Job Description

POSITION SUMMARY:

Guardant Health is looking for an energetic and passionate manager to lead its Portal platform Quality Engineering team. Portal platform team develops and supports the online platform, which provides seamless customer experience for the physicians to place orders for Guardant’s cancer diagnostic tests and for physicians/patients to review their reports.

An Ideal candidate would have experience in leading software quality team in a regulated environment with thorough knowledge of Quality Engineering best practices and technical expertise to guide the team in delivering software products meeting the business needs in an efficient and fast paced environment. This role requires someone to be self-directed, autonomous, empowered, with coaching and critical thinking ability.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

•  Hire, train, coach, mentor and develop high-performing, geographically distributed team of software quality engineers in an Agile SDLC environment.
•  Build and promote quality driven culture in delivering amazing customer experience for Guardant Health’s Portal platform for ordering and report review based on N Tier architecture and microservices and cloud-based API integration platforms.
• Co-define system integration test strategy with cross functional work streams featuring rich, complex business logic-oriented customer usage patterns.
• Provide accurate planning, effort and resource estimates, and milestones for testing to ensure successful implementation in a timely fashion.
• Effectively lead resource allocation based on project priorities and engage in trade-off negotiations to safeguard the team.
• Identify cross-platform software quality challenges and devise innovative solutions for refinement and improvement of quality deliverables.
• Establish cross-functional relationships across business and technical leads, architects, and product owners to ensure alignment with business goals and enterprise-level architectural standards.
• Apply QE standards, best practices, and principles to develop quality plans that deliver optimal outcomes across multiple products.
• Define and guide automation team in terms of adding value to the process with increased speed of delivery without compromising Quality.
• Provide technical competency for selection of tools, approaches, and strategies to challenge the status quo and ensure perpetual quality improvement.
• Collaborate with DevOps team to define environmental needs for functional, integration and pre-production phases leading to successful delivery of monthly and adhoc releases.
• Deliver test documentation to support software development for medical devices in compliance with FDA, CE mark, IEC 62304, PMDA and ISO 13485 standards.

Qualifications

As a Manager, Software Quality Engineering you are adept at understanding system architecture, design, implementation to succinctly develop tailored test strategy and deliver quality software products meeting regulatory standards. You have the aptitude to work on parallel projects with overlapping schedules, quickly learn new technologies, demonstrate teamwork and technical leadership. You seek feedback and integrate it in a professional manner. In addition, you bring:

• B.S or higher degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Bioinformatics, or a related study or equivalent project experience.
• 6+ years of leading software quality engineering team, in a globally distributed environment preferably in healthcare, pharma or regulated environments.
• 7+ years of hands-on testing experience in Java based applications delivering Portal technologies for customers based on Service Oriented Architecture in a Cloud/Hybrid environments with API led integrations.
• 4+ years of experience in testing localized micro service-based portal applications/modules in a hybrid environment leveraging HL7/XML/JSON message formats for integrations.
• 4+ years of experience testing responsive design portal applications in multiple languages.
• 2+ years of mobile applications (Android and iOS) testing for customer centric applications.
• Designed test automation to support CI/CD pipeline for software delivery.
• Experience working with Onsite/Offshore models and understanding of its challenges and complexities.
• Proven ability to adapt to new technologies and design test strategies.
• Extensive experience in good testing practices, methodologies, and automated tools.
• Excellent communication and analytical skills, including strong ability to identify and solve ambiguous cross-functional software quality related problems.

Additional Information

Employee may be required to lift routine office supplies and use office equipment.  Majority of the work is performed in a desk/office environment; however, there may be exposure to high noise levels, fumes, and biohazard material in the laboratory environment.  Ability to sit for extended periods of time.

Guardant Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

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