Software QA Manager

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Position Overview

Software Quality Engineering Manager at Autodesk:

Autodesk enables our customers to imagine, design, and create a better world. The construction industry is experiencing unprecedented technology disruption. Autodesk Construction Solutions delivers a comprehensive, integrated solution that connects the office, trailer, and field to improve how construction projects are planned, executed, and delivered. Our best-of-breed solutions through the entire building lifecycle position us as market leaders in changing the way our customers work. We enable the future of construction as the definitive source of information to help customers win more work, connect with the right people or job, and reduce risk. Our beautiful, user-friendly software is solving real problems for real people. At Autodesk, we strive to connect every business in the $10 trillion construction industry and improve the lives and jobs of millions of hardworking construction professionals.

SDET team is an integral part of the overall feature development process. We collaborate with our engineers, product managers and designers to help ship features faster with utmost quality to our customers. As we speed up our product development, we are looking to hire a talented Software Quality Engineering Manager to lead the SDET team who can help advocate for our customer's experience, increase the velocity of our product and engineering teams and instill best practices in functional and automation testing.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of SDETs and guide the team to automate manual processes and speed up test automation
• Drive the efforts to build automation frameworks that would support execution of large amount of automation tests in a CI environment with utmost stability and minimum execution time
• Support test automation development in a fast agile environment and enable building automation for new features as they are developed
• Build strategies to drastically reduce the amount of manual effort needed for any feature release by building a robust automation infrastructure
• Collaborate with multiple feature teams comprising of engineers, product managers and designers to drive quality process
• Setup automation best practices for test development, code optimization and code reviews to build highly efficient non-flaky tests
• Expand test coverage across all developed features and develop strategies to be able to detect bugs in the earlier phase of development by leveraging test automation
• Design test automation strategies to be able to build automation on all fronts such as web, mobile, api, visual, accessibility etc
• Setup processes to be able to perform load/performance testing of the application to support major feature releases
• Perform code reviews and provide constructive feedbacks to improve the automation code quality or help unblock from any challenging scenarios
• Create dashboards and metrics to be able to quantify the quality works for important test artifacts like user stories, testcase, bugs and most importantly automation
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to the SDET team as well as the engineering team to be able to implement quality best practices across the organization

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or similar technical field
• Experience leading teams of SDETs in building automation framework and tools for web and mobile based applications
• Current hands on expertise in at least one of the programming languages - Java, JavaScript, Python etc
• Hands on expertise in writing automation code using any of the automation frameworks such as - cypress.io, Playwright, Selenium, appium ( We use cypress.io for web and appium for mobile)
• Working experience in git based repositories like GitHub or GitLab
• Experience in integrating automation test framework with CI/CD infrastructure such as CircleCI or Jenkins to be able to run the automation jobs in CI environment
• Experience managing geographically located dispersed teams
• Experience in team management - Hiring, Mentoring, Performance reviews, providing career path and retaining best talents

About Autodesk

Welcome to Autodesk! Amazing things are created every day with our software – from the greenest buildings and cleanest cars to the smartest factories and biggest hit movies. We help innovators turn their ideas into reality, transforming not only how things are made, but what can be made.

 

We take great pride in our culture here at Autodesk – our Culture Code is at the core of everything we do. Our values and ways of working help our people thrive and realize their potential, which leads to even better outcomes for our customers.

 

When you’re an Autodesker, you can be your whole, authentic self and do meaningful work that helps build a better future for all. Ready to shape the world and your future? Join us!

Benefits

From health and financial benefits to time away and everyday wellness, we give Autodeskers the best, so they can do their best work. Learn more about our benefits in the U.S. by visiting https://benefits.autodesk.com/

Salary is one part of Autodesk’s competitive compensation package. For U.S.-based roles, we expect a starting base salary between $131,300 and $212,300. Offers are based on the candidate’s experience and geographic location, and may exceed this range. In addition to base salaries, we also have a significant emphasis on annual cash bonuses, commissions for sales roles, stock grants, and a comprehensive benefits package.

Equal Employment Opportunity

At Autodesk, we're building a diverse workplace and an inclusive culture to give more people the chance to imagine, design, and make a better world. Autodesk is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and considers all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other legally protected characteristic. We also consider for employment all qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with applicable law.

Diversity & Belonging

We take pride in cultivating a culture of belonging and an equitable workplace where everyone can thrive. Learn more here: https://www.autodesk.com/company/diversity-and-belonging

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