Engineering Manager Test Job In Commonwealth Bank In India, Bengaluru / Bangalore

You will be expected to perform the following tasks and responsibilities in a manner consistent with CBA's Values and People CapabilitiesQuality Management in Project DeliveryExperience:12+ yEARS

• Provide guidance and technical direction on the test strategy, approach and planning towards the design, implementation and maintenance of test assets in support of the delivery of Digital solutions

• Facilitate and support scrum teams to analyses & understand solution designs, capture requirements and system dependencies in an Agile environment that contribute directly or indirectly to the development & coding, testing, debugging, maintenance and documentation of application programs to ensure applications are built and perform to specification correctly and user needs are met
• Collaborate closely with scrum teams within portfolio to promote best QA engineering practices in support of testing activities and project delivery
• Focal point of communication on the quality assurance of project delivery with internal & external stakeholders
• Identify, mitigate or prevent if possible risks and issues associated with customer impacts, technical delivery and quality assurance as part of project work
• Provide insight to solution design and architecture from quality assurance perspective including both functional and non-functional attributes
• Deliver and drive Test Automation strategy and ensure adoption within scrum teams Use your knowledge of automation tools and best practices to facilitate progression automation
• Ensure that key automation deliverables are reported on and communicated with business stakeholders

Continuous Improvements/Technical Support & Enablement

• Collaboratively research, consult, analyse and evaluate QA technical delivery needs, and seek or create opportunities for improvements by identifying technology limitations and deficiencies in existing systems and associated processes, procedures and methods.
  
  
• Proactively cultivate innovation through experimentation of tools, techniques and technology to enhance QA engineering capability and influence desired behaviour & cultural changes
• Promote and advocate the adoption of best QA practices in Agile contributing to product development
• Identify areas of risk and implement ideas and innovation to overcome challenges and blockers
• Review the tools and processes used for Automation and ensure that improvements and identified and implemented across all teams

People/Team Management

• Facilitate appropriate skill uplift and cross-skilling of the QA team
• People leader and management responsibilities, including hiring, periodic reviews, performance and demand management
• Inspiring and motivating the team to always strive to achieve best outcomes
• Nurture a community based culture of continuous learning, knowledge sharing and mutual support
• Create outcome based metrics and performance indicators around Automation for the team
• Enable team to deliver on Automation initiatives
• Manage and maintain the testing portfolio, including forecasting, planning, scheduling and assigning test resources against the demand portfolio
• Manage and maintain the testing portfolio, including forecasting, planning, scheduling and assigning test resources against the demand portfolio

Your experienceEssential

• Detailed understanding and strong advocate of Agile methodology for Digital project delivery
• Proven & demonstrable experience in the development of Agile test strategy adopting best QA engineering practice, risk based prioritisation approach and strong focus on test automation in support of Continuous Delivery (CD)
• Detailed technical understanding of software development & testing practices such as Test Driven Development (TDD) and Behaviour Driven Development (BDD)and life-cycles and demonstrable experience to simplify & streamline testing processes in an Agile environment
• Excellent communications and stakeholder management skills, with an established business acumen
• Proven & demonstrable ability to elaborate and articulate complex technical problems to non-technical stakeholders, and to challenge the norm regardless of disciplines when required
• Proven & demonstrable ability to establish rapport, engage and maintain working relationships with internal & external stakeholders, service providers and peers across multiple disciplines and seniority in an Agile environment
• Proven & demonstrable experience and kills in QA governance & management for Digital project delivery through effective use of data trending analytics and metrics
• Strong understanding of delivery methodology such as Continuous Delivery (CD) and DevOps

• Strong understanding of continuous integration technologies

• Strong understanding of virtualisation & containerisation tools
• Strong understanding of large scale enterprise application architecture and technologies
• Detailed & current technical understanding of functional test automation framework including both mainstream commercial and open source tools

• Demonstrable working experience in promoting awareness & importance of functional and non-functional testability in Digital solution designs in scrum teams across multiple disciplines
• Proven experience & ability to learn and apply industry best patterns and practices from QA engineering stand point for mobile & web application stacks

• Proven & demonstrable problem solving skills & attention to details & quality
• Proven & demonstrable experience in leading continuous improvements initiatives in QA engineering
• Proven & demonstrable experience in presenting technical innovation & strategic approach in QA engineering to a wide audience including senior management and other technical and business stakeholders across multiple disciplines

• Proven & demonstrable experience & ability to supervise and inspire teams to solve complex technical problems
• Proven & demonstrable experience in leading a team of engineers to support software development tasks such as to design, develop, modify, document, test, implement, install and support software applications and systems.
  
  
• Excellent technical and people leadership with exceptional organisational skills and the ability to concurrently manage, inspire and coach multiple test teams across different locations within a dynamic, collaborative & Agile environment

Desirable

• Proven & demonstrable experience of Microsoft technology stack, IIS, SQL Server, REST API, AWS and Azure
• Proven & demonstrable experience in continuous integration technologies such as TeamCity, Stash and Github
• Proven & demonstrable experience in virtualisation tools such as Mountebank
• Experience in or exposure to containerisation technologies and tools such as Docker
• Detailed understanding of cloud technologies and experience in or exposure to building & testing cloud based applications
• Experience in or exposure to non-functional testing, including but not limited to performance / security penetration testing
• Experience in or exposure to mobile application development in Android or iOS
• Experience in or exposure to JavaScript based framework such as Angular and React

Your qualificationsEssential:

• Tertiary qualifications in an IT/computer-related discipline
• Holds a Testing/QA certification, eg ISTQB

Desirable:

• ISTQB Advance Test Analyst / Advanced Test Manager
• Holds an agile certification (ie Agile testing/Agile foundations/certified scrum master)

Your developmentIn this role you will gain experience in:

• Start-up (eg.
  
  managing or contributing to a new service, product, business, system or process)
• Turn around (eg resolving inherited business challenges, turning around a struggling business area/team or improving customer service measures (ICSM or External Customer Surveys))
• Organisational change (eg leading, managing or contributing to a strategic refocus, a restructure, an acquisition/merger or change management)
• Project management (e.
  
  g managing and/or implementing key projects, applying process excellence methodology, managing cross-business project teams, influencing and negotiating with others)
• Financial management (eg managing a budget, P&L responsibilities, handling complex financial issues or financial reporting/processing)
• Risk management (eg.
  
  managing financial, customer and reputation risks or risk processing/reporting)
• People management (eg leading a large team, developing others, handling difficult staffing and customer situations)
• External relations (eg representing the organisation externally through direct customer contacts or vendor management)
• Cross cultural (e.
  
  g work overseas, experience working with other cultures or managing virtual team)

On the job development opportunities will be identified for you between you and your manager They will work with you to create and action your development and career planIf you're already part of the Commonwealth Bank Group (including Bankwest), you'll need to apply through to submit a valid application We're keen to support you with the next step in your career.

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