Manager/Architect – Quality Engineering, Vacancies At CAKE Engineering, Colombo, Sri Lanka.

At CAKE we are developing an end-to-end technology platform for restaurants and retail outlets. With a Silicon Valley mindset backed by decades of experience in the restaurant, retail and foodservice space, we are disrupting the way that businesses run and connect with their customers through innovation.

As a Mad Mobile company, we have forged partnerships with Apple, Salesforce, Oracle and many other tech leaders that help us expand the capabilities of our platform to serve our customers better and seek out new markets.

We are currently on the lookout for a talented Architect – Quality Engineering with an innovative mind seen and a drive to build the future of the retail and restaurant industry.t.

The Role:

• Provide technical quality engineering leadership & expertise to multiple engineering teams.
• Play a key role in evangelizing a full-stack quality engineering philosophy within the organization, uplifting standards in test automation, performance engineering, security testing and overall testing processes.
• Responsible for selection of test strategy for projects and providing guidance and recommendations to teams on achieving the optimum testability (Test Automation, Performance Engineering & Security Testing).
• Provide technical QE direction to Quality Engineers in adherence to coding, quality, functionality, performance, scalability, and on-time delivery standards.
• On a regular basis, ability to review test scenarios and automated test scripts and provide guidance for continuous improvement.
• Stay up to date with emerging trends in quality engineering, while supporting the organization in evaluating suitable strategies and steer feasibility study initiatives.
• Train and mentor Quality Engineers to uplift standards and to bring testing productivity into test strategies.
• Drive tool selection and oversee the development of test infrastructure across projects.
• Work collaboratively with Engineering, Product, Project Management, and UI/UX teams to review on requirements, architecture and designs to ensure comprehensive testability can be achieved.
• Mentor, coach and lead a team of Quality Engineers.

The Profile:

• A Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent qualification and 10+ years of industry experience.
• At least 2 years of experience in playing a similar role and having experience in handling multiple projects, clients in diversified technology spectrums.
• Strong knowledge in quality engineering practices and processes.
• Expert knowledge of agile software testing practices, test design techniques and test reporting.
• Experience working in an Agile and DevOps environment and strong knowledge in software engineering concepts.
• Experience in solving software test automation challenges in a pragmatic approach.
• Experience in building web and mobile test automation frameworks using open-source tools such as Selenium and Appium.
• Experience in testing middle tier and service-oriented architectures using tools such as Rest- Assured or SoapUI.
• Strong knowledge of Java, OOP concepts, coding standards and improving code quality.
• Expertise in performance testing tools such as JMeter.
• Experience in testing large scale enterprise services, or performance / scale / stress tests.
• Experience in working with continuous integration / delivery, build and source control tools such as Jenkins, Maven and GIT.
• Excellent communication, presentation, leadership, and negotiation skills.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Professional certifications such as ISTQB, PMI-ACP or CSM (Certified Scrum Master) would be an added advantage.
• Thirst for learning and regularly updating knowledge