Manager QA Performance

What You Need To Know

Open the door to a groundbreaking tech career with an industry leader. Southern Glazer's Wine & Spirits is North America's preeminent wine and spirits distributor, as well as a family-owned, privately held company with a 50+ year legacy of success. To create a new era in alcohol beverage sales and service, we're heavily invested in the most transformative new technologies - and the most brilliant tech professionals. Southern Glazer's was named by Newsweek as a Most Loved Workplace and is included on the Forbes lists for Largest Private Companies and Best Employers for Diversity.

As a full-time employee, you can choose from a full menu of our Top Shelf Benefits, including comprehensive medical and prescription drug coverage, dental and vision plans, tax-saving Flexible Spending Accounts, disability coverage, life insurance plans, and a 401(k) plan. We also offer tuition reimbursement, a wellness program, parental leave, vacation accrual, paid sick leave, and more.

We offer continuous learning and career growth in a fast-paced environment where you are respected, your voice is heard, and technology is part of our strategy for success. If you're looking to fill your glass with opportunity, come join our FAMILY.

Overview

As the Manager QA Performance, you will play a crucial role in overseeing a team of highly skilled Performance engineers, QA engineers, and developers focused on tool development, including AI/ML-based software solutions. This role requires a blend of hands-on technical expertise, leadership capabilities, and a deep understanding and experience of secured SDLC, application development, test automations, CI/CD pipelines, security scanning, and cloud infrastructure. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to ensure the seamless delivery of secure, scalable, and efficient software products.

Primary Responsibilities

• As a leader of the Performance QA team, you will be responsible for all the operations that caters to multiple development teams. You will be taking hands-on responsibilities at the same time guiding a team of engineers , distributing tasks, tracking progress, facilitating them to make them successful in their functions.

• Expertise using tools like Zyphyr or JMeter and integrating in the CI pipelines.

• Work with several different teams and develop and manage the Performance test cases for applications developed by them in languages like C, C++, Java and Javascript.

• Responsible for integrating Performance test tools into the CI / CD pipelines

• Defining and tracking KPIs related to Performance metrics

Minimum Qualifications

• 10 years of hands-on experience in app development, build & release management, setting up Performance practice

• Minimum 2-4 years of team lead experience

• Good communicator and motivator

• Experienced in using Kubernetes and Docker

• Good experience in converting build.xml into pom.xml in order to build the applications using Maven.

• Excellent leadership skills with a track record of managing high-performing teams.

• Ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams.

• Working experience with reporting services like JIRA

• Good understanding of the principles and best practices of Software Configuration Management (SCM) in Agile, scrum, and Waterfall methodologies.

• Strong presentation and communication skills

• Self-motivated, takes ownership and accountability and an empathetic leader who nurtures a team to bring the best out of them.

• Deep understanding of unit/system/integration testing, pipelines and DevOps practices

• Experience with the following tools: SAP, Tosca, ADO, Microsoft Power Platform.

• Familiarity with Microsoft Azure and on-prem ecosystems and terminology

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, CS, MIS, or related field

Agile Delivery Values

• Openness - Team and stakeholders agree to be open about all work and challenges

• Commitment - Personally commit to achieving the goals of the team

• Respect - Respect your team members to be capable and independent

• Courage - You have courage to do the right thing and work on tough problems

• Focus - Everyone focus on the work in the sprint and the goal of the scrum team. Rise and fall as a team

Physical Demands

• Physical demands include a considerable amount of time sitting and typing/keyboarding, using a computer (e.g., keyboard, mouse, and monitor), or mobile device

• Physical demands with activity or condition may occasionally include walking, bending, reaching, standing, squatting, and stooping

• May require occasional lifting/lowering, pushing, carrying, or pulling up to 20lbs

EEO Statement

Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits, an Affirmative Action/EEO employer, prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type and provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training. Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits provides competitive compensation based on estimated performance level consistent with the past relevant experience, knowledge, skills, abilities and education of employees. Unless otherwise expressly stated, any pay ranges posted here are estimates from outside of Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits and do not reflect Southern Glazer's pay bands or ranges.

Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.