Senior Software Testing Manager Job Listing at SAIC in Huntsville, AL (Job ID 2616354)

Description

Description

SAIC has an immediate need for a Senior Software Testing Manager to support the Precision Fires team supporting the Aviation and Missile Center located in Huntsville, AL onsite at Redstone Arsenal.  

JOB DUTIES:

People Leadership and Development

• Leads the team in development of test plans, test schedule, and approach for all testing environments 
• Conducts a walk through on test needs with Test Managers, Requirement Leads, Project Managers, and Development Leads
• Give direct, timely, specific feedback in a way that makes clear you are invested in the person receiving it, and ask for the same about your own leadership
• Own performance management for your reports: goal setting, reviews, compensation input, recognition, honest intervention when performance falls short, and advocacy in promotion calibration.  Coach rather than rescue

Team Culture and Engagement

• Connect the team's day-to-day work to the mission it serves, so every engineer understands why their work matters to the warfighter and to the program
• Build an inclusive team by setting norms that work across time zones and working styles: protected overlap hours, written updates that don't require everyone online at once, fair meeting times, and decisions recorded where people can find them later 

Delivery and Execution

• Own the team's ability to execute against the priorities and sprint plan it is given: staffing, skill coverage, workflow, and the engineering practices that keep delivery predictable, including code review, test automation, CI/CD, definition of done, and release readiness
• Give product management and the product owner a clear read on the team's capacity and staffing risk, and take part in sprint planning and the team's other ceremonies

Qualifications

Required Education: 

• BS degree and seventeen (17) years of related experience 

Required Skills: 

• Experience leading software teams delivering complex, mission-critical, or high-reliability systems
• Demonstrated experience directly managing software test engineers, including performance reviews, career development, difficult performance conversations, and the discretion personnel matters require, with specific examples of people who grew, were promoted, or took on greater scope under your leadership
• Experience managing engineers within a larger engineering organization, reporting to Director, and working alongside architecture, product, and systems engineering counterparts, with the judgment to know what you decide, what you escalate, and what you bring forward for alignment
• Professional software engineering background with enough depth to earn the credibility of senior engineers, take part in design discussions, evaluate technical trade-offs and risk, and recognize when technical debt or design decisions are hurting the team's throughput

Required Clearance: 

• Must have an active Secret Security Clearance