Manager, QA

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Corporate Overview

Proofpoint is a leading cybersecurity company protecting organizations’ greatest assets and biggest risks: vulnerabilities in people. With an integrated suite of cloud-based solutions, Proofpoint helps companies around the world stop targeted threats, safeguard their data, and make their users more resilient against cyber attacks. Leading organizations of all sizes, including more than half of the Fortune 1000, rely on Proofpoint for people-centric security and compliance solutions mitigating their most critical risks across email, the cloud, social media, and the web.

We are singularly devoted to helping our customers protect their greatest assets and biggest security risk: their people. That’s why we’re a leader in next-generation cybersecurity.

The Role

We are looking for a QA Manager to recruit, develop and inspire a dedicated team of QA Engineers, supporting one of our core enterprise solutions.

You will play a pivotal role by identifying design issues, promoting and improving testability, creating and automating test cases, and identifying and reporting defects. This is a highly technical role that requires solid OO development skills.

Your day-to-day

• Manage a team of QA Engineers working on both manual and automated testing   
• As a manager, monitoring team performance, recruit and mentor QA team members, and liaise between cross-functional teams 
• Support multiple teams with estimation, planning, and strategy for testing 
• Own responsibility for test (case) coverage and test and defect reporting and metrics 
• Advocate for QA best practices across the development and engineering teams 
• Mentor junior QA team members of the team in testing and engineering best practices 
• Organize and lead special initiatives as a member of the engineering leadership team, to improve process, investigate and qualify tools, develop test frameworks or techniques to benefit future projects 
• Perform (project-level) test lead duties when needed, to include: stakeholder discussions, test strategy formation, team member mentoring, and deliverable status tracking and reporting 

What you bring to the team

• Previous people management experience
• Experience working across functional lines (i.e developers, product managers , other QA members, Devops etc.). Highly collaborative to test requirements. 
• Motivated, organised, and able to support multiple agile teams with various needs 
• Proficiency with an object-oriented programming language, preferably C# or Java 
• Experience working with Agile (Scrum) teams 
• Experience with source control management with Git, Mercurial, SVN or equivalent 
• Experience with container-based deployments (eg. Docker , Kubernetes) and AWS
• Strong communication and influencing skills, and professional business demeanor 

Why Proofpoint

Protecting people is at the heart of our award-winning cybersecurity solutions, and the people who work here are the key to our success.  We’re a customer-focused and driven-to-win organisation with leading-edge products. We are an inclusive, diverse, multinational company that believes in culture fit, but more importantly ‘culture-add’, and we strongly encourage people from all walks of life to apply. 

We believe in hiring the best and the brightest to help cultivate our culture of collaboration and appreciation. Apply today and explore your future at Proofpoint! #LifeAtProofpoint

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