Software Quality Leader - Home Solutions Division

Our mission is to deliver great quality outcome to our customers, bringing technical expertise and continuously challenging on design practices to get robust, reliable and easy to use software/firmware and systems for the Home Solutions Division. Develop and promote methods & tools to deliver the best customer experience in a globally consistent manner.

What will you do:

• Manage System and SW Quality for the Connected Systems team in Home and Distribution Division within Energy Management
• In collaboration with a network of experts including but not limited to R& D Engineer & Project quality leaders
  • Strengthen / Enforce the SW development process from a quality perspective.
  • Deploy the SW Quality Fundamentals to all offers within Home Solutions portfolio.
  • Identify, develop and deploy innovative design practices to strengthen robust SW and FW design, tackling the full customer experience, to avoid bug creation and strengthen bug detection.
  • Ensure team is building relevant and optimized test strategies, considering customers use cases & applications with a strong focus on test automation.
  • Establish metrics and dashboards, tracking progress to ensure teams' are delivering high quality SW ahead of launch or subsequent releases.
  • Work with SW and Systems Architects to ensure testing, logging, and debugging methods are included in SW/Systems Architecture.
  • Ensure teams are performing technical risk assessments.
  • Drive creation and improvements to continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines including the implementation of Qualimetry tools across the division.
  • Drive resolution of open customer issues.
  • Ensure technical debt and bugs are being prioritized and allocated to the product backlog.
  • Representing SW Quality, participate as a key stakeholder in launch readiness events, representing SW Quality, Quality & Cyber-security.
  • Stay up to date on quality practices with internal and external benchmark of best-in-class software development companies.
• Promote the implementation of SW quality on new offers development, using Agile model, and on legacy offers requiring upgrades.
• Bring consistency and coaching in quality methods and tools in Project development, develop expertise in all functions involved on SW development & validation (R& D, marketing, and quality teams).
• Drive the teams to use data as the foundation, creating dashboards from metrics to report progress and learnings, enabling project decisions.
• Close the loop between field data and actions for development teams to improve overall offer quality.
• Manage resource planning for SW Quality and CS& Q Connected Offer team - to ensure resourcing is ahead of demand.
• Drive SW Quality and Quality training across the HS team to contribute to team's maturity and development.

What will make you successful:

Qualifications and experience

• Education in computer science, software engineering or equivalent.
• 15+ years' experience in software/firmware development and software quality assurance.
• 10+ years experience in Quality with APQP, PPAP, product reliability, cyber-security and industry safety standards (ISO-26262)
• Experience managing teams from 10-50 people.
• Collaborate with Executive Leaders, Quality Leaders and other stakeholders across the organization to ensure the Division's offers are at the highest level for SW Quality.
• Strong knowledge of software development methodologies, software architecture, peer reviews, testing techniques, qualimetry (code analysis), and quality assurance processes.
• Experience / Adaptability in using tools such as automation frameworks, configuration management tools, qualimetry (code analysis) tools, test management tools, and defect tracking systems.
• Solid understanding of software development lifecycle (SDLC) and agile methodologies.
• Experience managing change in complex SW Systems.
• Experience implementing SW best practices.
• Experience testing complex, multi-threaded, and multi-component products.
• Experience with API testing or integration.
• Experience with automation testing/frameworks and performance testing/tools.
• Extensive experience with various types of testing including unit, system, integration, user acceptance, regression, usability and end-to-end testing.

Soft skills and personal competencies

• Innovative, analytical approach to solving complex problems and performing troubleshooting.
• Track record of leading complex projects in a hands-on way and mentoring others in test automation design and implementation.
• Capable of understanding and documenting incidents. Effectively manage incident information and status information to improve product and process.
• Experience with complex Software Systems (communication networks, Internet of Things (IoT), Cloud applications, Mobile applications, Desktop applications, etc.).
• Knowledge of Networking and Network troubleshooting.
• Understand how to break down systems and debugging to find root cause.
• Excellent knowledge of QA methodology and Software development processes (Agile Scrum, RUP, IEEE, Safe, SDL, etc.).
• Knowledge of Software Qualimetry.
• Ability to manage a network, leading operational transformations, across a worldwide organization.
• Strong ability to work in fast-paced environment and ability to multitask with ease is essential to the success of this position.
• Strong communication with the ability to effectively collaborate with cross-functional teams and to promote effective teamwork.
• Ability to inspire and motivate, strong leadership and organizational skills.
• Passionate for continuous learning and improvement, seeking opportunities to expand his/her knowledge and skills.
• Having a customer-centric mindset and focusing on delivering value to end-users in a pragmatic way.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to analyze complex systems and identify areas for improvement.
• Curious, open minded, persistent, rigorous, and pragmatic.
• Use expertise and knowledge to influence others across the organization and drive deployment of SW Quality and Quality initiatives.
• Build strong relationships within CS& Q, but also with cross-functional partners.

What's in it for you:

• Hybrid working model (WFH or Office) & flexible working hours
• 24+ days of annual leave
• International team with the possibility for training & upskilling
• Gym & sports activities
• Learning & Development for each employee (including internal platforms & additional budget)
• Having a chance to be mentored by any worldwide expert inside Schneider Electric
• The financial, legal, and psychological assistance program
• Private health insurance
• Summer recharge program during July and August
• Lunch inside our Hub with discounts
• Family policy - Parental leave and Care leave
• Recognition culture through our own StepUp platform & annual bonus
• Building a career in the #1 world sustainable multinational company

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