QA Manager Hands-On

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Demand Media is growing, and we are looking for a hands-on, technical QA Manager for our Santa Monica Team. Our ideal candidate moves fast, is capable of breaking down and solving complex problems, and has a strong will to get things done. The Demand Media QA team works on real world problems at a global scale.
At Demand Media, you can expect to design flexible and scalable test strategies and automation to provide both wide and deep coverage of our websites and mobile apps, and to ensure the quality of our content, our user experience, and the collection of accurate analytics data.
You will oversee a hybrid team of black box and automation engineers across our media (eHow, LiveStrong, International) and marketplace (Society6) sites. Our QA team is horizontal across our sites, with embedded QA engineers establishing best practices and standards across the engineering teams they work with. A key success factor for this role will be a facility for making pragmatic tradeoffs in what should be automated and what should be tested manually. This position will report into the VP of Software Engineering.
Responsibilities:
Responsible for designing the overall strategy for end-to-end QA testing framework.
Oversee a team of 8 to 10 QA engineers
Ensure on time and on budget execution of projects, small and large.
Propose new projects aligned with the company goals, including resource estimates and value propositions.
Work closely with business stakeholders and external customers to ensure critical issues are addressed.
Lead test plan/cases review for large-scale integration projects and post-mortem assessments of projects.
Provide guidance to the team on automation strategy.
Document and communicate issues, risks and concerns.
Collaborate closely with product, project, and development teams to identify and resolve technical, business, and process related issues.
Skills & Qualifications:
Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related fields.
7 years of QA and automation experience.
1 years of leading/mentoring test-automation engineers.
Experience working with high volume end-user facing systems.
Strong understanding of object oriented programming concepts.
Strong understanding of backend and service/API testing.
Experience with several of the following: PHP, Python, Java, Javascript, SQL, MongoDB.
Strong experience with web application testing tools (preferably open source software such as Selenium, Cucumber, Robot Framework, and FitNesse).
Strong experience with Linux.
Experience with performance testing and benchmarking.
Excellent communication skills with emphasis on writing clear technical documents.
Nice to haves:
Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related fields.
Experience with the ad tech and web content industries.
Familiarity with high availability, high performance, and service oriented architecture principles.
Experience working with remote teams.
Project management expertise

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