Roles & Responsibilities:
An ideal candidate will be an established leader that takes a hands-on approach with deep understanding of QA test activities, QA metrics working with Engineering, QA, Release mgmt and Program teams. The candidate will have a strong shift-left mindset driven by data and enabling teams to improve product quality at scale. The candidate will lead and grow a team of QA managers, QA Engineers and TPM / PgM across various locations. This leader takes end-to-end ownership and consistently delivers results in a fast-paced environment. They are a leader that the team loves to work with because they inspire, develop, and care for their team members.
Preferred Skills:
Successful track record of instrumenting tools, automation and processes at scale for frontend and backend QA activities (Unit, Integration, User journey, Load, payment, regression testing)
Deep understanding of QA automation workflows, CICD release pipelines, test environments across multiple products and release within an agile development framework
Experience of working with frontend (iOS, Android, Web, Roku, CTV) and backend engineering and QA teams to coordinate dependencies and release planning preferably in OTT video market segment
Experience in leading and reporting on deploying Release Candidates across multiple products in multiple regions.
Experience using various tools and technologies such as JIRA, Confluence, GitHub
Experience working with DevOps teams to drive improvements in Release Tools pipeline for automated tracking and reporting on release artifacts : JIRA items, sprint scope, bug report, test report, release notes.
Coordinate and track 3rd party releases and ensure releases do not conflict with other releases and events.
Qualifications
What to Bring:
18 - 21 years of experience in building and growing a distributed team of release managers with strong skills in devOps workflows as it relates to branching strategy, semantic versioning, sprint planning, dependency management, different test activities and release tracking at global scale.
5+ years experience in large scale global product launches thru a scalable automated release pipeline workflow leveraging CICD workflows and QA automation workflows.
Experience driving change throughout comprising of product, engineering, QA, operations functional areas.
You have experience and understanding of developing and managing automated CICD workflows for various iOS, Android, Roku, etc client platform apps and services.
You understand complexity and ability to simplify process, tools and automation to enable feature velocity without losing quality
You work across other platform teams that integrate with release tooling pipelines for instrumenting execution of automated testing and deployments
You have strong skills and experience across various technologies: GitHub, Github Actions, CircleCI, Spinnaker, Jenkins, Docker/Kubernetes, gitOps flows.
You provide guidance and expertise on system options, risk and impact management, as well as cost vs. benefit analysis
You uphold and ensure security requirements for tooling, systems, and environments are met and protect the assets of the company and our customers
You have experience in leading troubleshooting of system and performance problems in Prod/QA/Dev environments
You have ability to identify improvements to reduce technical debt streamlining towards a global platform service
You have the ability to work collaboratively within a team environment to meet aggressive goals and pre-defined measurement criteria
You have excellent written communication, problem solving, process management, cross-team collaboration and high customer empathy
Strive in a culture of innovation – always exploring ways to say yes and try out new ideas and living outside your comfort zone
You are comfortable handling multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
You influence teams and groups outside your wider organization with your deep insight and strategic thinking.
BS/MS in Computer Science or a related technical field
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