Quality Engineering Lead - Remote

Overview

CIS is looking for a Quality Engineering Lead to manage a team of Quality Engineers, responsible for designing and implementing tests, debugging and troubleshooting issues, and ensuring internal/external customer requirements are being met. These functions are performed within a fast-paced Agile development cycle. This position requires strong leadership skills to aid the team in moving the needle forward with quality standards, test management, and automation.

 

The Center for Internet Security (CIS) makes the connected world a safer place for people, businesses, and governments through our core competencies of collaboration and innovation. We are a community-driven nonprofit responsible for industry leading best practices for securing IT systems and data. We lead a global community of IT professionals to continuously evolve these standards and provide products and services to proactively safeguard against emerging threats.

 

Salary Range: $94,400 - $142,900  We offer a competitive total rewards package at the Center for Internet Security:

• Base salary is determined on a number of factors including, but not limited to, education, experience and skills
• Health (PPO, EPO, HSA), Dental & Vision Insurance eligibility starting from the first day of hire
• $500 wellness card for Health Coverage Participants
• 401(k) with 4% Company Match, vested from the first day of hire
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA) & Dependent Care Account (DCA)
• Life Insurance
• Bonding Leave
• Paid Volunteering Program
• Bonus eligibility
• Paid Time Off (PTO) inclusive of vacation, personal and sick time
• Paid Holidays
• Wellness Program
• Employee Engagement Activities
• Professional Development Opportunities
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Student Loan PayDown Program
• Employee Referral program
• Employee Assistance Program

What You'll Do

• Leads, mentors, and coaches team members, promoting a mindset of quality, continuous improvement, professional development, and organizational engagement
• Develops, implements, and manages processes to ensure that products meet required specifications for quality, function, and reliability prior to delivery
• Work closely with development teams to design testing strategies and integrate testing into the development process
• Promotes the use of CIS quality tools for automation, performance & load, and test management. Directs the team to utilize these resources and strive for 90% automation
• Prepares metrics to report progress of testing efforts
• Plan, create, execute, and automate test cases, working with business partners, developers, and other stakeholders
• Oversees all types of testing as needed, including functional, regression, system integration, and performance & load
• Isolate, reproduce, manage, and resolve defects. Strives for zero production issues
• Other tasks and responsibilities as assigned

What You'll Need

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or related field*
• 10+ years of relevant quality engineering experience, to include but not limited to information technology, information security, or cybersecurity
• 4+ years of operational experience leading a quality assurance team
• Strong experience with CI/CD automation, including testing, builds, deploys, and monitoring
• Experience designing and developing reusable architecture for the test automation
• Experience with SQL databases and writing SQL queries
• Ability to communicate effectively with a remote team
• Solid foundation in SDLC and working experience in the Agile process framework (e.g., Scrum) and Atlassian stack (JIRA, Confluence)
• Must be team-oriented and able to contribute ideas to improve efficiency and productivity, foster a learning culture, where teamwork and collaboration are encouraged, excellence is rewarded, and diversity is respected and valued
• Demonstrable drive towards continual professional growth and improvement
• Must be authorized to work in the United States

It's a plus if you have:

• Hands-on expertise with Test Management Tool Xray
• Hands-on expertise the Performance and Load Tool Neoload
• Experience testing web-based and command-line applications
• Experience with continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) tools such as AWS CodePipeline
• Experience in AWS cloud environments including web application infrastructures and CI/CD services
• Certification in Quality Standards, such as ISTQB
• Experience working alongside developers to troubleshoot issues for web applications a