Director, Quality Engineering

Altice USA•Town of Oyster Bay, NY

7d•$155,509 - $255,479

About The Position

We are Optimum, a leader in the fast-paced world of connectivity, and we're seeking driven and enthusiastic professionals to join our team, empower lives, fuel businesses, and drive innovation. Connectivity is no longer a luxury, but a necessity. A career at Optimum means you'll be enabling progress and enhancing lives by providing reliable, high-speed connectivity solutions that keep the world connected. Our successes, now and in the future, are powered by our amazing product, a commitment to our people and culture, and the connections we make in our communities. If you are resourceful, collaborative, and passionate about delivering consistent excellence, Optimum is for you! Job Summary Reporting to the VP of Product Operations and Quality, the Director of Software Test Automation will manage a team of highly skilled software developers to automate our testing processes and tools with an aim to eliminate manual testing entirely and contribute to a flawless customer experience across all Altice products including broadband, video, mobile and web applications. We are looking for a passionate and engaged individual who is willing to take on the challenge of transforming software development at a Fortune 500 company and building the tools that will allow our development teams to Go Fast!

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field.
Minimum 7 years of experience in software development, test automation, and tools.
Experience with strategy development and execution for test automation.
Experience managing teams of software developers.
Proficiency in programming languages (Python, Java, C#)
Experience with Google cloud or Amazon Web Services and their capabilities.
Thorough understanding of software methodologies and DevOps practices.
Experience with the implementation and optimization CI/CD Pipelines.
Good intuition for software design, actively looking to learn from other teams and projects.
Experience with data formats and locality with performance considerations.
Demonstrated experience solving performance and data issues by applying experience/knowledge.
Completely comfortable working with live production systems, debugging issues and taking careful actions with protections against damage.
Contributes to establishing and maintaining corporate policies related to technology.
Applicants must be authorized to work for ANY employer in the U.S.
Please note that at this time, we do not provide visa sponsorship for employment.

Nice To Haves

Master’s preferred.

Responsibilities

Lead to the creation of our strategy for test automation and software development at Optimum.
Establish our software development testing roadmap to eliminate manual tasks.
Execute on the implementation of our automation testing processes.
Automate our end-to-end testing capabilities across all products including broadband, video, customer support and technician support tools to 80% automated test coverage.
Introduce capabilities to do effective A/B testing of releases across test populations.
Leverage developer tools and test automation to transform our software release processes and enable the development teams to get capabilities to customers faster.
Create a structured knowledge base that allows teams to create, maintain and extend documentation for all our developer tools and processes.
Establish and gain acceptance for Key Results indicated by our development pipeline and automation test frameworks.
Use and customize out of the box tools to instrument and monitor systems.
Use prototypes and proof of concepts as the primary tool for deep and detailed explorations of architecture and software designs.
Prioritize and eliminate technical debt.
Go-to advocate for test automation across the company.
Owns 3+ scrums with accountability for the results.
Continue to make Optimum a Developer Friendly Environment.