Software QA Lead

Software QA Lead - Kohler Ventures

Work Mode: Hybrid

Location:  Palo Alto, CA or NYC - Hybrid 3 days/week onsite

Opportunity

Kohler Ventures is an independent company wholly owned by Kohler Co., global leader in the manufacture of kitchen and bath products, tile and home interiors, and an international host to award-winning hospitality and world-class golf destinations. Our mission is to build new digital businesses that empower consumers to lead healthier lives. We explore how familiar experiences can be enhanced and innovations developed through the integration of leading-edge technology, science, and design. Come join us as we build a best-in-class global multi-disciplinary team across artificial intelligence, machine learning, design, advanced software and hardware engineering, strategy, venture investments, sales, marketing, and partnerships. Our locations are Palo Alto, CA US, New York City, NY US, Kohler, WI US, Seoul, Korea, and Tel Aviv, Israel.

The SW QA Lead position is an individual contributor SW QA Engineer position with expanded responsibilities. 

In your role as SW QA Lead at Kohler Ventures you will:

• Work directly with the Head of Software, software/hardware engineering team, and product teams.
• Build the forward-looking vision and lead the effort to ensure the entire development lifecycle takes a quality first approach.
• Help deploy and integrate test automation into the CI/CD pipeline.
• Establish testing patterns, best practices, and increase test coverage (in partnership with engineers).
• Conduct technical reviews for new features and identify quality concerns.
• Participate in various scrum meetings to provide input on functional requirements, product designs, schedules, estimates, or potential problems.

Skills/Requirements

• You hold a bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or related field.
• 5+ years of experience as a Software QA Engineer, at least 3 years in mobile.
• Experience with functional, regression, and end-to-end testing.
• Experience with test automation tools/frameworks such as Appium, Espresso or XCUI.
• Experience validating iOS, Android, or embedded firmware for IoT devices.
• Ability to translate business requirements into test plans and develop test automation at all layers of the software stack.
• Minimal travel, both domestically and internationally, is needed.
• Availability to work outside of standard business hours to be able to collaborate with teams and vendors across multiple time zones.
• Experience in development using Python.

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge in software and hardware/firmware and information security for cloud and IoT devices.

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