QA Manager
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Job Location:
San Francisco, CA - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
30+ days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Quality Engineering Manager
As Zendesks Quality Engineering Manager you will define and implement processes and tools that improve our manual and automated QA processes. You will be testing a highly technical multi-tiered SaaS product while gracefully handling curveballs in our fast-paced development environment. Your passion for automation and the release of flawless software makes you want to own this role. Bring your zest for working in a fun company where your participation in making a GREAT product is really valued.
What you get to do every day:
- Help establish manual and automated QA process to fit into overall software development lifecycle. We deploy features every week and patches more frequently.
- Build empower and manage a team doing QA across the application stack
- Drive the creation of repeatable test plans and black box test frameworks for all product components
- Recommend and implement improvements to our automation tools keeping abreast of the latest tools and standards across all platforms
- Align with Engineering Management to ensure on-time delivery of high quality features
- Manage quality metrics on multiple simultaneous software development projects to ensure success of strategic Zendesk goals
- Work closely with management to determine feasibility of product features
- Be able to adjust to competing priorities allocating your time as necessary to get things done
What you bring to the role:
- BSCS or related with a minimum of 5 years experience doing hands-on Quality Assurance/Engineering for high-availability web applications
- 2 years hiring managing and mentoring QA staff
- Well versed in Quality and Software development best practices and standards with a comfort and condent in working with Product Development and Service Engineering
- Familiarity with test automation frameworks such as Selenium Watir or similar tools and experience using these tools as part of the QA process
- Experience working with Continuous Integration servers Hudson Jenkins strongly preferred
- Track record of participating in the delivery of high quality software projects on-time using Agile methodologies
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills both written and verbal
Required Experience:
Manager
Key Skills
- Quality Assurance
- FDA Regulations
- Food Industry
- Food Safety Experience
- ISO 9001
- Quality Systems
- Food Processing
- Quality Control
- Quality Management
- QA/QC
- Selenium
- HACCP
