Senior Manager - Software Test Engineering
This is a remote-based position preferably located in vicinity of San Jose CA, Petaluma CA, or Minneapolis MN.
As a Senior Manager of Functional Test Engineering, you will play a major role in adopting a “Shift Left” QA model where we focus on implementing automation and quality early in the development process. This is a technical role to manage software development testing and test automation across our Access platforms software including infrastructure, PON and L2/L3 areas. You will be a critical technical leader who will collaborate with other area owners to establish best practices for test planning, functional testing and biasing towards automation to deliver high quality products.
Responsibilities And Duties:
Responsible to define and manage functional testing and test automation for our Access platforms software including Infrastructure, PON and L2/L3 areas.
Bring high energy, effectiveness at managing relationships (up, down, across), and ability to roll-up your sleeves to get the job done.
Serve as a QA lead and work with the leads of other disciplines to increase the QA impact on the end products.
Interact with stakeholders to gather insights and translate technical concepts.
Mitigate risk and escalate to technology leadership as appropriate.
Develop and increase team performance and collaboration across organization.
Design, implement, and document procedures for process control, process improvement, testing and CI/CD.
Establish and implement metrics to monitor system effectiveness and enable making sound product quality decisions.
Oversee and direct the development of new test frameworks and applications to ensure the implementation of manual and automated test solutions.
Think strategically to help drive features and services for short and long-term growth.
Provide team oversight during the full software development life cycle, from conception, design, implementation and testing to documentation, delivery and maintenance.
Create testing and automation strategies and approaches in alignment with overall organizational goals.
Work collaboratively with development and the QA team to identify test cases and suites best suited for automation. Have an ability to influence across boundaries and at all levels of the organization.
Create a fun, fast paced, motivating and rewarding environment for teams and the organization.
Attract, build and retain a highly engaged and capable quality assurance teams that can deliver on our technology and business strategies.
Qualifications
Calix requires all employees based in North America who will work onsite at a Calix office, attend in-person meetings, and/or travel on behalf of Calix to be fully vaccinated. Calix will consider requests for reasonable accommodations as required under applicable law.
BS/MS degree in CS, EE, or related field.
10+ years of experience as a test engineer with focus on both manual and automated testing.
5+ years of experience in a leadership role for quality assurance for networking systems and embedded software.
Working knowledge of Linux based software, IP protocols, PON software and/or L2/L3 switching and routing/BNG software, network management software in data center or access networking products.
Experience in using various bug tracking tools such as Jira, and test management tools such as XRay.
Experience in working in a CI/CD environment preferably with a modern build release model that supports continuous delivery.
Experience in working in a Cloud Ecosystem is desired.
Proven track record in leading the architecture, design, development and operations of enterprise scale testing frameworks, processes, methodologies for diverse environments, solutions, and products.
Proficiency in QA methodologies, software testing principles, concepts, verification/ validation techniques, and test management.
Excellent analytical, research, documentation, project planning and implementation skills.
Skills to communicate effectively cross-functionally across various teams, organizations and internal and external stakeholders to drive engineering effort
Self-motivated and excellent problems-solver.
Ability to adapt and willingness to learn new technologies and techniques.
Effectively lead and manage change within their area of responsibility as well as across the business.
Location:
Remote-based position preferably located in vicinity of San Jose CA, Petaluma CA, or Minneapolis MN.
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