Engineering Manager II, QA/Release

In this role, you will:

• Lead a hybrid team of engineers and external contractors (both full time and network agency) to create and maintain the process that best serves the quality across all Tinder engineering and product
• Identify potential team leaders - both from a technical and people leadership perspective.
• Collaborate with engineering, product, analytics, design, and business development to deliver product features on time and quality.
• Understand the gaps in the QA and release process and establish a long-term team roadmap (particularly an engineering roadmap) for addressing the identified gaps.
• Co-own the top-of-funnel metrics with the marketing and business development teams and identify the opportunity for in-app events, custom product pages, and product page optimization.
• Establish engineering org-wide release and test quality transparency via a comprehensive reporting solution.
• Work closely with the platform team (dev experience) to improve the quality of mobile regression testing.
• Manage the app store meta-data and oversee the app submission process (including localization, branch cut, pre-submission testing, app regression testing, etc.)
• Address any mobile app release rejections while coordinating with key partners promptly.
• Drive the critical conversations between Apple, Google, Tinder business development, and Match group program management to smoothen the release process.
• Drive strategic plans and tactical execution that align with business goals.
• Implement and scale out standard processes on the teams while keeping a higher level of consistency by identifying/gathering any issues/bugs pre-release/QA.
• Lead and mentor team members to reach their full potential.

You’ll need:

• 3+ years of technical leadership experience
• 5+ years of QA automation, release management or engineering experience
• Strong ownership and accountability to lead all aspects of the release process and quality
• Maintain and improve team project management rituals, either Scrum or Kanban.
• Hands-on experience in delivering and maintaining the quality of large-scale, end-to-end (consumer-facing) apps/systems.
• Passion for taking initiative and driving high-leverage solutions in a rapidly changing environment
• Wisdom on technical trade-offs, strong sense of ownership, and execution
• Strong written and verbal communication and presentation skills with the ability to advocate and present to non-technical audiences, including leadership, in an easily digestible manner.
• Desire and ability to grow, encourage, and empower the team to go above and beyond.
• Experience working autonomously with multiple teams across backend, iOS, Android, Web platforms, data, product, analytics, design, business development, and external vendors.

Nice to have:

• Experience in mobile app release management.
• Experience in AWS stack – especially with mobile emphasis.
• Experience in various testing SaaS solutions such as Qase, Testrails, and Applitools.
• Have experience with setting up and leading one of the listed CI systems such as Jenkins, BuildKite, CIrcleCi, Bitrise.
• Experience in accessibility and localization testing.
• Have enterprise experience working with native test automation solutions such as XCUITest, Espresso, and Cypress.