Join in our growth and help us accelerate our new product introductions. Lead by example to enable a motivated quality team to create world class testing for networked, standalone, and cloud connected irrigation devices. Your willingness to learn, educate others, be hands-on as needed, and your enthusiasm to help will be vital for our team’s success. 

You will make a positive impact by preserving one of our most precious natural resources, water. This will help create more connected and power efficient systems for a brighter future for us all.

The Lead QAS (Quality Assurance) Engineer will be responsible for leading, planning and execution of key QA projects.  

• Be the point-person responsible for QA supporting multiple project and platform teams
• Provide “Cradle to Grave” support for New Product Development and Sustaining Efforts by overseeing the creation and review of test strategies, test plans, and test cases
• Monitor manual and automated test plans/results and provide concise feedback to project and platform teams for release guidance
• Collaborate and mentor functional and automated (including offshore) test teams to achieve project goals
• Identify and advocate for Design for Testability (DFT) requirements and Quality Objectives in larger project meetings
• Day-to-day management and/or coordination of test team(s)
• Ensure that test teams obtain the resources (including hardware and tools)
• Clearly communicate summary test status and results; highlight high severity issues
• Provide the voice of QA supporting good business decision-making in go/no-go and promotion assessments
• Gain and maintain knowledge and understanding of product line in all our target markets
• Drive meetings with offshore teams
• Leverage, and drive adopted tools for defect tracking and test automation tools and methodologies

• BS in Electrical, Electronic, Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical degree or equivalent extensive experience
• 9 or more years of experience or the equivalent in a complex product driven engineering development environment
• 9 or more years of experience managing software and device test and quality assurance activities
• Extensive experience with Jira ticket management and workflows
• Experience managing distributed teams
• Experience managing and developing test plans for complex electronic devices like cloud-connected and app-connected devices
• Load and performance testing knowledge in scalable cloud applications/IoT ecosystems
• Demonstrates creative problem solving, attention to detail, and persistence
• Experience leveraging test management toolsets such as Zephyr or others to create test plans, test cases, manage test activity and report on status, results and coverage
• Experience as a lead and/or manager in both agile and waterfall processes
• Ability to convey detailed test results clearly and concisely for decision-making
• Experience with the full product life cycle (e.g., product creation, production release, sustaining, etc.)
• Self-motivated and strong analytical problem-solving abilities. Ability to thrive in situations of ambiguity
• Ability to work compassionately but effectively in a multi-cultural environment
• Experience collaboratively working within an integrated Functional and Automated Test Environment

DESIRED Qualifications:

• Prior experience administering test tools such as Jira, Zephyr Scale, or Zephyr Enterprise
• Experience developing automated tests systems, test scripts and test cases
• Experience developing code coverage improvements leveraging deep inspection code coverage toolchains
• Test Automation Scripting knowledge in a language such as C# or Python

Rain Bird is an equal opportunity employer