Senior Manager, Software Testing/ QA (SDK Team)

Worker Sub-Type:

Regular

 Job Description: 

 Come join us as we deliver ‘Intelligent Security. Everywhere.’

At BlackBerry, we secure enterprise information and applications on today’s most popular mobile devices and platforms—such as iPhone, iPad, and Android—protecting both company and personal data. An exceptional user experience enhances productivity, whenever and wherever people want or need access. Mobile security is on fire. So are we. Join us!

In return for your talent and enthusiasm, we will provide you with an attractive compensation, bonus & wonderful benefits package. You will also have the opportunity to thrive in a dynamic environment, working alongside outstanding colleagues, developing an industry leading unified endpoint management & cybersecurity portfolio.

In short, you bring the talent, and we provide the environment, tools, and resources for you to succeed, and accelerate your professional growth & development

Are you the person we are looking for?

Are you passionate about quality and have a bias for speed? Do you believe in challenging sprints, user stories, continuous integration, regression testing, and traceability matrixes? Do you have a natural curiosity for how things work and what it will take to break them? Do you intuitively understand the complexities software product development and can you articulate how the process and pieces all come together? If you answered yes to these questions please read on.

You will:

• Oversee SDK and component testing
• Manage a team of experienced QA engineers
• Own the quality process and initiatives for the products that are derived.
• Actively participate in all aspects of the software quality, testing, and release process design and implementation.
• Analyze test results to identify issues in the software and work with team members to resolve them.
• Understand existing testing and automation systems and work with them to take advantage of latest techniques and technologies.

You will need to bring:

• Previous team lead/ people management experience
• Strong problem solving, analytical, trouble-shooting and organizational skills.
• Excellent communication skills. Excellent command of written and spoken English, especially when it comes to taking technically complex concepts, and translating these into written form that even non-technical individuals can understand.
• Ability to work independently, as well as in a team environment
• A passion for user-focused design & high quality technology
• Familiarity with the agile methodology and continuous integration (i.e. nightly built and release).
• A passion for user-focused design & high quality technology

Technical Skills

• Proficiency with Enterprise grade Secure Browser on mobile devices
• iOS experience is mandatory for this role
• Experience of testing SSL websites, Certificates and authentication protocols - NTLM and Kerberos.
• Experience in Web server set up and deploying web pages with various authentication schemes.
• Proficiency with one or more of the following: Cocoa, Java, JavaScript, C, C++, Objective-C, C#, iOS SDK, Android SDK, other mobile SDKs
• Experience with writing, deploying, and troubleshoot Pearl or Python scripts
• Experience with Automation Framework and deploying automation test runs
• Experience with writing automation test cases and debugging test cases (Java)
• Experience testing highly scalable enterprise client-server software.
• Experience with blackbox, integration, regression and end-to-end testing.
• Experience with Test Case Management Tools including ApTest Manager.
• Experience with Defect Tracking Tools including JIRA

It would be great if you could bring some of the following:

• Knowledge about troubleshooting tools such as Wireshark, fiddler
• Understanding of key protocols such as Http, https, TCP/IP, telnet, UDP, SMTP etc.
• Proficient in White-Box and Black-Box testing techniques
• Experience in one of the following platforms: iOS, Android, Mac OS X. Multiple platforms
• Comprehensive analysis of technical issues, such as:
• System performance analysis
  • Design for Testability
  • Root-cause analysis of issues regardless of source (hardware, system, or software)
  • Be able to perform log analysis to get root cause of customer issues

Interested in hearing more? Then we would love to hear from you!

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Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40