Lead and oversee all aspects of quality assurance, concentrating on performance metric establishment, industry best practices, and continuous tool and process development to achieve quality goals. Analyze QA performance metrics to derive meaningful insights, facilitating data-driven decision-making. Collaborate closely with upper management to establish and maintain quality benchmarks, fostering a culture of excellence. Ensure effective communication with stakeholders, providing regular updates ... more details
GOBankingRates™ is unique in the digital marketing and media industry - we combine marketing, digital, content and fintech. Our performance based approach increases brand awareness and generates targeted audience engagement on our internal web properties and partner sites.
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What’s interesting about this role?
As a pivotal member of our dynamic team, the Senior QA Manager role presents a unique opportunity for an experienced leader with a robust foundation in software engineering QA methodologies.
This position goes beyond traditional QA management, offering the chance to certify top-of-the-line front-end and back-end user experiences for our highly customized site, which serves over 10 million monthly users.
Communication is key, as the Senior QA Manager will set clear expectations, provide coaching, and contribute significantly to our team's growth and success in a collaborative and innovative environment.
How will you make an impact?
- Lead and oversee all aspects of quality assurance, concentrating on performance metric establishment, industry best practices, and continuous tool and process development to achieve quality goals.
- Analyze QA performance metrics to derive meaningful insights, facilitating data-driven decision-making.
- Collaborate closely with upper management to establish and maintain quality benchmarks, fostering a culture of excellence. Ensure effective communication with stakeholders, providing regular updates on QA progress and addressing any concerns.
- Play a vital role in Agile ceremonies, actively analyzing requirements, crafting testing strategies, and finding innovative ways to track progress and analyze data for continuous improvement.
- Optimize QA processes within the team by strategically selecting and implementing automation tools and frameworks, establishing efficient CI/CD pipelines, and conducting reviews to enhance productivity.
- Identify and mitigate potential risks in the QA process, implementing proactive measures to prevent issues.
- Act as the primary contact for all QA aspects of releases, providing QA services, UAT guidance, and coordinating QA resources for both internal projects and cross-squad efforts to align QA strategies with broader organizational goals.
- Lead training, motivation, coaching, and guidance efforts to maintain and exceed standards.
- Drive the recruitment strategy within the team, working closely with HR and the technical recruiting team to promptly fill open positions, place high performing team members, strategically optimize team structure, and retain top talent.
What do you bring to us?
- 8-10 years of experience building and managing teams, reviewing user stories, acceptance criteria, specifications, and other available information in order to develop test plans and test scenarios
- Demonstrated experience in agile software development testing, encompassing both manual and automated testing.
- Showcase 2-3 years of automation experience with languages like JavaScript, PHP, or other object-oriented programming languages, using tools such as Selenium Webdriver.
- 2+ years of experience using tools like Autify, which leverage machine learning and artificial intelligence to identify visual changes on web pages.
- Proficiency in automated testing of web applications, encompassing comprehensive cross-browser and cross-device testing using automated tools.
- Experience with automation integrated into CI/CD using tools like Jenkins, CircleCI, or Harness.
- Proficient in API testing, both manual (using tools like Postman/swagger) and automated.
- Strong proficiency in SQL and any industry-leading cloud platforms such as AWS
- Ability to efficiently coordinate with developers and product owners for feedback, quality risk mitigation, and maintenance of the architecture for the automation suite.
- Excellent communication skills (both verbal and written) with the ability to interact effectively with multiple stakeholders, onsite/offshore teams, and senior leadership.
- Ability to thrive in a challenging and rapidly changing environment, taking direction and feedback on ideas with a collaborative and proactive attitude.
- Big Pluses:
- Experience with Digital Media, Financial & Ad Domains.
- Database/Data Warehouse testing
- Experience with performance and/or security testing
The salary range for this role is $160,000 - $180,000. Pay offered may vary within the posted range based on a number of factors including but not limited to job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and location.
Benefits
- Competitive salary with excellent growth opportunity; we pride ourselves in having a team that exudes leadership, high initiative, creativity and passion.
- Awesome medical, dental and vision plans with heavy employer contribution
- Paid maternity leave and paternity leave programs
- Paid vacation, sick days and holidays
- Company funding for outside classes and conferences to help you improve your skills
- Contribution to student loan debt payments after the first year of employment
- 401(k) -- employees can start contributing immediately. After the first year, GOBankingRates matches your contribution up to 4% of your salary
A note about our new norm: The world has changed and we know it’s important to adapt and to do our part to do what's best for our team. Our number one priority is to have our team feel safe, balanced and connected. We’re committed to providing our teams with the best resources and tools to navigate this new virtual world that we’re living in. We've also reinvented the ways in which we recognize, celebrate, and engage with each other to keep our culture strong!
Here’s a peek into our world at GOBankingRates -
- Our teams are working remotely 100% for the foreseeable future. We’re in the digital media space, so we’re mobile and flexible!
- *Option to work from an office (if you need to get away!)
- Tools & resources are available to keep our team connected across North America. (JIRA, Trello, Slack, Zoom and so much more!)
- To keep our community engaged and connected, virtual team building events are held weekly and monthly.
- For wellness and balance, weekly virtual fitness classes such as yoga are available.
- To care for the local communities that we’re a part of across the U.S our team members host socially distanced philanthropic events every quarter.
- And most importantly, we’ve committed to consistent and transparent communication to help us all stay informed, engaged and to keep us on our path to success and #greatness.
We are an equal-opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
