Cloud & DevOps - DevOps Platform Quality & Testing Team Lead

Cloud & DevOps - DevOps Platform Quality & Testing Team Lead 

We are thrilled to announce an exciting career opportunity for a results-driven professional to join our team as a Team Lead within our Cloud and DevOps Services area at Richemont. As a key player in this role, you will be the primary technical lead on all testing functional capabilities in our DevOps Platform stack. 

If you possess strong communication skills, adaptability, and the ability to bridge business and engineering and are passionate about managing costs and agile methodologies, we welcome you to lead one of our teams to success. 

Role and Responsibilities 

As the Team Lead for the Quality and Testing team, you will steer a team of skilled Cloud and DevOps Engineers, ensuring their continuous professional development. Your expertise in processes, tools, and technology will be fundamental to the team's growth, enabling you to guide them towards implementing best practices and timely project delivery to stakeholders' satisfaction. As a leader, you'll foster a culture of collaboration, accountability, and innovation while maintaining productive relationships with internal and external stakeholders. 

Your Responsibilities will include: 

• Taking a leading delivery role in customer and client engagements, serving as our primary point of contact for quality and testing products. You will be expected to understand their business needs, challenges, and objectives and participate in pre-sales solutions activities. 

• Collaborate closely with our clients and Deployment Services to ensure the delivery of our existing services that align with their requirements, all while effectively managing costs. 

• Leading a team of skilled engineers and guiding them in delivering efficient quality and testing capabilities transversally under our product and service catalog. 

• Thinking fast and adapting to rapidly changing client needs, ensuring our services remain relevant to their evolving goals, and making the most of agile methodologies. 

• Bridging the gap between client business needs and technical requirements, developing strategies that address both. 

• Contributing to creating and offering the best Cloud and DevOps Services (people, process, and technology) for our customers 

• Maintaining a client-centric focus, ensuring a high level of satisfaction and success with our products. 

• Developing and implementing testing strategies, plans, and procedures. 

• Defining testing standards and ensuring adherence to best practices 

• Conducting functional, regression, performance, and user acceptance testing. 

• Continuously improving testing processes and methodologies. 

• Staying updated with industry trends and advancements in testing and quality products and capabilities. 

Required Qualifications and Skills: 

• Demonstrable experience in leading engineering teams, with the ability to inspire, mentor, and guide a team of engineers. 

• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to adapt quickly to changing situations. 

• Significant business acumen, enabling you to connect business goals with engineering solutions while being mindful of cost management. 

• Exceptional communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to build strong client relationships. 

• Proficiency in modern cloud architecture paradigms (e.g., microservices, serverless) and all aspects of DevOps (from methodological aspects of DevOps to technical elements such as CI/CD, containerization, and automation). 

• Experience with test automation tools like Tosca, Selenium, JUnit, or similar. 

• Proven experience working with Cloud and DevOps delivery initiatives and related cloud technologies & methodologies (agile). 

• Proficiency in English and French is a plus. 

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (Master's degree preferred). 

• Five years of experience in software testing and quality assurance, with at least three years in a leadership or management role, including expertise in roadmap product definition, timesheet management, and agile methodology. 

• Strong understanding of testing methodologies, tools, and techniques, with hands-on experience in test automation. 

• Proficiency in using agile project management tools such as Jira, Trello, or similar. - Knowledge of programming languages (e.g., Java, Python) and scripting languages for test automation. 

Why Join Us: 

• Join a leading organization at the forefront of Cloud & DevOps Services, significantly impacting our clients. 

• Collaborate with highly skilled professionals in an inclusive and innovative work environment, leveraging agile methodologies. 

• Lead a team of dedicated engineers and contribute to their professional growth. 

• Opportunities for career advancement and continuous learning. 

If you possess strategic thinking skills, are a dynamic leader, have expertise in bridging business and technology, and are passionate about agile methodologies and cost management, we invite you to apply for the Cloud & DevOps Quality and Testing Team Lead position at Richemont. You will have the opportunity to shape the future of Cloud & DevOps Services and serve as the catalyst for our client's success. 

To apply, please submit your resume and a cover letter highlighting your relevant experience to “Email Address”. 

Thank you for considering this exciting opportunity at Richemont. We look forward to welcoming you to our team.