Senior Engineering Manager Global Test & Automation

Job Purpose:

The highly skilled Senior Engineering Manager Test & Automation will guide our software development team in delivering high-quality scalable and innovative solutions as well as sustaining efforts of our current portfolio. This role combines hands-on technical expertise with leadership responsibilities ensuring that projects are executed efficiently while fostering a culture of collaboration growth and technical excellence. Direct leadership accountability for digital teams in India and Germany. The role will report into the Portfolio Manager Global Test & Automation and is responsible for one or more of the companys digital product offerings.

Duties:

Leadership Mentorship & Cultural Awareness

• Lead mentor and inspire a team of software test engineers fostering professional growth and technical mastery.
• Conduct regular one-on-one sessions performance reviews and provide constructive feedback.
• Demonstrate strong communication empathy and active listening skills to build trust and cohesion within the team.
• Cultivate an inclusive environment that values diverse perspectives backgrounds and working styles.
• Adapt leadership approaches to different cultural contexts ensuring collaboration across global or cross-functional teams.
• Promote psychological safety encouraging open dialogue respectful debate and constructive feedback.

Onboarding & Knowledge Transfer

• Drive effective onboarding processes for new team members ensuring they quickly gain the technical and domain knowledge needed to contribute successfully.
• Establish and maintain clear documentation coding standards and best practices to support long-term team efficiency.
• Promote structured knowledge-sharing sessions pair programming and cross-training to reduce single points of failure and build resilience within the team.
• Foster a culture where expertise is openly shared enabling smooth transitions when responsibilities shift and ensuring continuity across projects
• Leads and develops employees through strong influential skills & using a performance management and development process that provides an overall context and framework to engage employee contribution with goal setting feedback and performance development planning.
• Collaborates with Human Resources to build and develop capabilities reduce single points of failure depth and diverse team to deliver against the product and technical roadmaps.
• Leverage resource capacity including assignments training leave management telecommuting and administers continuous performance review program to ensure effectiveness compliance and equity within the organization.

  Technical Ownership & Project Delivery

• Oversee the design development and deployment of software solutions.
• Ensure adherence to coding standards best practices and architectural guidelines.
• Participate in reviews and contribute to hands-on development when needed.
• Collaborate with product managers product owners designers and stakeholders to define requirements and translate them into technical solutions.
• Manage sprint planning task allocation and delivery timelines.
• Identify risks resolve blockers and ensure projects are delivered on time and within scope.
• Strive for 100% say-do ratio meaning we deliver on our commitments
• Owner of technical competencies within assigned area and facilitator/promoter to ensure these technologies are leveraged across the wider organization.
• Suggests and supports changes to systems tools and processes to optimize overall business performance.
• Participates in strategic planning process for the relevant product
• Works with Service to implement service concepts and requirements into new designs technology and development.
• Works with Quality to ensure product quality during design and production.
• Collaborates closely with product line teams to transfer digital technologies from development into the new product introduction process.
• Adheres to the digital development process as well as the product lifecycle

  Innovation & Continuous Improvement

• Stay updated with emerging technologies and industry trends.
• Drive process adherence improvements automation and efficiency within the team.
• Champion a culture of innovation knowledge sharing and continuous learning.

Troubleshooting & Problem Solving

• Act as the escalation point for complex technical issues guiding the team in diagnosing and resolving problems efficiently.
• Apply and teach structured problem-solving techniques to identify root causes and implement sustainable solutions.
• Encourage a proactive mindset within the team ensuring potential issues are anticipated and mitigated before they impact delivery.
• Balance short-term fixes with long-term improvements to maintain system stability and scalability.
• Think solutions rather than problems

Qualifications :

Technical Knowledge Skills and Abilities:

Education/Training:

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science Software Engineering or related field.
• Proven experience (5 years) in software quality assurance with at least 2 years in a leadership role.
• Strong proficiency in testing methodologies test management and automation tools
• Certificate of ISTQB Certified Tester Advanced Level Test Management advantageous
• Solid understanding of software architecture design patterns and agile methodologies.
• Excellent problem-solving communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to balance technical depth with strategic leadership.
• Fluent in English
• Continuous improvement.
• Significant progressive experience in product development and engineering. Prior experience with system integration and/or as an architect in multiple software/system projects.
• Knowledgeable in program management; hardware software & product design development activities including advanced process & development technology.
• Understanding of technical challenges within key markets digital preferred
• Effective communicator and leader makes commitments and delivers on promises.
• Ability to read analyze and interpret general business periodicals professional journals technical procedures.
• Ability to write reports business correspondence and procedure manuals.
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers clients customers and the general public

Competencies and Abilities

Execution focus and results-driven: The ability and motivation to persistently pursue and achieve effective results which drive the business forward

The key measure of success will be the attainment of milestones and KPIs on time and within budget for each initiative overseen. This can be demonstrated by:

• Setting and communicating KPIs and targets
• Adopting a routine planning and reporting to monitor implementation progress across various KPI targets
• Executing in a disciplined and focused manner keeping in mind the big picture
• Prioritizing effectively to focus time and effort on issues of the highest importance and urgency
• Identifying root causes of issues developing pragmatic approaches to resolve these and deploying the appropriate resources to act on these

Collaboration and Influencing: The ability to engage challenge and work effectively with others and build an effective network of relationships both internally and externally.

It is essential that this individual can get along and to argue their point of view without alienating others. The key measure of success will be a balanced and motivated team who can leverage each others skills and establish long-term partnerships across the various stakeholders within the business and externally with customers. Can be demonstrated by:

• Exceeding customer expectations and program delivery by engaging both team and stakeholders
• Using communication channels to align people to exceed delivery expectations
• Develop and coach team to leverage informal networks to ensure on time delivery
• Invests in building relationships with others to ensure an integrated team approach including effective collaboration across sites and cultures

Decision making: The ability to make effective timely decisions in a complex global market by sourcing and analyzing critical information

• Decisive conscientious and able to interact well in a team environment
• Analytical and problem-solving skills

Change management: Willing and able to identify and support change and continuous improvement in own and wider business environment

Leadership: The ability to effectively lead engage develop and manage the performance of people by being a role model to others monitoring progress on objectives and behaviors and coaching others for success

• Directly or indirectly manage degreed staff in a global matrixed environment
• Identify potential talent

Additional Information :

We offer

Join us and well help build your career with excellent training and opportunities for career growth across the business both locally and globally. Youll experience an inclusive environment with strong leadership and a focus on safety and wellbeing. Youll also have the flexibility to choose from a wide range of benefits to suit your lifestyle offering you and your family support from a health and wellbeing financial and lifestyle perspective.

Join us and work for a world-leader with the benefits and training to reward your dedication and skills. Be part of a team where we are making the world a safer place.

Diversity & Inclusion:

We believe that different perspectives and backgrounds are what make a company flourish. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment regardless of race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin economic status disability age or any other legally protected characteristics. We are proud to be an inclusive company with values grounded in equality and ethics where we celebrate support and embrace diversity.

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Employment Type :

Full-time