Senior Manager, Quality Engineering (India)

Overview: symplr is looking for a Senior Quality Engineering Manager to drive the quality initiatives for symplr products. This person will be responsible for leading a team of quality engineers. By working closely with engineering as well as center of excellence team, they will be responsible for devising and implementing test strategy for regression, UI &API; automation as well as load & performance testing efforts for their product. Duties & Responsibilities: - Work closely with engineering and product teams to drive quality engineering initiatives for the product - Directly manage a team of quality engineers in Bangalore as well as remotely. - Work closely with the onshore quality team to align on the quality strategy and execution. - Work with globally dispersed teams and stakeholders to ensure features are released on time with highest quality. - Provide technical direction to both onshore and offshore quality engineers executing test strategy - Drive the test automation efforts for their product - Work with the performance testing team to ensure the product is tested for load, stress and endurance - Analyze test results, communicate issues and report any defects - Escalate risks and dependencies encountered during testing process - Understand quality metrics and drive positive changes based on the metrics Skills Required: - Excellent communication and interpersonal skills - Must be proactive, passionate and able to work in a fast-paced environment - Should be able to work with minimum supervision - Highly organized, creative, motivated, and passionate about achieving results - Strong technical and analytical skills with positive understanding of how web and mobile application stacks work - Bachelors degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics, or a related field - 13-15 years experience in software quality engineering - 5+ years of leading and managing quality teams - Experience working in an agile environment with distributed engineering teams - Experience with establishing and driving automation test strategy - Experience with load and performance testing strategies .