Director of Engineering, Meraki Cloud Software Quality

$231,600 - $330,000/Yr

Cisco

Full-time - Senior

Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing

About the position

As the Director of Engineering for Meraki Cloud Software Quality, you will lead the teams responsible for automating the testing of cross-product aspects of the Meraki Cloud Platform. This role involves defining quality standards, implementing testing methodologies, and collaborating closely with engineering and product leaders to ensure high-quality software delivery. Your success will depend on building strong relationships with developers and product management partners, fostering a collaborative engineering culture, and mentoring your team.

Responsibilities

• Partner with the head of Meraki Cloud and other senior leaders to set quality standards.
• Work with other engineering leaders to articulate the technical vision and short and long-term plans for how Cloud functionality is tested.
• Lead the development of standardized testing frameworks and environments to enable functional, integration, system, and scale testing across Meraki engineering.
• Provide updates to senior leadership, including the CTO, on the state of Cloud Quality.
• Mentor and coach managers and senior test engineers through technical and non-technical challenges.
• Develop career plans for people on your team and help them do the same for theirs.
• Encourage thoughtful and creative ways to recognize achievement.
• Lead performance, compensation, and promotion review processes.
• Provide thoughtful counsel as a member of senior engineering leadership.
• Assist with engineering-wide initiatives such as offsites, training, and process evolution.

Requirements

• Extensive software quality experience (10+ years) testing cloud applications primarily through automated testing.
• Experience defining and building test environments.
• Experience defining quality metrics.
• Experience testing cloud applications at scale.
• Experience managing through managers.
• Experience building a team, making decisions on recruiting, and organization design.
• Excellent communication skills and can articulate a compelling vision.
• Experience partnering closely with software developers and leadership, as well as product management.
• Empathy and emotional intelligence to lead a diverse group of engineers and managers at varying stages of their careers.

Nice-to-haves

• A degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science or Engineering or a related field.
• Experience building a test pipeline in a CI/CD environment.
• Experience with test frameworks such as Cypress.
• Understanding of networking.

Benefits

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Disability insurance
• Employee stock purchase plan
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid Time Off (PTO)
• Paid holidays
• Paid volunteer time