Test Automation Lead

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You will be based at Electrolux HQ in Stockholm at Kungsholmen. Our Headquarters in Stockholm is an amazing and unique place to work and grow! Over 1000 professional and 75+ nationalities shape living for the better every day.
As a Test Automation Lead you are passionate about testing practices that will join a fully empowered, autonomous and cross-functional team called Bug Busters that defines strategy and tests continuously our application stack manually and through test automation. You will work with multiple development teams that deliver product increments using agile methodologies in sprints in a fast-paced, highly collaborative environment.
In this role you will consult with Project Managers, Solutions Leads, Scrum Masters, and Product Owners among other stakeholders to re-shape the way we approach test in our program to lead high quality deliverables to our internal as well external users.
You will be based in our Stockholm office, however you will work with colleagues remotely that are based in other countries. Occasional travel within Europe is anticipated.
As we are accelerating the rollout of your landscape through Europe in a 3,5 years plan, now is the perfect time for you to join Electrolux IT Consumer & Customer service solutions team. Here you are given the autonomy to solve complex problems, advance your skills, deliver next-generation intelligent solutions and all of this having fun and interacting with a high performance team.
Your main tasks:
· Drive transformation in our testing practices by implementing innovative concepts such as SAFe Built-In Quality (BDD, TDD and Think Test-First)
· Define test execution strategy for both agile and waterfall teams in a hybrid cloud environment, with both on-premise and cloud-based solutions
· Take full ownership of our manual and automated test execution phases to ensure successful outcomes by prioritizing quality and protecting timeline
· Continuously optimize our test automation architecture and tools, targeting to increase automation coverage and reduce lead time of execution cycle
· Act as a coach for multiple teams of test leads and test engineers allocated to different initiatives.
· Support our Solution Delivery Leads and RTEs and prioritize the right testing activities based on program roadmap
· Manage cross-team dependencies and resource allocation for test execution.
· Anticipate and mitigate risks/blockers related to manual and automated test execution
· Communicate and influence decisions by sharing risk/alternatives at the program forums for a collaborative decision making (Steering Committees, Scrum of Scrums, etc).
Qualifications:
· Experience driving test strategy in both agile and waterfall environments.
· Being self-sufficient in a very complex environment with ambiguity and multiple scrum teams
· Positive interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to influence individuals and teams rather than dictate.
· Solution oriented and experience driving end-to-end test automation.
· To be able to perform extensive long term planning and own the test automation strategy and roadmap
· To be resilient (can do and never give up mindset); fail, learn and adapt fast
· Preferable proven exposure to a Scale Agile environment
· Experience as a Tester and coding skills is a plus.
This is what Juliano Tripodi, our Agile Delivery Lead says:
"If you have a growth mindset, want to make your mark and challenge the status quo, this is your chance. Testing is on the critical path to perform successful consumer facing releases, so boring is not a word used here. We need people who are eager to learn new things, take the full ownership of deliverables, is able to extensively plan in a fast-paced environment as well as take the driver seat in their career."
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Electrolux is a leading global appliance company that has shaped living for the better for more than 100 years. We reinvent taste, care and wellbeing experiences for millions of people, always striving to be at the forefront of sustainability in society through our solutions and operations. Under our brands, including Electrolux, AEG and Frigidaire, we sell approximately 60 million household products in approximately 120 markets every year. In 2020 Electrolux had sales of SEK 116 billion and employed 48,000 people around the world. For more information go to www.electroluxgroup.com.