Chief Quality Systems Engineer

We are looking for a Quality Engineering Manager with experience in software quality in a high-growth company.
You will be a player/coach with a primary focus on driving our quality and automation/technical initiatives.
You will design/track the high business impact quality Metrics and processes to continuously improve product quality for stability, functionality, and performance.
He/She will be a point of contact for Quality Engineering at Apollo.io worldwide and must therefore be comfortable and confident liaising with remote teams and senior leaders.
You will be guiding a high-performing QA team as part of your responsibilities.

Work in partnership with the Sr Quality Engineering Manager to own, develop, implement and maintain comprehensive quality assurance policies within QE/SDET Org and procedures to ensure the quality and reliability of product
Partner with engineering squads to address the defects and guarantee the delivery of top-notch products
Create/Update Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for quality engineering and present them to relevant parties - Take corrective measures if any discrepancies are identified
Collaborate with the Engineering team - The goal is to automate required functional/non-functional/infrastructure features and requires
close collaboration between the Quality Engineering and Development teams to achieve this in every project release
Continuously improve the quality of production systems, participate and drive the RCA (Root Cause Analysis) process/Quality engineering metrics for production issues and guide engineering team to update quality process accordingly and strategy to improve Quality Engineering KPI's

12+ years of experience with 8 years of experience in Quality Engineering with at least 3+ years in a managerial role
~ Experience in concurrently managing high volume or high risk/complex Quality Engineering projects execution
~ Proven ability to drive testing strategy for SaaS companies
~ Report and drive increased test automation coverage in all areas
~ Communicate and coordinate with Development team, Business Analysts, Project Managers, and external stakeholders
~ Excellent understanding of automation testing and frameworks (such as Cypress/Playwright) for functional, Non-functional and at infrastructure level
~ Working knowledge of development languages (Ruby, Typescript, Javascript)
~ Expert knowledge of software testing, quality improvement, quality process, quality assurance methodologies, and best practices.
~ Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related qualifications
~ Modern Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment technologies and techniques.
~ Synthetic Monitoring and Metrics gathering with tools like NewRelic, GCP Logging, Datadog
~ Familiarity with Linux Containers and Virtualisation (Docker)
~ Mentor and guide Quality Engineering team to manage quality and improve process efficiency

Strong problem-solving abilities and technical reasoning.
Ability to work cross-functionally with engineering teams.
Performance benchmarking and capacity planning
Excellent in defining/tracking Quality Engineering KPI's and metrics in automated fashion and keep management up to date about same
Strong interest in learning new and emerging technologies
Knowledge of the challenges faced by software engineers in a modern engineering department.

Contract of employment (Polish UoP via Remote.com) + AKUP 50% tax deductible costs with 70% creativity factor
~100% remote work (we don't have offices and we don't plan to have them) - no hybrid, no forcing people to get back to the offices
~ Global Allianz Insurance and Medical Package covered by Apollo
~300 USD Work From Home Stipend
~4 additional PTO days for Engineering (Rest Days)
~100% remote work and flexible working hours

private medical care
sharing the costs of professional training & courses
remote work opportunities
flexible working time
OUR TECH STACK
~ Ruby/RoR, Python, React.js, Typescript, Redux, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Ansible, Terraform, Grafana, Kibana, Docker, Kubernetes, GCP.

Besides the great compensation package and culture that thrives in openness and excellence, we invest tremendous effort into developing our remote employees' careers.
You'll be a significant part of a lean, remote team, empowered to really own your role as a proactive educator.
We're very collaborative at Apollo, so you'll be able to lean on your teammates, even in adjacent departments, to help you achieve lofty goals.
And, you'll have a whole team remotely by your side to help you do it!

io is the leading go-to-market solution for revenue teams, trusted by over 500,000 companies and millions of users globally, from rapidly growing startups to some of the world's largest enterprises.
Apollo.io provides sales and marketing teams with easy access to verified contact data for over 210 million B2B contacts and 35 million companies worldwide, along with tools to engage and convert these contacts in one unified platform.