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:

1. Lead the end-to-end Quality process, including planning, scheduling, coordinating, and executing software releases.
2. Collaborate with development, QA, Product, and operations teams to ensure successful release deployments.
3. Develop and maintain Quality tools and automation scripts.
4. Drive end-to-end automation.
5. Implement and enforce release management best practices, including version control, branching, and merging strategies.
6. Troubleshoot and resolve release-related issues, working closely with development and operations teams.
7. Devise a high-level end-to-end feature and product level quality strategy and collaborate with engineering leads to execute it.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. Run postmortems for escapes, identify process deficiencies, and propose changes to help team improve.
11. Tactically run end-to-end testing for all releases.
12. Act as the voice of the customer, raising warnings when there are problems and helping prioritize engineering focus.

Minimum Requirements

1. Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
2. Proven experience as a Quality and Release leader.
3. 10 years of team leadership.
4. Strong knowledge of Quality management principles, methodologies, and best practices.
5. Experience with build automation and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.
6. Solid understanding of software development lifecycle (SDLC) and agile methodologies.
7. Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills, with the ability to analyze complex release-related issues.
8. Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams.
9. Detail-oriented and highly organized, with the ability to manage multiple releases and priorities simultaneously.