive quality across Product and Technology
• Establish and implement quality best practices and set the quality bar using metrics and release criteria
• Influence product quality by surfacing risks, trade-offs, and impact to customers
• Technical capacity to guide the team in developing tools, frameworks, & test automation
• Empower team to drive quality focused discussions (test plan reviews, bug triage, customer issues)
• Build partnership across the organization to better understand how our customers interact and use our products to enable us to innovate our testing practices
• Broad understanding of CI systems and ability to come up with improvements to drive efficiency

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience testing in a distributed system, service-oriented architecture or SaaS product is a big plus
• Experience with CI systems and tools and good understanding of test pipelines
• Strong grasp of various QA and SDLC methodologies. Experience with Agile Methodology is a plus
• Working knowledge of Cloud technologies (Docker, AWS) is a plus

Benefits

• Competitive compensation, corporate bonus program and performance rewards, company equity and retirement programs
• Medical, dental and vision insurance
• Generous, flexible time off
• Paid holidays, “wellness” days and company wide end of year break
• 6 months fully paid parental leave
• Learning & Development stipend
• Opportunities to volunteer and give back, including charitable donation match
• Free resources and support for your mental wellbeing