Director, Software Engineering QA

Aera Technology is the Decision Intelligence company. We deliver innovation and services that enable enterprises to operate sustainably, intelligently, and efficiently. Our platform, Aera Decision Cloud™, integrates with your existing systems to digitize, augment, and automate decisions in real time. Aera helps enterprises around the world transform decision making – delivering millions of recommendations that have resulted in significant revenue gains and cost savings for some of the world’s best-known brands.

Privately-held and VC-funded, we have a global team of over 400 Aeranauts – and we’re growing. We deliver Decision Intelligence innovation and services that enable enterprises to automate and scale decision-making with accuracy and speed. We continue to be the trusted choice of market leaders for our proven ability to generate value and unlock opportunities that were previously unattainable. 

As the Director of Software engineering QA, you are someone who is obsessed with quality improvement and has experience providing strategic engineering leadership to your teams

Responsibility

• Ownership of product quality for the entire Aera platform which leverages AI. Oversee day to day activities of the manual and automation testing teams .
• Work with PMs and stakeholders to ensure QA requirements are met for each service/product
• Contribute to the development and improvement of QA processes
• Responsible for QA validation for all products built globally across US, India and Romania.
• Provide technical thought leadership to your teams. Help lead cross functional QA teams. Provide support and coaching for direct reports.
• Ability to plan, prioritize and execute QA activities across multiple teams. Oversee release candidate validation, release deployment and signoff.
• Strong experience with Cloud Technologies such Aws/Azure/GCP is a huge plus
• Demonstrated ability to learn quickly and to work in a fast paced, innovative environment

About You

• Takes pride in delivering high quality products and having satisfied customers
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or a related discipline
• 5+ years experience in a management/leading teams
• 15+ years experience in software Quality Assurance for complex enterprise products 
• Strong knowledge of SDLC and QA processes
• Strong knowledge of Selenium WebDriver, Test NG/JUnit, REST-Assured, JMeter, Maven/Gradle, Jenkins, MySQL, OOP paradigms, Java. At least 4 years hands on experience in test automation using Java and Selenium WebDriver
• Innovative and constantly exploring new technologies and ideas to improve product quality and team productivity

If you share our passion for building a sustainable, intelligent, and efficient world, you’re in the right place. Established in 2017 and headquartered in Mountain View, California, we're a series D start-up, with teams in Mountain View, San Francisco (California), Bucharest and Cluj-Napoca (Romania), Paris (France), Munich (Germany), London (UK), Pune (India), and Sydney (Australia). So join us, and let’s build this!

Aera Technology is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status.

Benefits Summary At Aera Technology, we strive to support our Aeranauts and their loved ones through different stages of life with a variety of attractive benefits, and great perks. In addition to offering a competitive salary and company stock options, we have other great benefits available. You’ll find comprehensive medical, Group Medical Insurance, Term Insurance, Accidental Insurance, paid time off, Maternity leave, and much more. We offer unlimited access to online professional courses for both professional and personal development, coupled with people manager development programs. We believe in a flexible working environment, to allow our Aeranauts to perform at their best, ensuring a healthy work-life balance. When you’re working from the office, you’ll also have access to a fully-stocked kitchen with a selection of snacks and beverages.