Software Engineering Manager – Quality and Front End Platforms (Remote)

at  Home Depot THD

TRAVEL REQUIREMENTS:

• Typically requires overnight travel 5% to 20% of the time.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

• Most of the time is spent sitting in a comfortable position and there is frequent opportunity to move about. On rare occasions there may be a need to move or lift light articles.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• Must be eighteen years of age or older.
• Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.
• Mastery of an object oriented programming language (preferably Java)
• Must be legally permitted to work in the United States

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Experience setting the technical vision for Developing Test Automation and Continuous integration.
• Experience in creating and implementing Test automation strategies, Automated testing methodologies, Tools, Techniques (unit, functional, integration), executing automated test suites, and debugging test failures.
• Experience and conviction around measures to quantify software quality.
• 5-7 years of relevant work experience
• Mastery of Testing Framework such as WebdriverIO, Selenium & Appium
• Mastery of a modern web application framework such as Spring MVC, and Node.js
• Proficient in GraphQL and writing SQL queries against a relational database.
• Mastery of modern product development processes and pipelines
• Proficient in modern Cloud Application Architecture
• Proficient in effective troubleshooting and issue-resolution techniques
• Capable of understanding complicated systems quickly
• Proficiency in guiding Engineers on Software Engineering fundamentals in a professional setting
• Proficient in managing and growing team members in a professional setting
• Proficient in balancing workloads across teams
• Experience managing vendor relationships.
• Experience with translating high-level strategy to tactical execution.

MINIMUM EDUCATION:

• The knowledge, skills and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a bachelor’s degree program or equivalent degree in a field of study related to the job.

PREFERRED EDUCATION:

• No additional education

PREFERRED YEARS OF WORK EXPERIENCE:

• No additional years of experience

MINIMUM LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE:

• None

PREFERRED LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE:

• None

POSITION PURPOSE:

HomeDepot.com is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Manager to lead our technology team in the development and support of our Quality and Front-end Platforms.
We are seeking a leader with a strong understanding of Software Quality for Web and Mobile to build out products focused on shifting left to enable early testing and automation development to prevent issues from leaking to production.
As the ideal candidate, you will be a quality assurance leader and expert with strong communication skills. You should also have a passion for building great software products, this includes a deep understanding of varying testing techniques and the ability to produce new methods through out-of-the-box thinking.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• 30% Delivery & Execution:
• Collaborates and pairs with product team members (UX, engineering, and product management) to create secure, reliable, scalable software solutions
• Documents, reviews and ensures that all quality and change control standards are met
• Writes custom code or scripts to automate infrastructure, monitoring services, and test cases
• Works with vendors and partners for the successful implementation of critical tooling and platforms
• Creates meaningful dashboards, logging, alerting, and responses to ensure that issues are captured and addressed proactively
• Contributes to enterprise-wide tools to drive destructive testing, automation, and engineering empowerment
• Evaluates new technologies for adoption across the enterprise
• Participates in and leads review board sessions to drive consistency across the enterprise
• Fills in on product teams for engineers who are out of the office
• 10% Support & Enablement:
• Fields questions from engineers, product teams, or support teams
• Monitors tools and participates in conversations to encourage collaboration across product teams
• Provides application support for software running in production
• Acts as a technical escalation point for the engineers on the team
• 50% People:
• Provides leadership, mentoring, and coaching to Software Engineers
• Attracts, retains, and develops top talent to build a world class Software Engineering Team
• Conducts annual and mid-year reviews by reviewing individual development plans and team feedback
• Fosters collaboration with team members to drive consistency across product teams, and finds opportunities to expose engineers to career interests
• Acts as a proponent of modern software development practices
• Guides team members in strategy, alignment, analysis, and execution tasks within and across product teams
• Participates in and contributes to learning activities around modern software design and development core practices (communities of practice)
• 10% Learning:
• Learns, through reading, tutorials, and videos, new technologies and best practices being used within other technology organizations
• Builds relationships with technology leaders at other companies to learn best practices and elegant solutions to common problems