AddressThe Digital Evolution is critical to driving PepsiCo s ambitions around being FASTER, STRONGER, and BETTER
- Under the Strategy & Transformation (S&T) organization, t he Digital Products & Services team designs, builds, and stands up digital solutions across the value chain, that are embedded into business processes to optimize efficiency, reduce costs, and maintain high ROI
- Guided by PEPSICO s global priorities, the Digital Products & Services team create user-centric digital products that can be scaled globally by leveraging the leading technologies, advanced analytics algorithms and latest user research
Software QA Manager (India Designation: Deputy Director)
Location: Hyderabad
The Software QA manager will play a pivotal role in software development activities and long-term initiative planning and collaboration across the Strategy & Transformation (S&T) organization
- Software Engineering is the corner stone of scalable digital transformation across PepsiCo s value chain
- This leader will deliver the end-to-end software development experience, deliver high quality software as part of the DevOps process, and have accountability for our business operations
- The leader in this role will provide technical oversight and direction to our software development team to ensure we deliver the best possible software solutions and ensure they are generating value through cost savings or incremental value
- This leader will work closely with the user experience, product, IT, and process engineering teams to develop new products and prioritize deliver solutions across S&T core priorities
Want to explore a day in the life of a PepsiCo Software Engineer
Responsibilities
- Support the vision and guide a team of engineers to build and support digital products and services (DPS) across S&T core priorities
- Drive partnerships with User Experience, Product Management, IT, Data & Analytics, Emerging Tech, Innovation, and Process Engineering teams to deliver the Digital Products portfolio
- Develop software development and testing strategy utilizing industry standards. Create roadmap and timing of implementation of the roadmap based on business requirements and strategy.
- Day-to-day leadership, management & support of Testing projects, oversee implementation, supporting infrastructure, and ongoing maintenance of the test suite.
- Act as a QA sign-off for Release Committee to validate test coverage, execution, results and general quality standards of the Platform.
- Develops reporting metrics and KPIs to measure the performance, quality and on-time delivery of the Software Test team; works with Test Managers to maintain dashboard metrics; produces monthly software test performance reports for executive leadership.
- Responsible for Testing sign off for releases, working closely with the Test Leads and Build Managers
- Take ownership of the test estimation Process and deliver estimates as per the defined SDLC.
- Ownership of overarching Delivery Test strategies and Test Approach for project.
- Ensuring QA/Testing Process and Procedures are followed across each project and team.
- Lead multi-discipline, high-performance work teams distributed across remote locations effectively. Build, manage, develop, and mentor a team of engineers.
- Interact with executives across the company to lead the narrative around Software Engineering
- Develop and expand DPS capabilities through a customer obsessed, services-driven digital solutions platform that leverages data and AI to deliver automated and personalized experiences
- Manage and appropriately escalate delivery impediments, risks, issues, and changes tied to the engineering initiatives to the stakeholders
- Interact with key business partners to recommend solutions that best meet the strategic needs of the business
Qualifications
- A Bachelor s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field
- Master s or PhD in Computer Science or Engineering preferred
- Minimum of 11 years of relevant software development and or testing experience
- 3+ years experience managing automation test engineer
- Expert in API Automation testing and exposure to REST API framework , Automation experience using any of the tools - Postman, Rest assured will be effective for the role.
- Strong Experience in Integration testing (SIT) and ability to understand the system/Data Flow architecture and guide the team to build effective test scenarios.
- Experience with Automation frameworks like TestNG, Robot, tools like Selenium.
- Good understanding on SOLID design Principles and Performance testing principles.
- Working knowledge of programming languages beyond C#, Java, C or C++ (e.g., Ruby, Python, Perl)
- Strong QA and Automation experience as part of career progression.
- Commanding knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented design
- Expert in implementing and optimizing agile development and continuous integration / continuous delivery methodologies
- Experience with Azure, Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services and cloud specific PaaS and SaaS solutions
- Experience with mission critical, 24x7 systems
- Experience with high throughput cloud native distributed systems
- Experience in testing and consuming large-scale web services
- Demonstrate expertise in black box and grey box testing methodologies, experience with standard QA and development tools
Qualities
- Strong people management skills, with a proven ability to hire and grow talented programmatic and user-level personnel
- Experience leading large initiatives with the ability to course correct as needed
- Inclined to see problems from the point of view of the customer and of our customer base as a whole
- Strong attention to detail and extremely well-organized
- Ability to run a large team of software engineers
- Ability to manage multiple projects with competing priorities
- Ability to be able to interface with the business and recognize their needs and priorities
- Ability to work cross functionally with product, service design and operations across the organization
- Demonstrated passion for excellence with respect to Engineering services, education, and support
- Strong interpersonal skills, ability to navigate through a complex and matrixed internal environment
- Ability to work collaboratively with regional and global partners in other functional units
- Ability to navigate a complex organization and to influence and lead people across cultures at a senior level
Skills: Algorithms, Paas, Agile Development, Integration Testing, development tools, Interpersonal Skills, Operations, TestNG, Postman, Robot, Product, Service Design, Amazon Web Services, Continuous Integration, Multiple Projects, Qa, People Management Skills, Automation Frameworks, Attention To Detail, Selenium, Data Structures, Rest Assured, mission critical , Testing, Google Cloud, Azure, Sit
Experience: 3.00-11.00 Years
