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Les voyages vont bien au-delà de leur destination ; ils sont tissés de chaque souvenir que l’on crée en chemin. Notre engagement consiste à redéfinir l’avenir du voyage en collaborant avec plus de 250+ compagnies aériennes, établissements hôteliers, sociétés de croisières, réseaux ferroviaires pour voyageurs et services financiers, dans le but de créer de nouvelles sources de revenus significatives grâce à des expériences client exceptionnelles. Fondés sur nos valeurs fondamentales d’ambition, d’innovation et de collaboration, nous sommes constamment poussés à repousser les limites, à surpasser les attentes et à exploiter le meilleur de chacun. Nous favorisons une culture qui repose sur la conviction que notre force réside dans notre unité, travaillant ensemble pour bâtir un avenir extraordinaire dans l’univers du voyage. Joignez-vous à nous pour transformer les voyages quotidiens en expériences véritablement extraordinaires.

WHAT YOU’LL LOVE ABOUT US:

RRSP/401(k) Matching
Comprehensive health plans
Flexible Paid Time Off
✈️Annual upgrade credit
️‍ ️Annual physical wellness credit
Annual mental wellness credit
Flexibility to work remotely
Parental Leave Top Up
Adventure Pass

ABOUT THE ROLE:

Plusgrade is searching for an experienced Software Engineering Manager, Quality Assurance to contribute as a transformational leader to the growth of our quality engineering group and the improvement of our quality stance. If you are collaborative, curious, have Agile experience and you have built and worked with great teams before, come and talk to us.
As an Engineering Manager, Quality Assurance you will be leading the quality development of a SaaS application on a cloud-powered infrastructure (AWS). You will lead a talented team composed of Software Development Engineers in Test (SDETs). You’ll need to be well versed and current in Agile practices and general software development technologies while exercising servant leadership. You will use your technical judgment, experience, and knowledge to work with self-organizing teams, work on long-term quality strategy and participate in leading the development teams from concept to deployment and support.
This is a role for a true change agent: someone who can take our existing quality practices and elevate them. Your mission will include maturing our release processes and significantly enhancing our test coverage, directly impacting the confidence and speed of our delivery to partners.
This position is part of the Software Engineering organization, will be located in Montreal and will report into the Director, Quality Assurance.
We firmly believe there are many challenging opportunities in travel technology. If you are excited about helping us solve some of them, we would like to meet you!

WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING:

• Take ownership and drive quality initiatives and bring them to development teams to deliver quality products on time, following the Agile software development process.
• Proactively seek partnerships and collaborate with multi-functional product development teams to define quality strategy, product roadmap and technology roadmap.
• Strategically manage the capacity and allocation of SDETs to various product squads and partner launch projects, ensuring balanced workloads and optimal project support.
• Lead, mentor, and foster the career development of a high-performing team of SDETs. You will be responsible for recruiting, performance management, providing constructive feedback, and creating growth opportunities to build the next generation of quality leaders.
• Build and nurture a culture in quality organization of long term quality, ownership, collaboration, continuous improvement, data driven decision making, plus champion initiatives to build more robust and efficient testing frameworks.
• Take ownership of our release pipeline. You will analyze our current processes, identify bottlenecks and risks, and implement a strategic roadmap to improve release velocity and confidence in our regular & unscheduled releases.
• Drive software quality validation process improvements by being a primary advocate and evangelist for quality for the product engineering team Be responsible for the timeliness and quality process of all squad deliverables while motivating, engaging, and inspiring your team.
• Serve as a key leader in our engineering organization, guiding the team through the evolution of our processes and technologies with strong change management principles.Promote a culture of feedback and transparent communication