Functional Testing Engineer

Job Description: 
We are looking for a seasoned software product engineering quality leader to transform and align the quality engineering processes, resources, activities with the Lean/DevTestSecOps methodologies. This role will strategize and enable the shifting of Quality, Security and Performance activities to the design/development phase, with great emphasis on automation, agile principles and data driven metrics. We are eager to discuss with you the potential role, if you are a quality / automation engineering leader, with experience in reducing cycle times and improving product quality by using lean tools/processes/people 

Responsibilities: 

• Lead the overall strategy, execution, reporting of ValGenesis’s platform/integration testing activities 
• Own the strategic vision and establish the Software QA processes, tools, frameworks. Ensure, Monitor and Measure of the same in terms of rollout, adoption, results. 
• Change advocate of lean and efficient working – Processes, Tools, Resources. 
• Work with the engineering and cross-functional leaders along with the developers/testers to achieve continuous and incremental quality improvement across all products. 
• Own and deliver automation, security, performance testing frameworks/tools/strategies. 
• Enable the adoption of such tools/frameworks during development phase. 
• Build tools to monitor and generate metrics of all QA activities - test definition, execution, results, production incidents etc. 
• Build a strategy and deliver capabilities to fully automate computer software validation for all product releases. 
• Build and sustain high performance teams – Hiring, Performance and Talent Management 

Requirements: 

• 2 - 16 years of experience in Enterprise Software Product Engineering (Development/Quality) 
• Working experience with Enterprise SaaS product companies 
• 6+ years of experience in leading/managing multi-discipline activities - manual, automation, performance and security testing. 
• Experience with AI powered test automation frameworks like Playwright, TestRigor etc is preferable. 
• Experience with security and performance testing tools like BurpSuite, Locust, K6 etc 
• Strong experience in generating and presenting data/metric driven reports to exec/C-level stakeholders. 
• Self drive to achieve team and organization goals with high ROI 
• Result oriented collaborator and enabler of success. 

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• Preferred: 

o Enterprise software experience withing the Life Sciences industry and good understanding of GxP requirements 

o Knowledge of cloud native, distributed architecture