Senior Manager, Quality Engineering

Zwift • Long Beach, CA

4d • Onsite

About The Position

The Senior Manager, Quality Engineering will lead a team of QA Analysts and Automation Engineers, applying creative testing methodologies that span both hardware and software development. This role involves strategically organizing the QA team for optimal coverage while fostering close relationships with Software and Hardware Engineers, Product Managers, Program Managers, Release Engineers, Customer Support, and Tools teams. The position requires collaboration with distributed teams across multiple locations, guiding the design and development of testing strategies, and implementing/enhancing QA Automation Engineering processes for predictable, high-quality product releases. A key aspect of this role is building and growing an exceptional QA team through effective hiring, coaching, and management, as well as gathering and analyzing metrics to demonstrate business value and continuous improvement. The position will manage 2 QA Analysts and 5 QA Automation Engineers.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Information Systems, Marketing with coursework in Quality Control, Statistics, Economic and Mathematical Modeling, or related field.
• At least two (2) years of post-baccalaureate experience as a QA Engineer, Business Development Manager or in a related position.
• At least 1 year of experience managing a test engineering team.
• At least 2 years of software test automation experience, including game testing.
• SQL.
• Sauce Labs.
• Browserstack.
• Test Case Management.
• Continuous Integration.
• QA methodologies, tools and automation engineering practices.
• API Test Automation.
• Postman and Swagger.
• Jenkins for CI/CD.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of QA Analysts and Automation Engineers.
• Apply creative testing methodologies that straddle both hardware and software development.
• Strategically organize QA team to offer the best coverage while maintaining close relationships with our Software and Hardware Engineers, Product Managers, Program Managers, Release Engineers, Customer Support, and Tools teams.
• Collaborate with Product and Engineering teams distributed across multiple locations.
• Guide the design and development of testing strategies based on project requirements.
• Implement and enhance QA Automation Engineering process and standardization, to ensure delivery of predictable, high-quality product releases.
• Build and grow a team of exceptional QA Analysts and QA Automation Engineers.
• Effectively hire, coach, and manage diverse QA teams.
• Gather, analyze and report on metrics to demonstrate business value and continuous improvement.

What This Job Offers

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