Manager - Development

Job Description

As a Manager Development (Software Testing), you will lead an engineering team to ensure the highest standards of product quality. This role involves developing and implementing quality engineering strategies, managing quality processes, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive continuous improvement. You will partner closely with Quality Engineers and Software Engineering Managers to help build out test automation solutions, enable continuous testing, enforce quality engineering and agile best practices. You will also be responsible for growing the careers of your team. You will regularly exercise discretionary and substantial decision-making authority.

Role and Responsibilities

• Lead a team of quality engineers and software development engineers in test.
• Build the quality and automation practices for the team.
• Implement process changes to scale testing efforts, including the development of robust automation systems.
• Work with different teams (Engineering / PM / Design) to collect necessary information to assure quality coverage, and also provide feedback on quality issues.
• Help your team set priorities and remove roadblocks to make sure releases have sufficient testing coverage.
• Assess the status of releases and help ensure that releases go out on time with a high quality level.
• Lead the process of building metrics to measure and monitor product performance.
• Support customer engagement activities, defining the process by which the engineering and quality teams monitor, respond to, and address feedback
• Establish quality engineering best practices and standards within the team to drive quality and excellence.
• Maximize team velocity by removing barriers and reducing team context-switching.
• Recruit, develop, and retain top engineering talent. Mentor engineers, helping them improve their skills and grow their careers.
• Build and mentor the careers of quality professionals, including building skills in automation.
• Evangelize the importance of reliability, security, performance, scalability, operational readiness, and managing technical debt to others in the organization.
• Stay up to date with technology and industry trends to continually drive innovation in our quality engineering architecture, technology choices, engineering practices, and products.

Job Requirement

About The Team

At Wesco, we build, connect, power and protect the world. As a leading provider of business-to-business distribution, logistics services and supply chain solutions, we create a world that you can depend on.

Our Company's greatest asset is our people. Wesco is committed to fostering a workplace where every individual is respected, valued, and empowered to succeed. We promote a culture that is grounded in teamwork and respect. With a workforce of over 20,000 people worldwide, we embrace the unique perspectives each person brings. Through comprehensive benefits and active community engagement, we create an environment where every team member has the opportunity to thrive.

Learn more about Working at Wesco here and apply online today!

Founded in 1922 and headquartered in Pittsburgh, Wesco is a publicly traded (NYSE : WCC) FORTUNE 500® company.

Wesco International, Inc., including its subsidiaries and affiliates ('Wesco') provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, religion, color, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, or other characteristics protected by law. US applicants only, we are an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Los Angeles Unincorporated County Candidates Only : Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance and the California Fair Chance Act.

Skills Required

Java, quality engineering, Test Automation, Rest Assured, Selenium