
Sr. Manager, SW QA Engineering - CET - India - Hybrid
- India
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Manage the Central Engineering QA team responsible for leading test automation framework and tool development, solutions testing and managing internal hybrid cloud deployments
- Work with team for solution testing strategy with focus on automation, enterprise use case cases and end-to-end solutions
- Closely collaborate with peer development and QA teams, architecture, sales, customer support and product line management and jointly develop test strategies
- As a key member of the Engineering management staff, contribute to the vision and strategy of continuous integration, improved development/QA processes, quality and productivity of test functions
- Ensuring timely test case execution with a customer quality focus
- Recognize process and product gaps early and able to drive changes to achieve better outcomes
- Understand product architecture, and their implications on feature, system and solution testing
- Managing resources effectively to deliver commitments on schedule
- Cultivate a high performing team and constantly raising the bar
- Ability to attract, groom and retain top talent
- 15+ years of hands on quality, development and/or automation experience in virtualization and networking space
- Experience in L2/L3 protocols, Network management and scripting knowledge (Python/TCL/PERL).
- Hand-on experience with various test automation framework (Robot, PyTest) and knowledge on Terraform, Ansible, Chef
- Demonstrated experience in testing highly scalable and fault tolerant systems including software upgrade, distributed control and redundancy.
- Technical knowledge of current virtualization software, tools, protocols and standards, including vCenter, VMware ESXi,NSX-T, Nutanix
- Experience building and managing vCenter Server and ESXi hosts, preferably in VMware 6.x and 7.x
- Working knowledge of Public/Private Clouds Amazon EC2, Azure, OpenStack, OpenShift or any other cloud platforms
- Deep understanding of full product life cycle, software development methods (both Agile and Waterfall), and development/test and build environments
- Ability to undertake loosely defined goals or complex problems to create order, and drive to closure.
- Ability to organize, delegate, and effectively deliver to large and complex programs.
- Ability to drive multi-geo projects by working effectively with remote teams.
- Ability to thrive in fast-paced, highly dynamic environment, with a bias towards action and results
- Conflict resolution skills including ability to bridge style difference.
- Excellent interpersonal, verbal, listening, and written communication skills, both within the team and across the organization.
- Ability to mentor/coach/teach/facilitate and lead change in a highly technical/dynamic team.
- BS in CS or EE, MS strongly preferred.