Mgr Software development engineer
Volterra
At F5, we strive to bring a better digital world to life. Our teams empower organizations across the globe to create, secure, and run applications that enhance how we experience our evolving digital world. We are passionate about cybersecurity, from protecting consumers from fraud to enabling companies to focus on innovation.
Everything we do centers around people. That means we obsess over how to make the lives of our customers, and their customers, better. And it means we prioritize a diverse F5 community where each individual can thrive.
Job Description
Are you passionate about working with smart people on challenging problems in an environment that values hard work, integrity and teamwork? F5 Networks is hiring for its Centre of Excellence office in Hyderabad, India. Come join us and help build and grow a world class site
Are you passionate about working with smart people on challenging problems in an environment that values hard work, integrity and teamwork? Want the opportunity to work with state-of-the-art cloud technologies, containers and orchestration systems, and microservices?
Position Summary
Manage activities of, quality engineering, and infrastructure & tooling functions for delivering software components and microservices integrated in public and private cloud architecture. Key responsibilities are to develop and manage people, lead project planning, run the agile process, understand and streamline processes across multiple teams for efficiency, facilitate communication, and offer product vision.
As Manager for big-ip Product development team, we are looking for individual who is very hands-on, ready to jump-in as needed, have proven technical leadership experience in software development and engineering services. You will be leading team of Highly skilled engineers who will be building and state of the art networking products. This is very highly visible role and requires individual with strong leadership and proven technical skills. Ideal candidate for this role is individual who is working as technical/team lead and want to make transition into next role which includes both technical and management skills.
Primary Responsibilities
- Employee management including but not limited to sourcing, interviewing, and hiring candidates for open positions, onboarding, establishing goals, assigning or delegating work, providing on-the-job training, giving guidance to staff, conducting performance evaluations, approving paid time-off (PTO), developing performance improvement plans, and taking disciplinary action.
- Lead and manage the software engineering team, ensuring the delivery of high-quality software products.
- Develop and implement automated testing strategies to improve efficiency and accuracy in the testing process.
- Oversee the design and execution of performance testing to ensure the scalability and reliability of software applications.
- Establish and maintain systems for running and reporting on automated tests, providing insights and recommendations for improvements.
- Implement and manage regression testing to ensure that new code changes do not negatively impact existing functionality.
- Develop and maintain quality gates for Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines to streamline the development and deployment process.
- Oversee the test and verification of SaaS applications at scale.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate automated testing into the development lifecycle.
- Mentor and guide team members in best practices for automation, performance testing, and CI/CD.
- Ability to work flexible hours for better collaboration with international counterpart/senior management.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- Knowledge and expertise in software engineering methodologies.
- In depth understanding of Solution testing
- Strong knowledge on automation frameworks
- Able to guide the team for technical aspects.
- Demonstrated ability to lead software development and engineering services.
- Proven ability to deliver products with highest quality, on time and within budget.
- Demonstrated ability in mentoring and developing direct reports.
- Good experience in network technologies
- Ability to collaborate and thrive in a dynamic high performing environment
- Experience in quickly adapting the automation frame works.
- Organizing and controlling the Testing process.
- Ensuring visibility, traceability, and control of testing process to deliver high-quality software.
Qualifications
- B.E Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or other technical degree
- 10+ years software testing experience
- 5+ years performance test experience
- Knowledge of OSI Layer-1 to 7 including LAN switches, routers, general TCP/IP and associated protocols preferred.
- Experience in IETF security technologies like NAT, Firewall, IPSec are highly desirable.
- Excellent organizational agility and interpersonal skills throughout the organization.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Ability to work flexible hours for better collaboration with international counterpart/senior management. Duties may require being on call periodically or working outside normal working hours (evenings and weekends).
The Job Description is intended to be a general representation of the responsibilities and requirements of the job. However, the description may not be all-inclusive, and responsibilities and requirements are subject to change.
Please note that F5 only contacts candidates through F5 email address (ending with @f5.com) or auto email notification from Workday (ending with f5.com or @myworkday.com).
Equal Employment Opportunity
It is the policy of F5 to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and employment applicants without regard to unlawful considerations of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, sensory, physical, or mental disability, marital status, veteran or military status, genetic information, or any other classification protected by applicable local, state, or federal laws. This policy applies to all aspects of employment, including, but not limited to, hiring, job assignment, compensation, promotion, benefits, training, discipline, and termination. F5 offers a variety of reasonable accommodations for candidates. Requesting an accommodation is completely voluntary. F5 will assess the need for accommodations in the application process separately from those that may be needed to perform the job. Request by contacting accommodations@f5.com.