Aura helps customers monitor, manage, and protect against the risks associated with their identities and personal information in a digital world. With adaptive technology, a seasoned team, and a first-of-its-kind product suite, Aura enables customers to manage disparate cybersecurity needs with ease. Backed by premier investors, WndrCo and General Catalyst, Aura's category-defining business is a holistic personal digital security platform that unites best-in-class privacy, identity, and security products.
Trusted by more than 2 million customers, Aura has a team of more than 450 people worldwide and revenues over $200 million. Most importantly, this trajectory continues to show momentum and is supported by strong organic growth in addition to strategic customer acquisition. Aura's leadership team has seen similar success before, having grown a start-up to a valuation of over $3 billion prior to exit. With a clear vision, strong alignment, and strategic M&A execution, Aura has assembled a stellar team and built a unique culture with incredible employees. Join us for the ride!
Our highly skilled, dynamic, and growing engineering organization is looking for a Director of Quality Engineering that is passionate about test automation and QA best practices. You will bring in a strong "quality through automation" mindset and leadership to elevate the quality engineering practices within Aura.
Responsibilities

• Drive the software quality assurance strategy and execution, for Aura's product offerings through automation of the full technology stack - Web, Mobile, API, and other backend interfaces.
• Coordinate and facilitate user acceptance and end to end testing activities between multiple teams towards production releases
• Working closely with product management, engineering, and support stakeholders to ensure test automation and reporting is a repeatable and consistent part of the SDLC/Agile process
• Institutes scalable QA best practices in a fast paced agile environment.
• Establish and communicate insightful and accurate quality and risk metrics to various stakeholders
• Develop a strong understanding of the customer usage of the products and support escalations, to advocate for continuous improvement of quality trends within engineering
• Ready to technically engage in test automation architecture, test, and tooling strategies for UI and backend test case development and implementation
• Hire, retain, mentor, and direct highly skilled Quality Engineering resources to maintain an automation mindset and provide tactical support for product development
• Encourage continuous learning and improvement for engineers and support their career development

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in SaaS quality engineering or related leadership roles with at least 5+years of prior experience as a test automation engineer or architect.
• Experience through the full SDLC (including beta and UX experiments) that exercised quality, metrics, and best practices for release to production.
• Ability to make the right trade offs that deliver a quality experience to customers while mitigating risks for the organization and partners
• Proficiency in developing test strategies, test plans, and organizing test cases.
• Strong experience and familiarity of using web, mobile, and API test automation technologies such as Cypress, Selenium, Appium, XCUITest, Cucumber, Postman, etc.
• Highly resourceful in leveraging JIRA, Confluence and other documentation tools for tracking, reporting, and socializing QA automation activities and goals
• Experience with AWS infrastructure, services, and tools
• Excellent verbal, written, presentation, and interpersonal skills.
• Prior experience with Agile methodologies such as scrum, SaFE, etc.

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