Quality Engineering Director

Department:
Technology

Location:
Sydney (Australia)

Description
Nuix creates innovative software that empowers organisations to simply and quickly find the truth from any data in a digital world. We are a passionate and talented team, delighting our customers with software that transforms data into actionable intelligence.

We collaborate to provide innovative solutions for more than 2,000 customers in over 75 countries. Our customers include many of the world's top financial institutions, corporations and government departments, all major global regulatory agencies, leading security and law enforcement agencies, and all tier-one advisory firms and litigation support vendors.

We offer a truly unique place to work, with passionate people who believe in our vision and mission, and exciting opportunities for those who seek them. Are you ready to be part of a global team that is changing how eDiscovery, information governance, forensic and electronic investigations are being conducted around the world?

Key Responsibilities

• This role provides direction and leadership to the Quality Engineering ("QE") team of over 20 Software Development Engineers in Test (SDET) and Quality Engineering Managers. The team delivers all software testing globally across Nuix, including:

• System Test (ST)

• System Integration Testing (SIT)

• Performance and Non-Functional Testing

• Test Automation

• Test Data Management

• End-to-End Solution Testing

• The role is accountable to drive a culture of continuous improvement in testing practices that supports Nuix' software development practices and philosophy of "always releasable" software, which includes high levels of automation and use of modern and efficient test tools, frameworks and practices

• The group is accountable for enabling scrum teams to deliver high quality software at pace leveraging efficient agile principles, comprehensive testing methodology and automation

• Continual review and revision of quality engineering KPIs to ensure teams and processes are highly effective

• Execute the quality engineering strategy and roadmap that uplifts the technical capability across Nuix

• Manage the relationship with the quality engineering teams (vendors and Nuix staff) across all locations where Nuix engineering staff are based

• Responsible for establishing, managing and maintaining vendor partnerships. This includes fostering strong working relationships at all levels (account management through to engineers), that contracted scope and strategic goals are met, and identifying opportunities to leverage the breadth and depth of partner capabilities.

• Make informed commercial decisions that meet organisational quality engineering needs

• Ensure that the quality engineering brand characterises the Nuix core values, and build advocacy with internal teams, driving a positive and measurable change for the benefit of Nuix customers

• This is a flexible working opportunity, however due to the leadership nature and need to interface with vendors, this role will be based in Sydney and require working from the office for a minimum of 3 days per week

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

• 7+ years managing Quality Engineering teams with proven experience in testing best practices, testing frameworks, test data management and continuous integration practices.

• Seasoned leader with experience in managing and developing quality engineering teams within a technology organisation

• Highly experienced in working with and managing vendor partners

• Highly experienced in working with and managing offshore teams

• Familiarity with agile development and continuous integration practices

• Strong knowledge in testing best practices, test automation tools (e.g. Selenium, Playwright, Cypress) and testing frameworks

• Knowledge of cloud technologies, preferably AWS

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills to effectively collaborate with functional teams both inside and outside of the Software Engineering organization, including Product Management, Program Management, Sales Consulting and Product Support

• Ability to balance technical and leadership responsibilities effectively.

• Passionate about leadership, collaboration and innovation.

• Encourage and promote diversity in the team, and act as a role model to enable, engage and motivate the team to perform at their highest level

• Coach and develop your leadership team to succeed in all aspects of their role

Our Vision
Finding Truth in a Digital World
Our Mission
Nuix creates innovative software that empowers organizations to simply and quickly find the truth from any data in a digital world. We are a passionate and talented team, delighting our customers with software that transforms data into actionable intelligence.