Quality Engineering Manager

Quality Engineering Team Lead7-Eleven is an iconic family of brands with over 86,000 locations, surpassing every retailer in the world. We revolutionize convenience, restaurants and fuel through cutting edge innovation — working hard to be the customer's first choice. 7-Eleven empowers our employees to "activate awesome" and make a meaningful impact in their stores and communities every day. If you're ready to grow, lead and make a difference, come join our team and help shape the future of convenience.Responsibilities:Leading quality engineering team and quality process in a hybrid environment with Agile teams at varying levels of maturity.Working with Agile product squads and wider programs in ensuring appropriate test engineering approach, frameworks and practices are in place to ensure customer facing qualityRefining testing approach and delivery processes to ensure appropriate test coverage as well as maintain a continuous improvement outlook incorporating production feedback/RCA from defects found late in release cyclesBuilding and managing QA team, including hiring, coaching, and mentoring team members.Collaborating on feature sprint planning and providing metrics on testing progress.Engaging with stakeholders to understand requirements, design approaches and develop estimates, staffing plans and day to day management of testing activitiesResponsible for test planning, test design, test execution, Requirement Traceability Analysis, and Test Coverage Analysis across the various product squads or delivery teamsManaging and coordinating parallel scrums contributing to high-frequency product releases. This includes establishing criteria for release, auditing test plans, defining test KPIs, and automation capabilities, identifying issues associated with product deficiencies and leading test team.Preparing recommendations for testing and documentation procedures to be used in the product design phase to production roll-out.Working with development team in implementing & maintaining Continuous Integration and Continuous deployment.Driving an engineering approach to customer facing quality with shared accountability across unit testing, system testing, contract testing, integration testing, end to end testing, business user acceptance, production validation & post go-live feedback as appropriate.Responsible for developing and executing test environments strategy and architecture plan. Developing strong competencies and toolsets for environment provisioning and setup automated data refresh within a framework of highly automated test and continuous deployment.Conducting working sessions and collaborating with end-to-end partner systems to ascertain technical requirements from test perspective for both manual and automation testing across ecosystemEstablishing and tracking KPI's and metrics for measuring effectiveness and efficiency of our environment and test data management processes. Maximizing requirements coverage, automation and engineer approaches to minimize manual environment provisioning and dependencies such as reliable test data.Building, leading & mentoring team of SDeTs along with technical leadership/mentoring to deliver high quality products.Qualifications:Education & Experience:Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science or related field andWork Experience:10+ years of experience in Software Engineering discipline with hands on development experience required.Specific Skills or Other Requirements:10+ years of experience in software engineering process, best practices, automation tools and techniques with 4+ years of experience leading Test engineering function10+ years of experience with requirements Analysis and Functional Test Planning as part of designing and implementing a Testing Strategy.8+ years of functional and automation testing experienceHands on experience with fully automated, modern software engineering practices to enable CI/CD to continuously deliver public facing functionality is a plus8 years of experience in End-to-end software delivery management in direct-to-consumer ecommerce on online channels5 years of experience on standardizing test planning, executing, and reporting processes across multiple omni channel teams in a geographically distributed environment is necessary7 years of experience of agile software development processes, continuous integration and continuous deployment using tools like Jenkins, Stash/Git, in-pipeline automated quality gates and validation.4 years of experience in key areas such as Cloud Native Architectures, NoSQL data stores, Spring Framework, Java/J2EE, Microservices, JavaScript6 years of experience with ensuring successful software delivery by ensuring enablers such as environment provisioning, data refresh, setup tools and processesStrong working knowledge in Marketing systems, Communication Management, Email and Campaign Management, Customer Care, Master Data Management, Enterprise Data Platforms, Business Intelligence, Integration (ETL/ESB), and modern data analytics is a plusExperience in Enterprise apps such as Oracle Retail, Oracle e-Business Suite and Human Resources, Supply Chain, WMS and Point-of-Sale would be a plus