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Wabtec Corporation is a leading global provider of equipment, systems, digital solutions and value-added services for freight and transit rail. Drawing on nearly four centuries of collective experience across Wabtec, GE Transportation and Faiveley Transport, the company has unmatched digital expertise, technological innovation, and world-class manufacturing and services, enabling the digital-rail-and-transit ecosystems. Wabtec is focused on performance that drives progress, creating transportation solutions that move and improve the world. Wabtec has approximately 27,000 employees in facilities throughout the world. Visit the companys new website at: .Its not just about your career or your job titleits about who you are and the impact you are going to make on the world. Do you want to go into uncharted watersdo things that havent been done to make yours and someone else's life better? Wabtec has been doing that for decades and we will continue to do so! Through our people, leadership development, services, technology and scale, Wabtec delivers better outcomes for global customers by speaking the language of industry.Its not just about your career or job title Its about who you are and the impact you will make on the world. Because whether its for each other or our customers, we put People First. When our people come together, we Expand the Possible and continuously look for ways to improve what we create and how we do it. If you are constantly striving to grow, youre in good company. We are revolutionizing the way the world moves for future generations, and we want someone who is ready to move with us.Who are we?Wabtec Corporation is a leading global provider of equipment, systems, digital solutions, and value-added services for freight and transit rail as well as the mining, marine, and industrial markets. Drawing on nearly four centuries of collective experience across Wabtec, GE Transportation, and Faiveley Transport, the company has grown to become One Wabtec, with unmatched digital expertise, technological innovation, and world-class manufacturing and services, enabling the digital-rail-and-transit ecosystems.Wabtec is focused on performance that drives progress and unlocks our customers potential by delivering innovative and lasting transportation solutions that move and improve the world. We are lifelong learners obsessed with making things better to drive exceptional results. Wabtec has approximately 27K employees in facilities throughout the world. Visit our website to learn more!The Quality Assurance Manager is responsible for managing software testing for Wabtecs Digital Intelligence Network Operations Terminal suite of products, which include Movement Planner and Yard Planner and may include the Dispatch Product - PDS2 in the future. As a manager of a software test group, you will apply your knowledge of management, software testing methodologies, best practices, and proven processes to deliver a quality software product on budget, within planned schedule with superb quality. This specific position will manage a set of software test engineers to focus on system level testing for the Terminal suite of products.The Terminal suite of products includes: -Movement Planner is a simulation-based planning system that integrates the physical model of the network to compute the running times of trains between stations and to forecast arrival/departure times at scheduled stops and waypoints, independent of the scheduled times.Yard Planner is the new product suite offered by Wabtec to its Class I and Short Line Rail customers. Yard Planner offers the management of all the yard activities such as movement of inbound and outbound trains, assignment of tracks and management of work/tasks for the crew. Hump and Flat yard handle functionality of hump and flat yards respectively.PDS 2 is a Cloud-Native application that consists of a set of microservices that are deployed on a Kubernetes-based Container Orchestration Platform. PDS 2 application relies on several services such as Relational Database, Key-Value store, Message Broker(s), Identity Provider, Secrets Manager. PDS 2 uses contemporary DevSecOps practices such as Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment that facilitates deployment strategies such as Rolling, Canary and Blue/Green.Duties and Responsibilities:Demonstrate very strong technical leadership and people management skills including solid communication and analytical skills with thorough understanding of product development and successful problem definition, decomposition, estimation and resolution.Able to deliver software product completely tested by the System Testing team for multiple customers across multiple product lines as per the release timelines.Responsible for building a world class software system integration testing team to support the system integration of the Terminal suite of products.Responsible to aligning with cross-functional service team owners to understand scope and designing test strategies for the same.Validate application and services to ensure the product meets all operational standards.Influence decision making through active partnership with cross-functional teams.Coach, mentor and lead a diverse group of lean/agile software test engineers.Work with product owners across the businesses to understand the product scope, needs & vision; quickly translate those into demonstrable test validation criteria.Work directly with customers to understand testing needs of business and technical needs.Drive increased efficiency across the teams, eliminating duplication, leveraging product and technology reuse.Support process improvements which guide the development, sustaining & support activitiesSupport in Senior Leadership reporting by providing metrics.Communicate effectively both within immediate team and Wabtec leadership. Ensure team receives consistent messages and has clear understanding of business direction, strategy, and results.Lead and focus a product integration testing team of testers to implement, automate and validate the Product deliveries.Other duties as assigned.Minimum Qualifications: (To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.)Bachelors Degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Information Technology, MIS, Engineering, or a closely related field of studyA minimum of 15 years of professional experience OR Masters degree with 10 years of experienceMinimum 3 years of experience in a testing leadership / management roleLead and mentor team effectively. Able to perform performance reviewsEstablishes vision, Identifies and champions internal/external best practices, tools, and ideas to improve execution and quality. Drives an organization of efficiency, accountability and ownership.Able to verbalize what is behind decisions and downstream implications. Continuously reflecting on success and failures to improve performance and decision-making. Understands when change is needed. Participates in technical strategy planning.Build a team of highly technical test engineers to implement and integrate applications using the Wabtec Test FrameworkGood understanding of test automation using Selenium, REST assured, and other automation tools in a SAFe/Agile environment.Good knowledge of CI/CD to support continuous automation and deployment process.Understanding with testing REST APIs using apps such as Postman and Java packages such as REST assured.Experience with any issue-tracking and agile project management tools such as Rally, xWiki, HP ALM etc.Knowledge of cloud technologies in AWS.Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:Good understanding of System Testing strategies by developing test strategies and framework.Strategic and creative thinking to analyze issues that may arise and create solutions.Able to review team members work related to estimation, test strategy, test cases, test results and other work products generated by the team.Ability to respond positively to feedback and implement change in process and procedures as needed.Defines Test Strategy. Lays out test roadmap for all the products. Uses industry trends to define test strategies and test plans.Understand the problems from a customer perspective and suggest creative solutions.Demonstrates awareness about railroad industry, with knowledge on competitors and industry trendsSkilled in breaking down problems, documenting problem statements and estimating efforts.Evangelizes the notion that anything worth doing takes repeated effort and failure. Drives the organization and team toward a continued excitement of attaining the vision and goal in the face of resistance.Continuously measures deliverables of self and team against scheduled commitments. Effectively balances different, competing objectives.Travel requirement may be 10%-20% annually, for customer and quarterly planning activities.Our Commitment to Embrace Diversity:Wabtec is a global company that invests not just in our products, but also our people by embracing diversity and inclusion. We care about our relationships with our employees and take pride in celebrating the variety of experiences, expertise, and backgrounds that bring us together. At Wabtec, we aspire to create a place where we all belong and where diversity is welcomed and appreciated.To fulfill that commitment, we rely on a culture of leadership, diversity, and inclusion. We aim to employ the worlds brightest minds to help us create a limitless source of ideas and opportunities. We have created a space where everyone is given the opportunity to contribute based on their individual experiences and perspectives and recognize that these differences and diverse perspectives make us better.We believe in hiring talented people of varied backgrounds, experiences, and styles People like you! Wabtec Corporation is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or expression, or protected Veteran status. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.Wabtec Corporation is committed to taking on the worlds toughest challenges. In order to fulfill that commitment we rely on a culture of leadership, diversity and inclusiveness. We aim to employ the worlds brightest minds to help us create a limitless source of ideas and opportunities. We believe in hiring talented people of varied backgrounds, experiences and stylespeople like you! Wabtec Corporation is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or expression, or protected Veteran status. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.

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