Quality & Testing Manager

emagine are currently looking for a skilled Quality & Testing Manager. An exciting role, where you will lead a skilled team across locations owning E2E test strategy and build up of tools and frameworks based relevant standards and std. toolchains. You will work closely with initiatives to secure deployment on release management process securing functionality, safety, and compliance before release. This unique role carries global responsibility for quality and release engineering team across all digital solutions, including mobile apps, cloud services, connectivity, hardware, and firmware.

Responsibilities:

Reporting directly to the Senior Director, Digital Solutions, you will lead a team of testers, release managers, and test technology specialists. You will define and govern Quality and release process and toolchain and own the KPIs.

Key tasks will include:

• Set vision and lead development and execution of test strategies for software and hardware IOT.

• Define quality and release standards and best practices; enforce global quality release governance, oversee release pipelines, version control, and update processes.

• Ensure products meet safety, reliability, and regulatory compliance standards and secure compliance documentation/evidence for relevant regulations by planning and overseeing test execution across projects.

• Collaborate with architecture, app/cloud, connectivity, and hardware/firmware teams, as well as the rest of Quality and Product approval and verification departments to deploy processes and roadmaps improving Quality.

• Enable continuous root cause analysis from return products with service & Quality and ensure future platform is built on AI and predictive maintenance for fast OTA updates.

• Enhance test efficiency and coverage via data-driven analytics and forecasting and quality metrics to support decision-making.

• Mentor and develop quality assurance and release engineering talent and deployment of processes across value stream teams, accountable for sign off and release decisions.

• Handle employee management across locations.

Requirements:

You are an experienced leader with strong system engineering credentials and workflow transformational skills and the ability to influence both technical and business stakeholders.

• Minimum 8 years’ experience in quality assurance and release management within IoT, embedded, physical, product development environments.

• Master’s degree in software quality IOT, Computer Science, or embedded software engineering

• possessing applied knowledge with AI workflow optimization in IOT/Embedded environment

• Strong experience in V-Model and agile development approaches or ISTQB Test Manager (Advanced Level) certification.

• Solid experience with test management tools (eg GitHub, Zephyr, Snyk).

• Experience with compliance documentation and evidence handling (CE, Machine Directive, RF/EMC, CRA, RED etc.)

• Experience with using SAST, SCA or DAST (Static Application Security Testing, Software Composition Analysis, Dynamic Application Security Testing)

• Strong leadership, communication, and process discipline skills.

• Business proficiency in English is a must.

• Comfort in building and transforming workflows.

• A leadership style that is analytical, visual, collaborative, and pragmatic.

As an individual, you have excellent communication and collaboration skills. You are driven by a passion for continuous improvement, and you work seamlessly with diverse teams to achieve shared objectives.

Start: ASAP

Duration: 5 months

Workload: Full time + onsite

Location: Brno, Czech Republic