Sr. Manager of Technology - Testing and Automation

About the position

As Senior Manager of Technology with a focus on Automation and Performance Testing at BECU, you will be at the forefront of driving our quality initiatives, ensuring the alignment of technology strategies with business goals. You'll modernize our platforms and enhance our digital transformation through the adoption of cutting-edge testing practices. Your leadership and expertise will be critical in driving the shift to more automated, efficient, and scalable solutions. With your focus on agile methodologies and Automated Testing practices, you will play a key role in improving the software development lifecycle and empowering teams to deliver impactful results. Your contributions will ensure that BECU remains a leader in innovation and technology.

Responsibilities

• Drive Technology Alignment: Ensure that technology and testing initiatives are in sync with BECU's strategic goals.
• Innovate and Lead: Identify market-leading technology and systems testing solutions to meet business needs.
• Develop and Mentor Teams: Provide ongoing coaching, mentoring, and training to your team.
• Manage Projects and Delivery: Oversee technical requirements, engineering, and the delivery of key projects.
• Collaborate with Business Units: Work with business teams to support specific technology platforms.
• Improve Engineering Practices: Lead efforts to continuously improve engineering practices across the software development lifecycle.
• Build a Testing-Centered Culture: Promote a quality-first mindset across teams.
• Deliver Test Strategy and Roadmaps: Create and evolve test roadmaps that introduce cutting-edge automation and performance testing approaches.
• Define and Report Testing Metrics: Deliver regular testing and performance metrics to executive stakeholders.
• Uplift QA Talent and Culture: Mentor a diverse team of testing professionals.
• Build a Testing Center of Excellence: Establish best practices, standards, and methodologies for quality engineering.
• Ensure Timely Delivery: Oversee the delivery of projects to business areas.
• Contribute to Governance and Planning: Participate in governance meetings and business planning.
• Vendor and Partner Collaboration: Manage vendor relationships and oversee external partners.
• Develop Product Roadmaps: Define and optimize product roadmaps with key stakeholders.
• Foster Continuous Learning: Stay current with the latest trends in technology.
• Build a High-Performance Team: Create and sustain a high-performance culture.

Requirements

• Typically requires a bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science or a related field.
• Typically requires 3 years of People Leader experience, with a focus on managing testing teams.
• Experience leading technology teams.
• Typically requires 5 years of experience in information technology with demonstrated expertise in DevOps practices, cloud infrastructure, system automation, and performance testing.
• Domain experience with Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and/or Infrastructure/Operations and/or financial products experience.

Nice-to-haves

• Demonstrated experience with performance testing, scalability testing, and load testing in cloud and on-prem environments.
• Experience building technology platforms and teams.
• Experience with automated testing tools such as Selenium, JUnit, TestNG, and Cucumber.
• Experience with performance testing tools like JMeter and LoadRunner.
• Knowledge of continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) tools such as Azure Devops, Jenkins, GitLab CI, and CircleCI.
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.
• Advance degree preferred.
• Delivery experience working under an Agile/Scrum methodology preferred.
• Working experience of software engineering best practices including coding standards, change management, manage incidents, CI/CD, build processes, testing, and operations preferred.
• Technology fundamentals, design, problem solving, and complexity analysis preferred.
• Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and product management.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision and life insurance coverage.
• Disability and AD&D insurance.
• Health care and dependent care flexible spending accounts.
• Health savings accounts.
• 401k plan and employer-funded retirement plan.
• Accrue 6.16 hours of paid time off (PTO) on a per pay period basis.
• Receive ten paid holidays throughout the calendar year.