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My Experience as a Quality Engineering Manager — 5 takeaways that may give you an edge in 2021.
As with anything we’ll need a bit of context: I am a graduate of what I have found to be two complementary fields of study, Business Administration and Computer Science. I have nearly 7 years of experience in Software development, the most recent of which I spent as a Quality Engineering Manager with Director level responsibilities on several industry-leading projects of immense scale and complexity. I have built and managed internationally distributed teams and in the course of my work I have been deeply involved in all manner of the Software Development Life Cycle.
So how did a computer science grad end up specializing in Quality Engineering and automation? Well, very early in my career I became acutely aware of a general lack of representation and technical leadership with regard to quality; my first team, like many teams, struggled to predictably release high-quality software in alignment with our product roadmap. At that time we lacked Engineering resources capable of solving this very basic problem — I had found a niche, an under-trained and underserved need that I was able to capitalize on and my discovery allowed me to pivot, and ascend in my career quickly, gaining valuable insights along the way.
