O.C. Tanner

O.C. Tanner

Manager, Software Test Engineering

USA - Utah-Salt Lake City-Headquarters

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 9 days ago
PythonJavaRubyDistributed SystemsAWSDockerKubernetesCI/CDKafkaCybersecurityStakeholder ManagementProcess ImprovementSeleniumPlaywrightpytestLoad TestingTest AutomationLeadershipCommunicationCollaboration

About the role

  • O.C. Tanner is the global leader in software and services that improve workplace culture through meaningful employee experiences.
  • Join us as we help people all over the world thrive at work.

Responsibilities

  • Lead, mentor, and develop a team of Software Test Engineers, fostering a culture of quality, accountability, and continuous improvement.
  • Partner with Engineering, Product, and Support leaders to embed quality throughout the software development lifecycle.
  • Establish testing standards, quality gates, and best practices that enable teams to deliver reliable software with confidence.
  • Define and track quality metrics to identify risks, drive continuous improvement, and measure outcomes.
  • Drive cross-team alignment by reducing duplicated effort, improving testing efficiency, and increasing visibility into quality initiatives.
  • Collaborate with global engineering teams to establish consistent testing practices and support a follow-the-sun delivery model.
  • Proven success in developing and scaling quality engineering and testing automation strategies for complex software platforms.
  • Experience building engineering roadmaps, defining team objectives, and aligning quality investments with business priorities.
  • Demonstrated ability to coach engineers, drive technical decisions, and lead organizational change.

Requirements

  • Hands-on experience with modern test automation frameworks such as Playwright, Selenium, PyTest, or similar technologies.
  • Experience testing web applications, APIs, distributed systems, and cloud-native applications.
  • Experience integrating automated testing into CI/CD pipelines and modern software delivery workflows.
  • Experience leading production issue investigation and triage, using defect and incident data to improve quality and reduce recurrence.
  • Strong understanding of automation, performance testing, risk-based testing, and release validation practices.
  • Excellent communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence across teams.

Nice to have

  • Experience leading distributed or global quality engineering teams.
  • Experience with AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, and cloud-native architectures.
  • Experience testing event-driven systems using Kafka or similar technologies.
  • Familiarity with application security testing and OWASP Top 10 principles.
  • Proficiency in Python, Java, Ruby, or similar programming languages.
  • Experience with software reliability practices, including production readiness reviews, observability, incident analysis, SLOs, and continuous quality improvement.
  • Experience with performance, load, stress, and scalability testing methodologies.

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