Manager, Software Engineering in Test

Coupa makes margins multiply through its community-generated AI and industry-leading total spend management platform for businesses large and small. Coupa AI is informed by trillions of dollars of direct and indirect spend data across a global network of 10M+ buyers and suppliers. We empower you with the ability to predict, prescribe, and automate smarter, more profitable business decisions to improve operating margins.

Why join Coupa?

🔹 Pioneering Technology: At Coupa, we're at the forefront of innovation, leveraging the latest technology to empower our customers with greater efficiency and visibility in their spend.

🔹 Collaborative Culture: We value collaboration and teamwork, and our culture is driven by transparency, openness, and a shared commitment to excellence.

🔹 Global Impact: Join a company where your work has a global, measurable impact on our clients, the business, and each other. 

As part of the Quality Engineering Team, you will join in our "shift-left approach" to focus on doing it right the first time by pushing tests to the lowest unit level and adding additional tests as needed at the integration and user interface level. We have dedicated quality engineers dedicated to each product team to provide guidance and influence release criteria, including adding new automated tests for every code change to enable continuous integration.

What You'll Do:

• Be a hands-on technical manager with good experience in software and systems
• Lead from the front during problem-solving sessions by understanding and empowering the team, articulating clearly the context and business rationale
• Lead and mentor a team of 8-10 engineers and conduct one-on-one growth conversations, provide feedback, build a high-performing team and hire for team expansion
• Communicate effectively at different levels and influence stakeholders on thorough automation coverage at the Unit /API/integration level
• Participate in sprint planning meetings and daily stand-ups and work with teams to mitigate any blockers and adapt to changing needs in a fast-moving environment to meet commitments and ensure quality delivery
• Be innovative, Conduct code reviews to manage automation code quality, and guide teams for improvements and adherence to best practices
• Work closely with product and development teams for scoping/sizing, requirements analysis, and creating test strategy
• Own complete responsibility of sign off & delivery of Travel product releases with utmost quality
• Analyze customer issues, and retrospective feedback, and bring measurable/ actionable tasks into practice

What You Will Bring to Coupa:

• BS/B Tech degree in Computer Science or related field
• 8 - 10+ years of core development or SDET experience with a minimum of 3+ years in team management/leadership handling testing and delivery of enterprise applications
• Experience in the creation of UI/API test frameworks using open source automation tools
• Working experience in Web Services and APIs and automation using Open Source tools
• Experience in CI/CD tools such as TeamCity, Jenkins, CircleCI, Maven, etc.
• Expertise in team management, conflict management, smart goal setting, scoping, and estimations
• Understanding of QA methodologies, life cycle and processes, and project management techniques
• Ability to manage priorities, set appropriate expectations with peer engineering management and deliver features on time with high quality
• Experience establishing and reviewing business metrics, and KPIs with the ability to articulate and provide visibility to the team on various quality metrics ensuring every new feature developed meets the highest quality and is tracked towards those metrics

At Coupa, we celebrate diversity and recognize its value to our customers and employees. Coupa is proud to be an equal-opportunity workplace and affirmative-action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment regardless of age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, genetic information, disability, veteran status, or any other applicable status protected by state or local law. 

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