Executive Manager

Overview

The Manager, Software QA Engineering will play a pivotal role in software development activities and long-term initiative planning and collaboration across the Strategy & Transformation (S&T) organization. Software Engineering is the cornerstone of scalable digital transformation across PepsiCo’s value chain. This leader will deliver the end-to-end software development experience, deliver high quality software as part of the DevOps process, and have accountability for our business operations.

The leader in this role will provide technical oversight and direction to our software development team to ensure we deliver the best possible software solutions and ensure they are generating value through cost savings or incremental value. This leader will work closely with the user experience, product, IT, and process engineering teams to develop new products and prioritize delivering solutions across S&T core priorities.

Responsibilities

• Support the vision and guide a team of engineers to build and support digital products and services (DPS) across S&T core priorities
• Drive partnerships with User Experience, Product Management, IT, Data & Analytics, Emerging Tech, Innovation, and Process Engineering teams to deliver the Digital Products portfolio
• Develop software development and testing strategy utilizing industry standards. Create roadmap and timing of implementation of the roadmap based on business requirements and strategy.
• Lead multi-discipline, high-performance work teams distributed across remote locations effectively. Build, manage, develop, and mentor a team of engineers.
• Interact with executives across the company to lead the narrative around software engineering
• Develop and expand DPS capabilities through a customer obsessed, service-driven digital solutions platform that leverages data and AI to deliver automated and personalized experiences
• Manage and appropriately escalate delivery impediments, risks, issues, and changes tied to the engineering initiatives to the stakeholders
• Interact with key business partners to recommend solutions that best meet the strategic needs of the business
  
  

Qualifications

• A Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field
• Master’s or PhD in Computer Science or Engineering preferred
• Minimum of 9+ years of relevant testing experience
• Minimum 1+ years’ experience in managing QA engineers
• Commanding knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented design
• Working knowledge of programming languages - One or more of Java / Python, for writing Automation Scripts
• Working knowledge of automation testing frameworks, tools & services like Selenium, Appium, JUnit, Cucumber, LoadRunner
• Functional and Non-Functional end-to-end Testing Strategies including Load Testing, Performance Testing, Reliability Testing, Scaled Testing, Managed Pre-Production Testing
• Experience with Azure (preferred), Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services and cloud specific PaaS and SaaS solutions
• Experience with mission critical, 24x7 systems
• Experience with high throughput cloud native distributed systems
• Experience in testing and consuming large-scale web services
• Demonstrate expertise in black box and grey box testing methodologies, experience with standard QA and development tools