To be successful in this role you will need to have the following skillsets and experience;

• Software Testing Specialization
• Indepth knowledge of the testing landscape and ensuring production ready code is fit for purpose and error free for a SaaS company
• Strong Testing skills with an eye toward how the whole department can continually improve
• Stay up to date on new testing technologies and recommend new tools to adopt
• Win the broad confidence of the engineering and product departments regarding good approaches to testing
• Liaise with engineers, team leads, and product managers to allocate resources to achieve shared testing objectives
• Coordinate the management of testing fixtures
• Actively encourage good coding practices through linting and other automatic checks, code reviews, department education, and other means
• Work with a suite of PHPUnit unit and functional tests as well as Cypress end-to-end tests that are executed on each branch and each deploy
• Used to working with CI/CD Pipeline Deployment multiple times per day
• Informal leadership skills to put these plans into action
• Proactively identify and address operational risks (e.g. regressions in future development, failures from third parties, etc.)
• Provide thought leadership and actively contribute to company and/or product strategy
• Find solutions to the companies biggest technical challenges
• Coordinate team Software testing practices
• Mentor and guide the software testing team and collaborate with Development
• Collaborate with the designers and product managers to balance the competing goals of efficient development and maintenance.
• Stay up to date on new testing toolsets and strategies and recommend the ones the business should adopt
• Work closely with the engineering department regarding good approaches to development based on testing outcomes
• Work with the Director of Engineering to establish specific Software Testing objectives for the quarter
• Liaise with engineers and team leads to allocate testing resources to achieve shared objectives
• Monitor software performance, quality of user experience, and code stability
• Actively encourage good testing practices through linting and other automatic checks, code reviews, department education, and other means