Quality Engineering Manager
Company
Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
Federal Reserve Financial Services (FRFS) delivers a suite of payments services to financial institutions via FedLine Solutions, Fedwire, National Settlement Service (NSS), FedCash, FedACH, and Check Services.
We are currently leading a strategic effort to transform FRFS to a national, enterprise-focused organization. Over time, FRFS will offer an increasingly integrated set of Federal Reserve payment services, incorporating the FedNowSM Service upon its market entry.
Through our evolved structure, we will meet the needs of the marketplace for new products and services more quickly, we will seek to provide a more robust and unified customer experience across our financial service offerings, and we will create new career growth opportunities for FRFS staff.
We are seeking leaders to set the vision, strategy, values, and priorities that enable FRFS to achieve its mission. Our leaders must demonstrate a strategic, action-oriented mindset focused on intellectual curiosity, agility, accountability, and the ability to drive innovation through experimentation.
To achieve our vision for a people-focused organization with a strong collaborative and innovative culture, we expect our leaders to champion an inclusive environment and demonstrate our values in how we work and interact with each other and our broader community.
You would manage a small quality engineering team (10-15 direct reports) as well as be accountable for the quality of mission critical applications.
Responsibilities include :
Partner with Product Owner, Development, Enterprise Architecture, and Infrastructure (NIT) organizations providing thought leadership in testing of mission critical applications.
Ability to work on multiple tasks while coaching others simultaneously to produce high quality deliverables.
Influences the team with strong working knowledge of test automation and performance testing techniques with the ability to understand implementation value and complexities.
Responsible for providing guidance and leadership to software test engineers, including hands on testing, and troubleshooting of complex applications.
Coaches all team members on quality culture from vision to implementation.
Demonstrates strong innovation, influencing, negotiating skills, and strategic agility.
Collaborate with other members of a cross-disciplinary team operating within the agile SAFE framework to consistently deliver Product improvements according to the guidelines.
Managerial responsibilities of the job include :
Writing and Conducting performance appraisals for the team members
Identifying training needs in collaboration with other leadership
Mentoring and coaching team members
Recruiting and on / off boarding
In conjunction with architecture and other leaders, ensure consistency in usage of development best practices, standards, tools, and processes .
What we are looking for :
The candidate would lead team of quality engineers of mission critical applications. The position is for a leader who has hands-on software engineering as well as leadership experience.
The candidate will be responsible for delivering quality in applications based on the established FRB system architecture and will be involved in the entire delivery life cycle supporting Agile SAFE teams.
Required Technical Skills :
Minimum 8-10 of experience with Java / J2EE distributed application and strong understanding of object-oriented programming .
Strong knowledge of testing tools like LoadRunner , JMeter, Selenium, Rest A ssured, UFT, HP ALM among others in preferred.
Experience with Messaging (MQ / JMS) based Integration applications.
Strong knowledge of SQL, stored procedures (PL / SQL) and database fundamentals .
Experience and understanding of CI / CD pipelines and DevSecOps concepts.
Experience and understanding of Cloud based architecture and technology.
Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university, or equivalent combination of directly related education and / or work experience.
Required Leadership Skills
Typically requires at least 6 years in a formal leadership role or relevant informal leadership experiences. 2+ years of leadership experience with software engineering, quality assurance, site reliability engineering, or performance engineering is preferred.
Experience implementing a comprehensive technical and performance testing background, including troubleshooting performance testing observations and issues .
Experience working in systems, tracking, and coordinating multiple efforts at any given time for functional / regression and performance testing .
Ability to guide & coach other test engineers in functional / regression testing, performance testing, and automat ed testing best practices.
Strong ability to help a team in all facets of the delivery cycle from analysis of requirements, design, development through implementation.
Builds strong partnerships with business, operations, infrastructure, and other key stakeholder groups.
Strong ability to analyze risks, issues, and other data in supporting teams reaching actionable decisions.
Strong understanding of supporting mission critical applications ensuring excellent customer support .
Ability to provide performance feedback and career planning with staff.
Additional Information :
Screening Requirements : This position has additional screening requirements due to the information accessed while performing the job.
These additional screenings would be initiated at the time of offer acceptance and can take up to a couple of months to be completed.
You can begin work before the screening is completed; however, continued employment is contingent on acceptable screening results.
The areas screened may include education / employment verification, criminal history, credit history, and reference checks.
Sponsorship : Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States without the need for visa sponsorship now or in the future.
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Full Time / Part Time
Full time
Regular / Temporary
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Job Category
Supervisory / Management
Work Shift
First (United States of America)
The Federal Reserve Banks believe that diversity and inclusion among our employees is critical to our success as an organization, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool.
The Federal Reserve Banks are committed to equal employment opportunity for employees and job applicants in compliance with applicable law and to an environment where employees are valued for their differences.
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