Job Description:
As the manager of the Test Platform team as part of the Productivity Engineering organization, you will lead a team responsible for the development of test automation and related DevOps tooling with a focus to increase the speed and quality of the software delivery. You will develop a deep understanding of our world class SaaS tax solutions and orchestrate sophisticated testing frameworks and models that exercises critical customer paths.
What is the Vertex Productivity Engineering team? Our goal is to unleash innovation and bring operational excellence to software development with insights, tools, and infrastructure that enables frictionless delivery of features with high bars for quality, security, and reliability.
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES:
· (MUST HAVE) People management experience within software development, managing a high-performing team with strong DevOps capabilities around CI/CD and test automation
· (MUST HAVE) CI/CD pipeline experience with cloud-centric applications across a variety of stacks
· (MUST HAVE) Experience designing, developing, executing, and triaging end-to-end test automation against cloud-based products
· (MUST HAVE) Development of applications/services in a cloud environment.
· (MUST HAVE) Experience with AWS
· Recruiting, interviewing, and hiring top engineering talent to fill out team needs that are aligned with a broader talent strategy
· Development of engineer’s career planning and skills growth. Identify areas for engineers to build more knowledge and create opportunities for them to exercise these new engineering and soft skills in practice
· Work closely with leadership located in other geographies on joint efforts to address key business goals
· Development of DevOps tooling used for production code, including both creation of new services as well as integration and operation of 3rd party.
· Deep understanding of software testing including unit, component, system, end-to-end, contract, and interoperability, BDD, TDD.
· Must be able to quickly acquire product knowledge, read business scenarios, and transform those into test automation.
· Data-driven with working history of measuring test automation efficacy and efficiency.
· Experience developing in multiple languages with priority of Java, .NET, Python, Go
· Collaborate with teams and individuals across the organization to understand their challenges, discuss solutions, and support their use of tooling
· Practitioner of agile practices and play lead roles such as Scrum Master or Product Owner. Agile role certifications a plus, including value stream mapping practices to identify and eliminate waste in software delivery processes
· Display empathy towards engineers and their friction, work with them to develop common solution.
· Must possess strong interpersonal, organizational, presentation and facilitation skills.
· Must be results oriented and customer focused.
ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
· Exemplify a DevOps culture and lead a fast-moving agile team by promoting collaboration, continuous improvement, and best practices. Mentor and build leaders, establish accountability, and foster high levels of trust to push decision-making to individuals who can move things expediently. Encourage open communication and teamwork to ensure the team's success.
· Lead a team that will architect and coordinate establishment of solutions level test automation, focused on testing product portfolio of leading SaaS indirect tax software. This includes the development, execution, and triage of test automation to cover critical customer paths
· Lead engineering wide programs and projects around improving efficiency, leveraging common development and test platforms, and up-leveling the DevOps maturity of our core products
· Development of shared deployment pipeline services and automation for delivery of cloud applications through multiple environments, on multiple stacks include cloud-native Kubernetes as well as AWS EC2 instances
· Develop services and tools to handle the scheduling and orchestration of automated test suites
· Create cloud and application environment automation (infrastructure-as-code)
· Champion inner source programs and drive the establishment of common tool and automation assets that are adopted and contributed to by value streams
· Data-driven analysis and monitoring for triage of failures of services/applications, pipelines, and tests
· Write and structure documentation, representing architectures and user flows visually
· Lead team in development of services and tools. Provide guidance on code quality and DevOps routines for the development and release of these services and tools.
· Identify inefficiencies in the flow of value through the DevOps pipeline and design improvements to accelerate and optimize
EDUCATION AND TRAINING:
· Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, or related field; or equivalent combination of education/experience. Master’s degree is a plus.
· 12 years or more experience of software development with 5 years or more in a people management position.
SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES:
· Manage a team of varying seniority and skills around application/service development, test automation, and CI/CD. Team is focused on creating solutions level end-to-end test framework and scenarios.
· Be part of larger engineering quality initiatives align team to vision and strategy
· Be an influential people leader of a new site for Vertex. This includes working with site leader and senior leadership in coordinating site-level activities and other functions as the site grows.
