Manager, Software QA
Calgary, Alberta
TEST ENGINEERING – Software QA /
Full-time /
Hybrid
About You
You want to work for a fast-paced company that thinks big and dreams huge. You are driven, view work as more than just a job, and are never satisfied with a project left half-done. You have a strong sense of personal ownership and responsibility for completion of objectives on time. You want to figure out why things tick which makes you tick but very little ticks you off. You want to think outside of the box and continually challenge your own limits, as well as those around you. You have a mad scientist mentality where you want to be part of the robots building robots revolution.
About Attabotics
Attabotics is the world’s first 3D robotics supply chain system for modern commerce. Inspired by the framework of ant colonies, Attabotics replaces the rows and aisles of traditional fulfillment centers with a patented storage structure and robotics shuttles that utilize both horizontal and vertical space, reducing a company’s warehouse needs by 85%. By empowering retailers to place fulfillment centers near high-density urban areas, Attabotics helps create jobs and decrease carbon emissions by closing the last-mile delivery gap. Attabotics is a TIME Magazine Most Innovative Company special mention, CNBC Disruptor, and one of Fast Company’s world’s 50 most innovative companies. Attabotics is based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, with fulfillment centers across the United States and Canada.
The Role
The Manager, Software QA leads and guides all aspects of testing for our control system and cloud products. This role requires project planning, monitoring, coaching, strategy, and professional craftsmanship (we believe that testing is both a science and an art). You’ll have the opportunity to evolve a team of people, with a variety of backgrounds and skills, as they find bugs and help us AttaPeeps (aka our humans) better understand the state of the product.
Who you are
- Degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering
- Minimum 5 years of software testing experience
- Demonstrated results with at least 3 years leading a team of technical developers and analysts
- Strong working knowledge of industry standards and best practices for software testing and test automation
- Solid experience with at least one test automation framework (SpecFlow & C# preferred)
- Experience with containerization (i.e., Docker) is an asset
- Familiarity with CI/CD systems, bug tracking and test management tools (experience with Azure Devops preferred)
- Excellent communication, interpersonal, and problem-solving skills
- Superior ability to influence and collaborate with senior management and work across all levels of the organization
- Able to help others understand and prioritize their work acting as a team enabler, maintaining a high level of drive and enthusiasm for achieving our goals
- Experience with Agile project management and development processes
What we need
- Lead a team of remote and local QA professionals, with skills in manual testing and software test automation
- Provide technical guidance and direction while overseeing the delivery of commitments across all team members
- Implement strategies to improve efficiency, accelerate time to release, improve software quality, and reduce defect occurrences
- Establish consistent methods for assessing and communicating product quality
- Enable stakeholders to make data-driven decisions for successful product releases
- Own the defect triage process for in-sprint and production issues
- Support the broader team on defect root cause analysis and containment
- Be a champion of quality, simultaneously showing strong business and technical judgement
- Collaborate with agile development teams to enable the testing of new features, and to ensure proper test coverage and approach
- Collaborate effectively with the downstream teams to handover release candidates
- Grow (attract key talent) and mentor the team to effectively meet the needs and challenges of the Software QA organization
If this description describes you perfectly and the work environment you know you can thrive in, send us your resume as well as describe to us what you’re passionate about and we may just reach out to you.
Attabotics is committed to employing the best people to do the best job possible within our environment. We hire based on merit and are strongly committed to cultivating diversity as a source of excellence. Attabotics firmly believes that a vast array of perspectives produces and promotes innovation and business success. Our corporate diversity encompasses differences in ethnicity, gender identity or expression, language, age, sexual orientation, religion, socio-economic status, physical and mental ability and education.
Attabotics promotes a corporate safety culture where employees’ health, safety & well being is number one and with the ultimate goal of establishing a zero incident work environment.
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