Manager/Senior Manager/Director Quality Assurance – Cloud Engineering (R&D)

Company Description

IFS is a billion-dollar revenue company with 6000+ employees on all continents. Our leading AI technology is the backbone of our award-winning enterprise software solutions, enabling our customers to be their best when it really matters–at the Moment of Service™. Our commitment to internal AI adoption has allowed us to stay at the forefront of technological advancements, ensuring our colleagues can unlock their creativity and productivity, and our solutions are always cutting-edge.

At IFS, we’re flexible, we’re innovative, and we’re focused not only on how we can engage with our customers but on how we can make a real change and have a worldwide impact. We help solve some of society’s greatest challenges, fostering a better future through our agility, collaboration, and trust.

We celebrate diversity and understand our responsibility to reflect the diverse world we work in. We are committed to promoting an inclusive workforce that fully represents the many different cultures, backgrounds, and viewpoints of our customers, our partners, and our communities. As a truly international company serving people from around the globe, we realize that our success is tantamount to the respect we have for those different points of view.

By joining our team, you will have the opportunity to be part of a global, diverse environment; you will be joining a winning team with a commitment to sustainability; and a company where we get things done so that you can make a positive impact on the world.

We’re looking for innovative and original thinkers to work in an environment where you can #MakeYourMoment so that we can help others make theirs. With the power of our AI-driven solutions, we empower our team to change the status quo and make a real difference.

If you want to change the status quo, we’ll help you make your moment. Join Team Purple. Join IFS.

Job Description

The Director of Quality Assurance (DQA) within Cloud Engineering will have deep knowledge on industry standard quality assurance processes and methodologies and work with all aspects of quality assurance throughout the entire software development process. They are responsible for ensuring that quality is considered early in the design process so that the product will be testable later.

Within Cloud Engineering the DQA is primarily responsible for leading a team of QA Engineers testing and validating automated deployment pipelines. The DQA plays a key role within the team, working alongside Program Management and Software Engineering Leaders to ensure that all aspects of testing, support, and test coverage are included in the testing plans as well as design and implementation is completed as per the IFS Development Process. 

The DQA in Cloud Engineering will have experience of working with Cloud deployed software and automated deployment pipelines, experience with Azure in particular is a distinct advantage as well as overseeing automated testing and execution.
The DQA should also foster good proactive relationships with stakeholders across IFS, including but not limited to colleagues in support. Quality Assurance Leaders will look to minimize the amount of R&D time their teams spend supporting the product and minimize escalations by delivering high quality, well documented software with a “right first time” approach and attitude. There should be regular engagement with the Software Engineering Leaders to feedback areas of concern and take affirmative action to address problems as they arise.

Qualifications

• University degree, or equivalent professional qualifications, in software engineering.
• Professional quality assurance and testing experience
• Experience with testing automated deployment pipelines in a Dev Ops environment
• Experience in Performance testing, Security testing and Usability testing
• Experience working with a hyperscale cloud and in particular, Microsoft Azure
• Leading a team of QA Engineers

Experience in the following areas will be an added advantage

• Agile methodologies for software testing.
• Test Automation tools and methodologies
• Test Data Management

Additional Information

• We believe that coming together as a community, in person, is important for innovation, connection and fostering a sense of belonging. Our roles have the right balance of remote and in-office working to enable flexibility for managing your life along with ensuring a real connection with your colleagues and the broader IFS community.