Senior Manager Quality Engineering

Empower • Overland Park, KS

13d • $105,700 - $149,275 • Onsite

About The Position

The Sr Mgr Quality Engineering will oversee a team responsible for quality assurance and testing, automation, metrics, reporting, and defect reduction across projects throughout the organization. This role will provide hands-on leadership in quality standards, processes, and best practices while ensuring appropriate visibility into product quality throughout development and before major releases.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent job experience.
• Six years of testing experience.
• Extensive experience with test strategy, planning, reporting, and coordination for software projects and applications.
• Ability to motivate, influence, and lead quality assurance teams toward high-quality product releases.
• Strong analytical and creative problem-solving skills.
• Proven ability to prioritize, organize, and deliver on commitments.
• Exceptional attention to detail.
• Proven ability to adopt new technologies with ease.
• Client or customer management experience.
• Strong problem-solving, issue-resolution, negotiation, and diplomacy skills.
• Ability to identify risks and recommend mitigations for project delays.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams throughout the enterprise.

Nice To Haves

• Experience working with engineering teams in an Agile environment.
• A high-energy, driven leadership style.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of Quality Engineers and Business Systems Analysts on quality assurance best practices, including manual and automated testing.
• Oversee the execution of quality assurance and testing, automation, metrics, reporting, and defect tracking and reduction across organizational projects.
• Review test plans and oversee the bug-tracking lifecycle, metrics development and tracking, test automation, and performance testing.
• Develop and coordinate test strategies, plans, and reporting for software projects and applications.
• Help establish downstream quality assurance best practices across cross-functional teams.
• Provide appropriate visibility into quality during development and before major product releases.
• Improve standards, best practices, and processes related to test plan creation, test cases, and domestic and global quality assurance metrics.
• Collaborate with development, project management, business, management, and other teams throughout the enterprise.
• Manage an offshore quality assurance team.
• Conduct performance reviews, approve vacation and PAL requests, manage performance issues, and exercise hiring and termination authority.
• Train, coach, mentor, and direct the work of direct reports.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision and life insurance
• Retirement savings – 401(k) plan with generous company matching contributions (up to 6%), financial advisory services, potential company discretionary contribution, and a broad investment lineup
• Tuition reimbursement up to $5,250/year
• Business-casual environment that includes the option to wear jeans
• Generous paid time off upon hire – including a paid time off program plus ten paid company holidays and three floating holidays each calendar year
• Paid volunteer time — 16 hours per calendar year
• Leave of absence programs – including paid parental leave, paid short- and long-term disability, and Family and Medical Leave (FMLA)
• Business Resource Groups (BRGs) – BRGs facilitate inclusion and collaboration across our business internally and throughout the communities where we live, work and play. BRGs are open to all.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior