Key Responsibilities
Quality Leadership
- Drive definition, development, and deployment of comprehensive automated testing strategies including functional, system, performance, stress, security, load, reliability, and longevity tests
- Define and enforce quality release criteria and establish clear Definition of Done (DoD) and Definition of Ready (DoR) standards
- Identify risks and collaborate with product development teams to prevent critical issues before production release
- Be data-driven: identify, generate, and provide quality metrics to substantiate quality improvements
- Present quality plans, testing methodologies, and results to stakeholders, building trust and confidence
Technical Excellence
- Spearhead test automation architecture, test suites, and infrastructure by understanding underlying product architecture in a cost-effective manner
- Implement state-of-the-art quality engineering methodologies to uncover potential bottlenecks in performance, defects, risks, and user experience
- Work with stakeholders to diagnose, debug, and perform root cause analysis for issues in production and test environments
- Establish and maintain processes to meet standards compliance such as SOC2/FedRamp
Team Leadership
- Lead and grow a team of engineers working across on-premise and SaaS services
- Recruit, challenge, and reward high-performance individuals to build a high-performing organization
- Coach and mentor team members, fostering a positive culture that embraces change and drives simple solutions to complex problems
- Be a trusted partner for senior management, helping drive alignment and implementing decisions throughout your team
Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Build relationships with Product Management, DevOps, SRE, Service, and Customer success teams
- Collaborate with customers and Customer Success teams to identify and resolve product issues, close testing gaps, and enhance usability
- Ensure alignment across functions and effective communication of relevant information
- Foster a culture of positive collaboration, safety to learn from failure, and continuous improvement
- Proactively provide solutions rather than just identifying problems
Qualifications
Required Experience
- Minimum 8+ years of experience in quality engineering (Automation, API/UI, CI/CD)
- Minimum 3+ years as a software quality engineering leader in a fast-paced environment supporting at least 5+ scrum teams
- At least 2 years of experience in CI/CD environment
- BS degree in Electrical Engineering/Computer Science or related field or equivalent
- Experience with automation framework design, continuous integration, and continuous deployment best practices
- Experience with REST/gRPC/gQL API-based products and services (One or more of Postman, REST Assured, pytest)
- Knowledge of Atlassian tools, Git, Harness, or similar tools
- Thorough understanding of different testing types at scale in distributed microservice architectures
Soft Skills
- Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills
- Self-starter with exceptional attention to detail
- Customer focus, sense of urgency, and accountability
- Ability to manage diverse teams and collaborate with geographically distributed teams
- Keen business acumen, ability to influence without authority
- Willingness to ask questions and challenge the status quo
Nice to Have
- Experience with open source testing tools and frameworks: JMeter, Selenium, locust
- Hands-on experience with Harness
- Spearheaded the adoption of shift-left test practices
- Cloud IaaS knowledge, especially in AWS/GCP
- Experience managing quality for enterprise customers
- Familiarity with KubeMonkey and other Chaos testing tools
- Exposure to code coverage, DAST/SAST tools such as NexusIQ, SonarQube
Work Location
- Bangalore. The successful candidate will be expected to be in the Bangalore office 3x/ week.
What You Will Have at Harness
- Experience building a transformative product
- End-to-end ownership of your projects
- Competitive salary
- Comprehensive healthcare benefit
- Flexible work schedule
- Quarterly Harness TGIF-Off / 4 days
- Paid Time Off and Parental Leave
- Monthly, quarterly, and annual social and team building events
- Monthly internet reimbursement
Harness in the news:
- Harness Grabs a $150m Line of Credit
- Welcome Split!
- SF Business Times - 2024 - 100 Fastest-Growing Private Companies in the Bay Area
- Forbes - 2024 America's Best Startup Employers
- SF Business Times - 2024 Fastest Growing Private Companies Awards
- Fast Co - 2024 100 Best Workplaces for Innovators
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex or national origin.
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