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About the Role
As a Lead Software Engineer in Test within our expanding Quality Engineering (QE) team, you'll spearhead our commitment to product quality and a shift-left testing approach. Your role involves guiding a team of software engineers, acting as a mentor and subject matter expert. You'll ensure software application quality and reliability by devising testing strategies, implementing automated frameworks, and providing strong leadership.
In this role, you will:
Interact with various stakeholders, such as engineering and support teams, to come up with clear requirements for QE deliverables
Design and concisely describe the solutions to improve testability of products
Guide the team through technical hurdles to unblock the team’s operations
Understand each product under test, including its use cases, execution/data flow and configuration to provide efficient quality improvement strategies
Facilitate team discussions and strategise deliverable planning.
Look for opportunities for moving manual testing to automated.
Work with other teams within Rapid7 to ensure the quality of the product is maintained.
In addition, carry out normal QE tasks such as:
Maintain, execute and create automated tests.
Manage test environments.
Create and maintain test plans.
The skills you’ll bring include, but not limited to:
A minimum of 7+ years experience in Software development role with 3+ years of experience in Testing and QE. Experience and interest in people leadership is highly desirable.
Experience in leading team(s) through multiple complex projects.
People leadership experience in coaching, mentoring and managing performance.
Collaborate with engineering teams to come up with clear requirements and prove the solution through POCs if needed.
Knowledge in wide technology stacks and languages for Cloud and On-Premises products.
Experience in developing and testing systems that scale for performance and load.
Self-directed, motivated, collaborative, high-energy, with a diligent work ethic.
Experience with automation frameworks. Ex: RobotFramework, Cucumber, NUnit, Playwright or Selenium.
Experience in DevOps engineering.
Working knowledge of JIRA or equivalent defect tracking tools.
Knowledge of cloud platforms . Ex: Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, Azure, OpenStack or VMware.
Knowledge of RDBMS and SQL language.
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