Engineering Manager - Test Framework Team

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Pure Storage was founded with the ambitious goal of revolutionizing the computing infrastructure industry. Today we are building the data platform for the cloud era and we’ve accomplished the first step towards that goal by bringing to market the simplest and most reliable all-flash storage array in history. The full potential impact of our line of "Smart Storage" products is only beginning to be felt as customers discover the benefits and exciting applications that can be built on top of a Pure system.

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About the role

FlashBlade product line is a rocket ship on an amazing growth trajectory and with huge untapped potential ahead of it. As an Engineering Manager, Quality in the FlashBlade Business Unit, one of the fastest growing at Pure, you will help us add boosters to this rocket ship and accelerate its market expansion.

We are seeking an Engineering Manager, to lead the team of Talented Software Test Developers primarily focusing on our Automation and Test Framework. You will need to partner with cross functional teams including Development, Quality engineering, and product management and Customer Support to help identify new use cases and/or current gaps/improvements in our automation capabilities. You will need to work with the team and establish a strategy to deliver. As a Quality Engineering leader, you will be involved in scaling up the processes for test driven development to run efficiently in an integrated CI / CD environment and continue to expand the shift left approach for Quality Engineering.

In this role, you'll get to learn, collaborate and contribute to the test strategy, test coverage improvements, working closely with stakeholders to define, develop testing and coverage, collaborate and partner with remote teams to continuously evolve FlashBlade Enterprise Quality. Our open culture and transparency in both strategy and operations allow employees a deeper level of engagement in engineering and business decisions and being closely associated with the phenomenal growth.

What You Will Be Doing

• Lead a team of talented Test Framework Engineers, focusing on optimizing testing procedures and enhancing the quality of software products
• Ensure timely delivery of projects and formulate strategic plans to improve testing efficiency and effectiveness.
• Evangelize creativity in problem solving and innovation within the team.
• Challenge Status-Quo and continue to look for opportunities to improve the process, quality, tooling, importantly enabling shift left approach in software development process.
  
• Collaborate across the entire engineering organization , including remote teams to define strategy by participating in product requirement & product design reviews.
• Define and execute on strategies and enabling test coverage for test driven development at scale
• Measure and drive a balance of efficiency and quality improvements
• Provide technical direction and mentoring to the team and others to ensure product quality and on-time deliverables
• Define and refine Engineering Quality metrics that provide visibility to “now” and drive teams’ goals.
• Maintain effective communication with external stakeholders to align expectations and deliverables and ensure the team's customers have visibility into ongoing projects and priorities.

What You Bring To The Team

• 10 plus years of relevant industry experience, with a minimum of 3 years of technical hands-on leadership and people management experience
• A passion for continuous improvement and “building stuff”
• Hands-on experience in mentoring, hiring, building and scaling up teams.
• Experience in developing test strategies, software test automation.
• Experience with developing automation frameworks and developer tools to increase developer and release velocity
• Experience with test driven development integrated with CI/CD pipelines
• Demonstrated strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Strong knowledge of the enterprise storage industry and related technologies is a big plus
• Demonstrated abilities in Python. your strong coding skills will be instrumental in driving the technical excellence of your team
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills
• BS in Computer Science or equivalent.

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