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Strategic Quality Engineering Manager (Remote)
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Jobright.ai Get AI-powered advice on this job and more exclusive features. Jobright is an AI-powered career platform that helps job seekers discover the top opportunities in the US. We are NOT a staffing agency. Jobright does not hire directly for these positions. We connect you with verified openings from employers you can trust. Job Summary: Virtru is a leading data protection provider dedicated to changing the rules for data privacy. As a Strategic Quality Engineering Manager, you will lead a proactive quality strategy, managing both manual QA and automation teams to build quality from the start and ensure seamless collaboration across functions. Responsibilities: • Manages and mentors the leaders of the QA and SDET teams, developing their leadership skills and holding them accountable for their team's performance. • Owns the hiring, performance management, and career development for the entire Quality Engineering organization. • Champions a unified 'One Quality' culture, breaking down silos and ensuring seamless collaboration between the manual and automation functions. • Represents the Quality Engineering organization at the senior leadership level, advocating for resources and ensuring quality has a strong voice. • Builds and maintains a high-performing, engaged organization recognized for its expertise and impact on the business. • Proven track record of scaling and managing a multi-faceted quality organization (QA, SDET, etc.) to 10-20+ members. • Defines and owns the company's overall quality vision, strategy, and multi-year roadmap. • Develops the plan to intelligently evolve the balance of manual and automated testing, increasing efficiency and test coverage over time. • Establishes and reports on the key metrics (KPIs) for product quality, such as bug escape rates, test pass rates, and release confidence scores. • Owns the budget for the Quality Engineering organization, including headcount, tools, and training. • Champions a 'shift-left' mentality, integrating quality practices and automated testing earlier into the software development lifecycle. • Partners with Engineering and Product leadership to define and embed quality standards and processes throughout the entire development lifecycle. • Owns the master test strategy for major product releases, ensuring a comprehensive and risk-based approach to validation. • Standardizes quality processes across the organization, including test plan creation, bug triage protocols, and release readiness criteria. • Drives the selection and implementation of the tooling and infrastructure required for a world-class testing organization. • Balances the need for high quality and reliability with the business's need for speed and iterative delivery. • Partners with the SDET Manager to guide the architectural design and evolution of the test automation framework, ensuring it aligns with long-term engineering strategy. • Serves as an expert reviewer for the most critical test strategies and automation code reviews, mentoring the team on best practices in real-world scenarios. • Leads cross-functional post-mortems for critical quality failures, partnering with engineering leaders to identify root causes and drive systemic improvements. • Contributes to proof-of-concept projects alongside the team to evaluate new testing tools and technologies, providing strategic input on their viability. • Rolls up their sleeves to contribute code to high-leverage projects, such as foundational framework improvements or strategic internal tooling that benefits the entire department. Qualifications: Required: • 8+ years testing applications deployed in production. • Hands-on experience with functional testing, performance testing, accessibility testing and security testing, including test case development and execution. • Design, implement and maintain test automation frameworks. • Familiarity with Go, Java, C++, C# on GCP and Microsoft platforms. • Experience with Unit Tests, API Tests, Web UI Tests using Playwright. • Hands-on experience with REST API, and command-line interface (CLI) testing. • Understanding of IaC concepts and familiarity with Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes (k8s), docker, and cloud environments. Preferred: • Thinking outside of the box to respectfully challenge your teammates and managers in the pursuit of excellence. • Strong sense of urgency with an action-oriented mindset. • Able to collaborate and adapt to shifting priorities as business needs evolve. • Comfortable with asynchronous communication including slack, email, zoom, etc. Company: Virtru provides data encryption for email and file sharing, enabling users to easily control access to their sensitive data. Founded in 2012, headquartered in Washington, District of Columbia, USA, team size 201-500 employees, currently Late Stage. Seniority level
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Jobright.ai Get AI-powered advice on this job and more exclusive features. Jobright is an AI-powered career platform that helps job seekers discover the top opportunities in the US. We are NOT a staffing agency. Jobright does not hire directly for these positions. We connect you with verified openings from employers you can trust. Job Summary: Virtru is a leading data protection provider dedicated to changing the rules for data privacy. As a Strategic Quality Engineering Manager, you will lead a proactive quality strategy, managing both manual QA and automation teams to build quality from the start and ensure seamless collaboration across functions. Responsibilities: • Manages and mentors the leaders of the QA and SDET teams, developing their leadership skills and holding them accountable for their team's performance. • Owns the hiring, performance management, and career development for the entire Quality Engineering organization. • Champions a unified 'One Quality' culture, breaking down silos and ensuring seamless collaboration between the manual and automation functions. • Represents the Quality Engineering organization at the senior leadership level, advocating for resources and ensuring quality has a strong voice. • Builds and maintains a high-performing, engaged organization recognized for its expertise and impact on the business. • Proven track record of scaling and managing a multi-faceted quality organization (QA, SDET, etc.) to 10-20+ members. • Defines and owns the company's overall quality vision, strategy, and multi-year roadmap. • Develops the plan to intelligently evolve the balance of manual and automated testing, increasing efficiency and test coverage over time. • Establishes and reports on the key metrics (KPIs) for product quality, such as bug escape rates, test pass rates, and release confidence scores. • Owns the budget for the Quality Engineering organization, including headcount, tools, and training. • Champions a 'shift-left' mentality, integrating quality practices and automated testing earlier into the software development lifecycle. • Partners with Engineering and Product leadership to define and embed quality standards and processes throughout the entire development lifecycle. • Owns the master test strategy for major product releases, ensuring a comprehensive and risk-based approach to validation. • Standardizes quality processes across the organization, including test plan creation, bug triage protocols, and release readiness criteria. • Drives the selection and implementation of the tooling and infrastructure required for a world-class testing organization. • Balances the need for high quality and reliability with the business's need for speed and iterative delivery. • Partners with the SDET Manager to guide the architectural design and evolution of the test automation framework, ensuring it aligns with long-term engineering strategy. • Serves as an expert reviewer for the most critical test strategies and automation code reviews, mentoring the team on best practices in real-world scenarios. • Leads cross-functional post-mortems for critical quality failures, partnering with engineering leaders to identify root causes and drive systemic improvements. • Contributes to proof-of-concept projects alongside the team to evaluate new testing tools and technologies, providing strategic input on their viability. • Rolls up their sleeves to contribute code to high-leverage projects, such as foundational framework improvements or strategic internal tooling that benefits the entire department. Qualifications: Required: • 8+ years testing applications deployed in production. • Hands-on experience with functional testing, performance testing, accessibility testing and security testing, including test case development and execution. • Design, implement and maintain test automation frameworks. • Familiarity with Go, Java, C++, C# on GCP and Microsoft platforms. • Experience with Unit Tests, API Tests, Web UI Tests using Playwright. • Hands-on experience with REST API, and command-line interface (CLI) testing. • Understanding of IaC concepts and familiarity with Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes (k8s), docker, and cloud environments. Preferred: • Thinking outside of the box to respectfully challenge your teammates and managers in the pursuit of excellence. • Strong sense of urgency with an action-oriented mindset. • Able to collaborate and adapt to shifting priorities as business needs evolve. • Comfortable with asynchronous communication including slack, email, zoom, etc. Company: Virtru provides data encryption for email and file sharing, enabling users to easily control access to their sensitive data. Founded in 2012, headquartered in Washington, District of Columbia, USA, team size 201-500 employees, currently Late Stage. Seniority level
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Industries Software Development Referrals increase your chances of interviewing at Jobright.ai by 2x Inferred from the description for this job
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