The Role:
- Providing technical quality engineering leadership and expertise to multiple engineering teams.
- Playing a key role in evangelizing a full-stack quality engineering philosophy within the organization, uplifting standards in test automation, performance engineering, security testing and overall testing processes
- The selection of test strategy for projects and providing guidance and recommendations to teams on achieving the optimum testability (Test Automation, Performance Engineering and Security Testing)
- Providing technical QE direction to Quality Engineers in adherence to coding, quality, functionality, performance, scalability and on-time delivery standards
- Supporting QE teams in test estimations, planning, test design, reporting and matrices in order to achieve quality in deliveries
- On a regular basis, reviewing test scenarios and automated test scripts and providing guidance for continuous improvement
- Staying up to date with emerging trends in quality engineering, while supporting the organization in evaluating suitable strategies and steering feasibility study initiatives
- Training and mentoring Quality Engineers to uplift standards and bring testing productivity into test strategies
- Driving tool selection and overseeing the development of test infrastructure across projects
- Working collaboratively with Engineering, Product, Project Management and UI/UX teams to review requirements, architecture and designs to ensure comprehensive testability can be achieved
- Mentoring, coaching and leading a team of Quality Engineers
The Profile:
- A Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent qualification and 8+ years of industry experience
- At least 2 years of experience in playing a similar role and experience in handling multiple projects and clients in diversified technology spectrums
- Strong knowledge of quality engineering practices and processes
- Expert knowledge of Agile software testing practices, test design techniques and test reporting
- Experience working in an Agile and DevOps environment and strong knowledge in software engineering concepts
- Experience in solving software test automation challenges in a pragmatic approach
- Experience in building web and mobile test automation frameworks using open-source tools such as Selenium and Appium
- Experience in testing middle-tier and service-oriented architectures using tools such as Rest-Assured or SoapUI
- Strong knowledge of Java, OOP concepts, coding standards and improving code quality
- Expertise in backend or API performance testing
- Expertise in performance testing tools such as JMeter
- Experience in testing large scale enterprise services, or performance/scale/stress tests
- Experience in working with continuous integration/delivery, build and source control tools such as Jenkins, Maven and GIT
- Excellent communication, presentation, leadership and negotiation skills
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
- Professional certifications such as ISTQB, PMI-ACP or CSM (Certified Scrum Master) would be an added advantage
- A thirst for learning and regularly updating knowledge
Why you should join Sysco LABS:
- An attractive base compensation and benefits package which is comfortably above market rates
- The opportunity to work with high-caliber individuals across the organization
- Technical training and soft skills development programs
- Fast career growth, recognition and senior leadership opportunities for good performers
- Overseas travel and exposure to client environments based on business requirements
- A flexible, diverse and entrepreneurial work environment, and a fun work culture that celebrates success regularly
Sysco LABS is the captive innovation center of Sysco Corporation (NYSE: SYY), the world’s largest foodservice company. Sysco is a Fortune 500 company and the global leader in selling, marketing, and distributing food products to restaurants, healthcare, and educational facilities, lodging establishments and other customers who prepare meals away from home. Its family of products also includes equipment and supplies for the foodservice and hospitality industries. With more than 71,000 associates, the company operates 333 distribution facilities worldwide and serves more than 700,000 customer locations. For fiscal 2022 that ended July 3, 2022, the company generated sales of more than $68 billion.
Operating with the agility and tenacity of a tech–startup, powered by the expertise of the industry leader, Sysco LABS is transforming one of the world’s largest industries.
Sysco LABS’s engineering teams based out of Colombo, Sri Lanka and Austin and Houston, TX, innovate across the entire foodservice journey – from the enterprise-grade technology that enables Sysco’s business, to the technology that revolutionizes how Sysco connects with restaurants and the technology that shapes the way those restaurants connect with customers.
Sysco LABS technology is present in the sourcing of food products, merchandising, storage and warehouse operations, order placement and pricing algorithms, the delivery of food and supplies to Sysco’s global network, the in-restaurant dining experience of the end-customer and much more.
