The Engineering Manager will be responsible for leading and maturing the Quality Assurance team while gaining understanding of existing and new products’ features to assist in development and maintenance of test environments, test procedures, and test executions.  Work with an experienced and capable technical team conceiving, creating, and testing the next generation of irrigation devices and connected systems.  If you have quality engineering leadership experience and an enthusiasm for continuous improvement and delivering superb products to the customer, this Engineering Manager opportunity may be for you!

• Drive high value to the business by ensuring QA strategy and activity aligns with business goals, by developing the QA organization and process in high collaboration with product and platform teams.
• Manage and lead a cross-organizational distributed team including internal and external resources in multiple time zones.
• Support agile teams including platform teams who are continuously delivering
• Support agile device new product development teams with waterfall style production release criteria
• Support sustaining and quality improvement activities to maintain product quality and delivery
• Gain a deep understanding of workflows, bottlenecks and efficiency of the entire QA organization
• Work within a budget to streamline and improve the capability and effectiveness of the QA organization
• Leverage automation across product and platform testing in collaboration with the Automation Test Lead
• Develop a QA roadmap and collaborate with stakeholders to create a ‘north star’ + implementation strategy
• Support collaboration between the automation teams and development teams to ensure that testability features are tracked and prioritized appropriately. Develop mini business cases where necessary.
• Lead multiple quality projects simultaneously
• Represent quality team in project and platform core team meetings and report consolidated status of QA
• Plan, co-ordinate and develop manual and automated system test labs
• Ensure test results are tracked and maintained
• Plan personnel and hardware/tool resource needs for testing projects
• Plan and oversee availability of test hardware at right locations for testing
• Collaborate with vendor teams to design, develop and maintain test environments
• Manage and co-ordinate overall QA and project QA budgets
• Manage external vendor budgets, oversee time management and ensure timely payment for vendors
• Support ISO-9001 audits by maintaining excellent project records and documentation
• Provide recommendations for QA toolchains and develop a business case for new tools
• Collaborate with development teams and DEVOPs teams to develop and improve cross-tool coverage, results and traceability for project and platform teams
• Contribute to internal product and platform development process improvement

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• BS in Electrical, Electronic, Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical degree or equivalent extensive experience
• 10+ or more years of experience in a complex product driven engineering development environment
• 7+ years’ experience managing software and device test and quality assurance activities
• Experience delivering high quality products to customers by adhering to continuous improvement practices
• automation scripts
• 7+ years’ experience in mentoring, leading and managing quality teams
• 5+ years’ experience in delivering high-quality, high-volume products to the market as a quality lead
• Experience managing distributed, remote and offshore teams.
• Exposure to firmware, hardware, schematics and related testing practices
• Experience in the development of test plans, test procedures and application testing
• Experience with test asset management and bug tracking tools, such as Zephyr and Jira
• Experience with organizing and managing system test labs
• Excellent understanding of Agile development and test methodologies
• Experience leading QA activities in a full-stack environment including cloud components,

DESIRED Qualifications:

• MBA
• Experience with Zephyr Scale or Zephyr Enterprise
• Experience developing code coverage improvements leveraging deep inspection code coverage toolchains
• Python programming fluency
• Experience leveraging AI to create efficiencies within manual and automated testing

Salary range for candidates based in California: $236,000 - $354,000

Salary range for candidates based in Colorado or New York- New York City: $221,000 - $331,00

Salary ranges include base salary and annual incentive bonus if applicable.

Exact compensation may vary based on skills, experience, and location.

Rain Bird is an Equal Opportunity Employer.