Sr. Manager – Infotainment End to End Quality Engineering

Job Description

As a Sr. Manager for End to End Quality Engineering you will work with stakeholders across the Infotainment Organization as well as stakeholders in Product Organization to develop a holistic strategy for end to end feature and product Quality. You will play a critical role in driving Quality at the feature and integration level, ensuring best practices, comprehensive test assets, automation, and delivery of a high Quality Infotainment Product. You will have the opportunity to lead a team of highly skilled Software Quality Engineers and contractors. 

Job responsibilities include

• Lead the end-to-end Quality process, including planning, scheduling, coordinating, and executing software releases 

• Collaborate with development, QA, Product and operations teams to ensure successful release deployments 

• Develop and maintain Quality tools, automation scripts 

• Drive end to end automation 

• Implement and enforce release management best practices, including version control, branching, and merging strategies 

• Troubleshoot and resolve release-related issues, working closely with development and operations teams 

• Devise a high-level end to end feature and product level quality strategy and collaborate with engineering leads to execute it 

• Build an effective QA team, finding the right leaders and growing everyone’s skills. Come up with a staffing plan, utilizing in-house and contract resources 

• Track and help define high level quality metrics. Report on and help define OKRs as part of the larger Quality Engineering Organization. Help drive engineering teams to improve these continuously 

• Run postmortems for escapes, identify process deficiencies, and propose changes to help team improve 

• Tactically run end to end testing for all releases 

• Act as the voice of the customer, raising warnings when there are problems and helping prioritize engineering focus 

Additional Job Description

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field. 

• Proven experience as a Quality and Release leader 

• 10 years of team leadership 

• Strong knowledge of Quality management principles, methodologies, and best practices 

• Experience with build automation and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines 

• Solid understanding of software development lifecycle (SDLC) and agile methodologies 

• Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills, with the ability to analyze complex release-related issues 

• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams 

• Detail-oriented and highly organized, with the ability to manage multiple releases and priorities simultaneously 

Hybrid, reporting to a specific location where work needs to be performed / collaboration should happen (regardless this location is within a hub) and without regard to where