Head of Quality Assurance

The Role

Our client is seeking a dynamic Head of QA to lead and execute Our clients’ QA strategy. With 100% of team growth already this year, the engineering organization is evolving and scaling to keep pace with the explosive product opportunity. Your leadership will help in rapidly scaling and maturing our remote-first workforce.

Responsibilities

Defining, influencing, and delivering all aspects of the software quality strategy.
Hiring, growing, and retaining top talent. In particular, mentoring and coaching a geographically distributed group of test engineers, while taking ownership of interviewing and hiring to grow the QA team.
Partnering with senior leaders and other stakeholders to build test strategies and plans that result in world-class software quality
Building test infrastructure and automation to improve software quality.
Managing the activities and performance of test engineers within an agile, matrix environment. (Being both highly technical and an effective people manager)
Identifying strategic and productivity initiatives to improve software quality & development velocity.
Making and meeting commitments to quality and on-pace delivery of new product features.
Providing clear communication to your team, and the business about the progress and vision.

Qualifications:

At least 8 years experience in QA/test engineering, with at least 3 of them managing a team in a high paced startup environment.
Experience in automated testing and QA in an agile continuous integration and deployment environment
Experience in functional/non-functional testing, test infrastructure, and test frameworks
Strong problem-solving skills and background in coding
Excellent written and spoken communication skills.

More about you:

You get the very best out of your team.
You’ve got experience setting goals and measuring your team’s progress towards them (and beyond).
You lead by example, often going the extra mile yourself.
You keep the tempo as high as the level of fun.
You have the ability to positively influence other parts of the business.
You don’t avoid those difficult conversations.

This is a remote job, but you must be able to cover 5+ hours of GMT time zone work hours per day from wherever you are.

The Offer