Test Engineering Manager

Test Engineering Manager – Loveland, CO or Remote, US

At Nutrien, our Purpose is to grow our world from the ground up and we do so with safety and integrity as our core values. Nothing is more important than sending our people home safe, every day.

Nutrien Ag Solutions is the retail division of Nutrien™, the largest crop inputs company in the world. As part of our collective mission of Feeding the Future, Nutrien Ag Solutions provides full-acre solutions through our trusted crop consultants at more than 2,000 locations in North America, South America, Europe and Australia. For more than 150 years, we have been helping growers achieve the highest yields with a wide selection of products, including our proprietary brands: Loveland Products, Inc.; Proven®Seed and Dyna-Gro®Seed; as well as financial, custom application and precision ag services.

We harvest the best. Diverse views and experience make us strong. We look for people who have a safety-first mindset, who are collaborative team players, who deliver on their commitments, who are innovators in search of a better way, and who believe in inclusion.

Working at Nutrien Ag Solutions will provide you an opportunity to help us Feed the Future, and grow your career.

The Test Engineering Manager is a customer-focused and results-oriented role that will oversee the Test Engineering team, responsible for validating functionality for Nutrien’s digital platform. They will provide direct and ongoing leadership, participate in strategic roadmap development, mentor and provide career guidance to direct reports, cultivate a positive culture, and deliver customer value by meeting release milestones.

The Test Engineering Manager will collaborate across organizational boundaries partnering with Product Management, User Experience and Research, Architecture, and Regional Adoption Leads. Collectively, these partners are jointly responsible for strategic planning and guiding the development and implementation of the Digital Hub. Additionally, this role collaborates with Customer Support, Release Management, and Cloud Engineering to coordinate feedback, bug triage, release viability and infrastructure efforts as needed.

The right candidate will have experience driving software testing recommendations, implementing test solutions, creating process improvements and resources throughout the organization, and being actively engaged in the development process.

What you will do:

• Lead a team of test engineers while helping to create a culture of high performance using Digital Guiding Principles
• Deliver exceptional software testing and test results by mentoring team leads, and individual contributors, on Quality Assurance and software testing best practices
• Partner with Product Management, UX Development, Cloud Engineering, Architecture and other business stakeholders to deliver testing tied to product roadmaps and release schedules
• Identify and communicate test project status, defined metrics, software risks, and release defect trends within squads. Work with others to help triage, escalate, prioritize or resolve issues
• Oversee implementation of metrics measurement and report on metrics KPIs to executive key team members
• Develop strong relationships with business and technology stakeholders
• Champion Agile methodologies including the Scrum framework
• Leverage Agile practices to create repeatable and predictable software releases
• Ensures test engineering participation in all scrum rituals including stand ups, sprint planning, refinement, and retrospectives
• Oversee programs and solutions that build software testing process improvements
• Provide people ownership for team members, including hiring, setting and monitoring of annual performance plans, coaching, motivating, rewarding, and career development
• Advance the development of engineering standards, employee onboarding guides, product documentation, and engineering documentation
• Proactively identify opportunities for process improvement and cost reductions. Care for test engineering tools licenses and subscriptions
• Care for headcount, deliverables, schedules, and costs for multiple ongoing projects, ensuring that resources are appropriately allocated, and that goals, objectives, timelines, and budgets are met in accordance with organizational roadmaps
• Scale teams that mix veteran team members eager for new challenges and new team members looking to grow their skill sets
• Care for relationships with strategic partners and suppliers, including setting expectations regarding deliverables, product quality, schedules, and costs. Ensure that team members are effectively communicating and collaborating with these third-party resources

What you will bring:

• Bachelor’s Degree required, preferably in Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field; experience may be considered in lieu of a degree
• 10 years of related experience required, preferably in Quality Assurance and Test Development with an emphasis on managing Test Projects
• 1 year in a stakeholder role required; 5 years preferred; experience leading teams of 12 members conducting software development preferred
• Experience working on projects that span multiple business units, serving multiple stakeholders
• Scrum or other Agile framework experience including guiding Scrum teams, familiarity with scrum ceremonies and use of scrum artifacts to plan and predict software deliveries – Scrum Master Certification is a plus
• Senior-level experience in functional, regression, system, boundary, data integrity, exploratory, performance, API, compatibility, usability, reliability, portability, security, & UI validation testing
• Experience in manual and automated testing with a focus on test-oriented development resources and methodologies: TDD or BDD, API validation, JavaScript validation, code repository management (GitHub), test case management systems (Zephyr Squad), data testing tools, & Jira
• Applied Critical Thinking; able to discern best processes devising solutions for effective testing with limited timeframes
• Savvy knowledge of QA methodologies, QA best practices, & software development processes
• Familiarity with one or more of the following: React Native, Node.js, CSS, Python, REST APIs, JavaScript, TypeScript, BrowserStack. Experience with microservice architecture, BDD and CI/CD pipelines

Compensation & Benefits:

Salary Range: $114,400-$157,300. This range is estimated for the Manager, Test Engineering position in Loveland, Colorado. Actual salary and benefits may differ based upon location.

We provide an attractive benefits package that includes comprehensive medical, dental, vision coverage, and life insurance and well as disability coverage for positions working more than 30 hours per week. In addition, we have a retirement program that encourages our employees to save for the longer term, with generous matching employer contributions. Our benefit package also demonstrates our culture of care with paid vacation, sick days and holidays as well as paid personal and maternity/parental leaves and an Employee and Family Assistance Program. Details of the benefits package will be shared in the application process.

In addition to base pay, this role is also eligible to participate in our annual incentive plan, consistent with the terms of our plan, which provide discretionary award opportunities reflecting components such as performance of the company and the employee. Details will be discussed through the application process.

This information is provided in compliance with the Colorado Equal Pay for Equal Work Act and is the company's good faith and reasonable estimate of the compensation range and benefits offered for this position. The compensation offered to the successful applicant may vary based on factors including experience, skills, education, location, and other job-related reasons. Nutrien also makes internal equity a consideration in all pay decisions.

Are you a good match? Apply today!

Nutrien Ag Solutions is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to creating an inclusive workplace. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics.

This job will remain posted until filled. In accordance with Nutrien policies, you will be required to undergo a background check, and may be required to undergo a substance test. Being fully vaccinated against COVID-19 is a condition of employment and that proof of vaccination will be required, with minimal exceptions, unless prohibited by applicable law. While we appreciate all applications we receive, only candidates under consideration will be contacted.

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