Lead Quality Automation Engineer

Lead Quality Engineer

Shell Recharge Solutions is a leader in delivering the new electric mobility future through innovative software, infrastructure, and professional services that empower utilities, cities, fleets, transit agencies, and automakers to deploy EV charging infrastructure at scale. Our technology is connecting EV infrastructure solutions with public and private charging needs in a safer, cleaner, and smarter way. Headquartered in Offshore India the companys global footprint spans across three continents with deployments in 13 different countries.

At Shell Recharge Solutions, we are looking for candidates who want to be a part of something bigger than themselves passionate, purpose-driven individuals who believe having a career means making a meaningful impact on our business and the world. We believe in creating and doing the right thing through responsible and sustainable EV deployment. We are looking for the innovative, driven to find a solution in a complex and dynamically evolving marketplace and look at no as just a challenge to find the next yes.

Shell Recharge Solutions is seeking a Lead Quality Engineer

Shell Recharge Solutions is looking for a Lead Quality Engineer to join our team and oversee a team of engineers maintaining and streamlining projects. A lead ensures and enforces all quality processes and procedures are followed by quality engineers following business needs and compliance. Mentors and provides direction to team members per company's guidelines.

What youll do:

• Mentor engineer and Sr. Engineers through weekly 1:1
• Track QA sign offs for each of the testing cycles
• Interview new hires in QA department
• Create KT and other transition plans
• Work with QA managers on release schedules
• Delegate and distribute tasks to QA engineers like test case writing and reviews.
• Review manual and automation test cases
• Conduct lessons learned / retrospective meetings
• Run daily stand-up calls with QA teams
• Work with other leads on standardizing process across QA teams
• Direct collaboration with the performance engineer for environment and services health and analysis
• Maintain QA documents, templates and job aids
• Assess capacity and allocate resources for all releases and test cycles
• Review task estimation by engineers
• Create dashboards and work on optimization plans and future roadmaps.
• Provide detailed weekly report on project status and scope
• Innovative technical leadership demonstrated via enhancements, suggestion and/or engagement

What Were Looking For:

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science/ Engineering or 5+ years of Engineering experience
• 7+ years overall QA experience, at least 3 years as a Senior QA Engineer individual contributor
• 3+ years current experience leading projects and teams
• 3+ years writing automated tests
• 2+ years interacting with development team, program management, and DevOps/SRE when launching features and releases
• 5+ years of experience working with AWS, Linux, networked systems and databases
• 3+ years of experience with Python
• High engagement, high collaboration, and positive working relationship with QA manager
• High engagement, high collaboration, and positive working relationship with other Peers, PGM, RM)
• Excellent track record of clear, value test additions and documentation
• Mastery of implementing and navigating Agile process and procedures
• Proactive in scheduling necessary meetings, without direction and implementing solutions.
• Confident communicator in multiple contexts (presentations, meetings, etc)
• Strong knowledge of automation tools
• Work with different departments and upstream and downstream stakeholders like DevOps, Dev leads, Engineering Managers, TMP teams and others
• Collaboration and direct engagement with other QA leads for proper coverage and gap analysis.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with white/gray/black box and automation test methods
• Demonstrated experience in test planning for complex features/systems
• Experience in writing, executing and monitoring test suites using a variety of technologies including, but not limited to, Cucumber, Selenium, ReadyAPI, Postman, Robot Framework
• Ability to track multiple test executions simultaneously and to be able to synthesize the results
• Must be comfortable reading and writing in code
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to provide technical mentorship to other QA engineers.

What We Offer:

• A work environment that allows you to work with and learn from some of the best and brightest in this emerging industry
• The ability to make a difference in a world that needs our technology to help reduce carbon emissions and enable a more sustainable energy future through the use of electric vehicle charging software, services and infrastructure
• The freedom to learn, suggest, and implement innovative new ideas applied to our systems, processes, programs and technologies
• Daily ownership of your role in a challenging, high-growth environment.
• A casual work environment and culture that support work life fit, enabling you to fit life into your work and work into your life, i.e. flexible scheduling, virtualization options, and a generous holiday package
• Competitive pay and benefits programs designed to enable you to thrive inside and outside of work
• Participation in Shell Recharge Solutions performance and rewards bonus program
• Health benefits for employees
• Innovative Paid Time Off Program
• 9/80 Flex Work schedule