Job Description
Rocketlab is seeking an individual who will undertake a significant role as a Quality Lead for international clients' projects (English as business language) with a broad knowledge and experience in Software Testing, Development and agiles software engineering.
Soft skills:
- Passionate
- Curious
- Quick learner
- Problem solver
- Clear communication
- Think outside the box
Foundation skills: Broadbase knowledge of
- Agile software engineering (Scrum, SAFe, ...)
- Quality standards, ie. ISTQB, iSQI, ISO etc.
- Excellent English language skills
- Leader, Motivator and Innovator
- Experience in client´s consultancy as SPOC (signle point of contact)
- Perfectly understand client´s needs and can translate into IT specifications (QA, test requirements)
- Can lead with a virtual team (team is spread around the globe), communication via video conferencing
Requirements
Must haves
- Strong agile delivery background and experience at both team and leadership levels
- Experience in leading and coaching a quality mindset across multiple Agile scrums teams
- Experience of digital/agile transformation within large organisations
- Able to evangelise ‘built-in quality’ and practically demonstrate how this can be applied on a day-to-day basis when working within an Agile team
- Able to advocate shift left testing techniques and drive their implementation
- Strong business stakeholder influencing and communications skills at all levels
- Experience of working with teams with varying levels of Agile maturity and the ability to identify the right improvements at the right time
Pick & Mix
- Qualification in SAFe® (Scaled Agile Framework) - we can help here!
- Able to sell the case and benefits of product teams owning quality
- Expert in agile testing techniques - BDD, TDD, mocking, stubs, testing in isolation
- Able to evangelise the QCoE quality narrative to the wider business stakeholders
- Expertise in applying the right tools, guidance and frameworks to help agile teams write better automated tests
- Experience of DevOps and CI/CD practises and the layers of testing required therein
- Able to identify opportunities to leverage cloud native approaches to improve quality e.g. virtualised test data, service virtualisation, containerisation
- Understanding to the Agile test pyramid and how to achieve an optimised balance in the different levels of testing
- Experience of API automation frameworks
- Experience of UI automation frameworks
- Exposure to unit test approaches
- Understanding of how effective with Scrum and test automation reporting can help to drive quality improvements
Good verbal and written communication skills in English
German language would be an advantage (but not a must)
Company offers
- Very competitive compensation and discretionary performance based bonus
- Exciting work environment and work from home ability
- 100% remote work possible (not only during COVID-19 situation), but occasional onsite meetings in Tallinn, Tartu, Riga or Liepaja required (once per every second month)
- Optimal work-life balance
- Bonus for successful project completed
- Rare business trips abroad (UK, Germany & Switzerland) for lead roles
- Personal development plan in accordance with her/ his manager
Please apply with a complete profile/ CV including your work history, portrait (most recent), contact details and full personal data (date of birth, address, ...)