The Senior Manager, Quality Assurance (QA) is responsible for ensuring the customers receive the highest quality solutions possible. The Senior Manager of QA works with Product Management, Engineering, and Project Management leads to define, implement, and execute Quality Assurance activities that span the entire Software Development Lifecycle. This role has responsibility for staffing and supporting an internal testing team, along with responsibility for engaging and collaborating with external Quality Assurance vendor partners. This position is a chance to interact with many highly collaborative agile teams.

An ideal candidate has experience testing any platform (iOS, Android, Windows, Mac, Linux) and is familiar with validating SaaS solutions. Strong communication and technical skills are required as well as knowledge in working with automation frameworks, APIs, mobile devices, relational and document databases. The candidate should be familiar with front-end and back-end development in a services-based environment and comfortable translating business requirements into well-defined test cases.

Job Responsibilities:

• Manage the Quality Assurance team
• Foster a team environment of collaboration, respect, and continuous learning
• Provide technical leadership, career development, mentoring and ongoing management for our QA Associates
• Develop and execute product testing strategy and plans
• Identify appropriate test strategies, test environment requirements and activities based on application-specific technical and functional characteristics
• Work with the team to architect application test frameworks and infrastructure
• Manage and maintain test plans and test cases covering functional product, integration, performance for automated and manual testing
• Plan test execution cycles to meet product release schedules
• Drive continued adoption of test automation strategies and technologies, staying abreast of current industry trends and best practices. Work to integrate automated testing into the Agile SDLC.
• Oversee the ongoing development of end-to-end automated regression test suites; expand test coverage through constant monitoring of the regression test suite
• Assess readiness and deviation of product/ project performance based upon test results and product specifications
• Certify and approve product releases for delivery
• Define, document and improve our QA testing standards, tools, procedures and guidelines
• Drive strategic initiatives to reduce time to market, increase quality and expand test automation
• Conduct trend and root cause analysis and determine risk mitigation strategies
• Establish quality metrics and tracking mechanisms
• Create dashboard(s) that provide increased visibility into key metrics and trends. Identify actionable items from this data analysis and use to drive the appropriate improvements across the development team
• Manage the performance testing to be efficient in simulating production load and stress on our systems
• Collaborate with DevOps in the management of multiple application environments, including QA, UAT, Staging, etc., and the code contained therein.
• Ensure testing of vendor products meets our standards
• Demonstrate behaviors consistent with the Company’s Vision, Mission, and Values in all interactions with customers, co-workers and suppliers
• Adhere to all company policies, procedures and safety standards

Qualifications:

• Prefer ten or more years of software testing or development experience
• 5+years of experience leading and mentoring QA teams comprised of both manual and automation test engineers

• 3+ years of experience with cloud-based SaaS solutions
• 3+ years of experience with mobile application validation
• Knowledge and experience working in the cloud (Specifically using AWS)
• Knowledge and experience with Agile development practices

• Experience with continuous integration and test driven development
• Ability to manage and direct at all levels of testing including unit, functional, automation, regression, performance and scalability testing
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Good team player who shares knowledge and experience with team members •
• BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent

About Digital Turbine, Inc.

At Digital Turbine, we believe there is better way for smartphone users to discover new apps and content. Our Mobile Delivery Platform makes it easier than ever for people to discover new apps frictionlessly, for operators and OEMs to build new revenue streams, and for advertisers reach users at scale. We are a global mobile technology company that is passionate about delivering the right content to the right person at the right time. Digital Turbine has delivered more than one billion app installs for hundreds of advertisers. More than 22 million smartphone users engage with Digital Turbine's software technology each month across more than 30 global operators and OEMs.

Reasons to Work for Digital Turbine:

• We’re a leader in an evolving industry – The mobile app business is booming and changing every day, which means that we are always adapting to stay ahead of the curve.
• Take an Opportunity to work with the industry’s top talent – Many of our employees have over a decade’s worth of experience in the mobile app space. We are a company of ‘A’ players and only look for the best people to join our team.
• We live our values – We regularly Laugh and applaud our Results with our Global partners.
• We’re a company that values diversity & inclusion. Everyone has a voice and can make their mark – Every employee has the opportunity to implement new processes, design new programs, and be creative within their unique role.
• High Growth—We’re growing quickly, which gives our employees exciting opportunities to take on new challenges and have a significant impact on the company’s future.
• Flexible work environment – Employees enjoy coming to work in jeans, working in an open environment, and lounging on couches with their laptop. We offer an unlimited vacation policy too! We work hard but respect our employee’s work/life balance and general well-being. Freedom is one of our values.
• Company Equity-- All employees are expected to make an impact, so everyone is granted stock options when they join the company.
• Equitable Compensation—we believe in every employee’s impact, giving every employee annual stock option awards, a bonus that is based on both individual and company performance and we pay a basic Living Wage.
• When we say global, we mean it—Digital Turbine has 6 physical locations around the world and employees in more than 10 countries.
• We fuel your “tank”—In addition to a great job with great people, our office kitchens are stocked with plenty of snacks and drinks to help get you through each day.
• Beer Fridays—Every Friday afternoon, the company breaks away from work to come together and unwind after a busy week. Enjoy coffee, tea, juices, soda and water anytime.

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