Tableau Software Inc.
Open Position: Director, Test Engineering and QA
Location: Seattle, Washington or Kirkland, Washington
To apply, or see a full listing of our positions, please visit: www.tableausoftware.com/jobs
Tableau Software is one of the fastest growing technology companies in the world, with 100% annual sales growth. Tableau makes fast analytics and visualization products that help people see and understand data of any size or format. The company is on its way to becoming a large, market-defining company in the business intelligence industry and is next in a long line of high profile Stanford spinouts (e.g., Google, Yahoo, VMWare). Customers of all sizes use our products, from Fortune 500 companies, to video game designers, to scientists in the jungles of Central America, to high school principals. Our software is for anyone with data and questions! Additionally, Tableau's web products (http://TableauPublic.com) are used by bloggers, journalists, and major media web sites to share data online as interactive visualizations. Check out our products at: http://www.tableausoftware.com/products/tour.
Tableau's culture is casual yet high energy. We are passionate about our product and loyal to each other and our company. We value work/life balance, efficiency, simplicity, freakishly friendly customer service, and making a difference in the world. Tableau offers exceptional professional and financial growth potential.
Director, Test Engineering and QA
As our Director of Test Engineering and QA, you will provide strategic and operational direction for testing and validation of the entire suite of visual analytics products. You should have a track record for building collaborative and high-performing teams with a strong sense of ownership. You should know how to direct and grow teams of strong, effective QA and Test Engineers and you should be excited by the challenge of operating at the fast pace dictated by a high growth software company. You will be expected to collaborate with your peers on strategic plans as well as make tactical decisions to guarantee quality. You will apply your past experience with all aspects of software testing to ensure multiple parallel testing efforts are coordinated in a highly collaborative, efficient and effective manner. You should be inspired and excited by the challenge of developing an innovative approach to testing that supports both packaged and SaaS products shipped at high frequency with high quality expectations and tight deadlines.
Key Tasks and Responsibilities
 Provide strategic vision and leadership for the testing and validation for entire product suite.
 Drive execution of the quality strategy across all teams within Tableau including collaboration with Product Development and Operations.
 Work closely with Product Development and Sustaining Engineering to resolve product issues and determine the best testing strategies for the disparate needs of packaged and hosted software.
 Assign and balance areas of ownership, ensure managers have clear priorities and adequate resources to execute to a high-level.
 Provide executive level reporting of test strategies, product quality, risks, and schedule.
 Continued growth of a world-class test team, recruiting new members and ensuring the teams have the necessary resources and opportunities.
 Provide technical leadership, career development, and mentoring to team managers and other team members as appropriate.
 Create and foster an environment conducive to collaboration, innovation, simplicity, high productivity, and high quality.
 Other related duties as assigned.
Required Knowledge and Experience
 7-10+ years of people management experience with 20+ engineers engaged in white box and black box testing, including Director-level experience.
 Experience leading and building Test Engineering and Quality Assurance teams in a fast-paced environment with multiple releases per quarter.
 Possessing a strong results orientation, a demonstrated ability to deliver against his/her strategy within challenging timeframes.
 Driving results within a matrixed, highly parallel environment.
 Strong technical skills across various technologies (Java, Data Integration, Data Warehouse etc) & business acumen.
 Collaborating and working through other internal and external organizations and individuals.
 Outstanding communication skills.
 Experience recruiting and developing talent, specifically test or engineering teams within a software or Internet services development environment known for best-in-class products and services.
 An understanding of the value of data and ability to use data visualization techniques in understanding work flow and problem solving a definite plus.
Qualifications
 Bachelor´s Degree in CS or EE with at least 10+ years of experience.
Working Conditions
 Working conditions are normal for an office environment
 Ability to sit for moderate periods of time working on a computer
 Ability to wear telephone headset
Tableau Software, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.
To apply, or see a full listing of our positions, please visit: www.tableausoftware.com/jobs
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