QA Manager

QA Manager

Every day we tackle new and exciting challenges to empower developers to build modern cloud, mobile, and edge applications that deliver a premium user experience. Couchbase delivers unmatched performance, scalability, flexibility and financial value across cloud, on-premises, hybrid, mobile and edge deployments. The database market is undergoing a generational shift and is one of the largest market opportunities in enterprise software due to big trends like the need for digital transformation, acceleration to the cloud and innovation at the edge. Join Couchbase to be a part of a greater change. Here you’ll have the opportunity to learn and grow with some of the most innovative, passionate and humble individuals in the database industry.

Couchbase is growing rapidly, and the Engineering and Cloud teams are at the foundation of our growth.You’ll join at an ideal time to make a big impact. Our systems have scaled well to date but we need to expand our capabilities by an order of magnitude.What this means is that we need to successfully formulate, organize, coordinate, and monitor interconnected projects and programs of large scope, impact, and complexity through all phases of the life cycle.

Are you the individual who is customer focused and can lead a Quality Engineering team working on Cloud? If so, read on. The Couchbase Server team is looking for a QA Manager who can drive high quality for all the components. As part of this role, you will learn the Couchbase products and QE's functional and system frameworks to scale-out our data infrastructure software systems. You will optimize the framework developed in Python/Golang to handle larger scale under heavy load and stressful conditions. You will be part of a great team that is going through some exciting growth and development. 

Responsibilities: 

• We are a global team. On a regular basis you will interact with other teams like fellow QE Manager’s, Product Managers and Development Manager’s spread out in various time zones. 
• You will help us build a test automation framework. You possess in-depth knowledge of tools automation and have tested databases or data stores.
• Prioritize work based on business value & customer needs
• Ability to hire, mentor, develop and retain top performers
• Generate Quality related metrics and present to various team members
• You love working in a  fast-paced environment and like to be an outstanding team player

Requirements: 

• You would have played similar QE Management role for at least 4 - 6 years in the software industry, with overall experience of 10+ years
• Proven track record of delivering high quality enterprise software products through geographically distributed teams operating in agile environment
• You will spread your obsession over quality enhancement of Couchbase products to your team and others you will be working with on a daily basis.
• You understand how to work efficiently with small team and roll your sleeves on regular basis
• Demonstrated knowledge of Cloud platforms and mobile platforms/tools like XCode / Android Studio / Xamarin is desirable. 
• Demonstrated knowledge of testing one or more of the following: server performance, API interfaces, distributed systems, databases, data storage, file systems, operating systems, network performance.
• You are a hands on programmer in Python, C,C++ or Java Review code and make sure quality standards are maintained
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, analytical skills, fanatical attention to detail, and curiosity
• Demonstrated competence and self-motivation in analyzing problems
• Experience with CI/CD tools like Jenkins