Xylem (XYL) is a leading global water technology company committed to developing innovative technology solutions to the world’s water challenges. The Company’s products and services move, treat, analyze, monitor and return water to the environment in public utility, industrial, residential and commercial building services settings. Xylem also provides a leading portfolio of smart metering, network technologies and advanced infrastructure analytics solutions for water, electric and gas utilities. The Company’s more than 16,500 employees bring broad applications expertise with a strong focus on identifying comprehensive, sustainable solutions. Headquartered in Rye Brook, New York with 2017 revenue of $4.7 billion, Xylem does business in more than 150 countries through a number of market-leading product brands.

The name Xylem is derived from classical Greek and is the tissue that transports water in plants, highlighting the engineering efficiency of our water-centric business by linking it with the best water transportation of all – that which occurs in nature. For more information, please visit us at www.xylem.com.

 

Sensus, a Xylem brand, helps a wide range of public service providers – from utilities to cities to industrial complexes and campuses – do more with their infrastructure to improve quality of life in their communities. We enable our customers to reach farther through the application of technology and data-driven insights that deliver efficiency and responsiveness. We partner with them to anticipate and respond to evolving business needs with innovation in sensing and communications technologies, data analytics and services. Learn more at sensus.com and follow @SensusGlobal on Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter.

The Role: Sensus, a Xylem brand, seeks to hire a Senior Manager, System and Solution Testing will manage and lead a team of skilled and experienced test engineers to deliver Sensus products and commitments on time with high quality.  Products include water, gas, and electric meters, Automatic Meter Infrastructure (AMI) smart points, in-home-displays, installation tools, head-end systems, and more. The candidate will also work closely with Product Development, and SW Engineering to insure the delivery of quality products to Sensus customers. If you are excited and passionate to work on state-of-the art technology, we want to hear from you!

We want someone who:

Has demonstrated the ability to build and motivate teams, lead by example for cross-team collaboration with people internal and external to the organization. This test leader must have a proven track record of leadership for continuous cycle-over-cycle product and processes improvements. In particular, analyze software fault data and fix-on-fix rates (Root Cause Analyses; Key Learning’s; Retrospectives) and the development processes to lead and drive very focused quality improvement programs across all aspects of  engineering processes, tools, people, automation, product, etc.   

• Meet all product/release delivery commitments -- on time with World Class Quality
• Lead and drive engineering strategic cycle-over-cycle product realization improvements.
• Lead change management within the test organization
• Strong collaboration and teamwork to seamlessly work into the larger test teams and across    multiple development teams within engineering to assess issues and problems and delopving solutions.
• Ability to plan and manage multiple concurrent projects and proactively anticipate/mitigate risks
• Experience in both waterfall and agile test methodologies
• Proven track record in delivery integrated end to end solutions based on an automation framework to maximize test efficiency.

Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience managing test engineers in hardware, firmware and software validation. 
• BS in Engineering/Computer Science,  PMP or Six Sigma certification a plus
• Emphasis on first line manager skills. 
• Excellent program and project management skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communications and interpersonal skills. 
• Ability to work in a multi-location, team environment.

 Additional Information: 

Physical Demands

(The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.)

• Light lifting (20-25 lbs.), office environment
• Regularly required to sit or stand, reach, bend and move about the facility

 

Work Environment

(The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.)

• Office: Standard office equipment; work usually performed in an office setting free from any disagreeable elements.
  • Standard weekly job hours: 40 hours

 

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