QE Engineering Manager

QE Engineering Manager

Job Description:

Your team consists of experienced and highly skilled QA engineers, who are responsible for assuring the quality of our Linux product family. Their duties are:

• Developing and enhancing the automation tools for various Linux products, that also run in the public cloud, with openQA as our main tool.
• Designing, developing and maintaining automation test cases for our Linux products.
• Collecting and investigating automation tools requirements from QA and development teams.
• Coordinating test planning and execution in a truly global distributed project team.
• Supporting all colleagues in achieving their goals by doing pair-programming, coaching or conducting workshops.

What you are responsible for:

• Provide line-management and leadership to a highly self-organized team.
• Advocate Agile methodologies within the team and the department.
• Support the team in efficient and timely delivery of assigned tasks.
• Mentor and coach team members in developing additional necessary knowledge and skills.
• Work very closely with development and release management to define suitable test approaches.
• Act as a change sponsor, engaging and motivating the team for constant and ongoing change and improvement.
• Reach beyond your core job responsibilities, help others to succeed and to be successful.
• Create a positive and self-reliant work environment.

Required skills and experience:

• Thorough understanding of software quality assurance and quality control techniques, software development life cycle, test automation frameworks and various test methodologies.
• Excellent written, verbal communication and interpersonal skills, with experience of working in a virtual and distributed environment.
• Being able to navigate at ease through a culturally diverse matrix organization.
• Ability to negotiate with the team and others to reconcile differences, ability to seek agreement and consensus across boundaries (team, department and cultures) over professional matters.
• Ability to understand social perceptions. Being aware of others’ reactions and understand why they react as they do.
• Understanding and promoting the open source development model.
• Strong analytical skills and result orientation for effective problem solving.
• Good understanding and hands-on experience with programming languages. Perl and C programming experience would be a plus.
• Excellent Linux knowledge.

Job:

Engineering

SUSE, the world’s largest independent open source software company, powers digital transformation with true open source technologies for the enterprise that simplify, modernize and accelerate traditional, cloud and edge solutions. SUSE collaborates with partners, communities and customers to deliver and support solutions that enable mission-critical business outcomes. SUSE’s container and cloud platforms, software-defined infrastructure, and artificial intelligence and edge computing solutions allow customers to create, deploy and manage workloads anywhere – on premises, hybrid and multi-cloud. For more information, visit www.suse.com.