Manager, Quality Engineering (Automation)

About the role

The Manager, Quality Engineering (Automation) will lead the development and implementation of automated testing strategies and solutions, incorporating them into the development cycle within Chipotle's Agile teams. T his position collaborates with multiple teams to deliver operational excellence for all work performed within Quality Engineering across all of Chipotle IT. LOCATION This position will be based in our Newport Beach, CA office 4 days per week (with work from home on Friday). Remote work is not available for this role. Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc. (NYSE: CMG) is cultivating a better world by serving responsibly sourced, classically cooked, real food with wholesome ingredients without artificial colors, flavors or preservatives. Chipotle has restaurants in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, France and Germany and is the only restaurant company of its size that owns and operates all its restaurants in North America and Europe. With employees passionate about providing a great guest experience, Chipotle is a longtime leader and innovator in the food industry. Chipotle is committed to making its food more accessible to everyone while continuing to be a brand with a demonstrat

Responsibilities

• Directly contribute to Chipotle's success across our most visible customer-facing solutions both online and in-restaurant.
• Cultivate and disseminate knowledge of quality and testing best practices. Guide and mentor direct reports and the organization on best practices and principles as it relates to automated testing strategies and solutions.
• Partner with other QE leaders in the development of the automated test engineering strategy, methodology, discipline, and frameworks to ensure and continuously improve quality, performance, and reliability of assigned products.
• Partner with other QE leaders in driving scalable design patterns and implementations that can be re-used throughout the organization.
• Have strong working knowledge of OOAD, design principles such as SOLID and Design patterns.
• Participate in evaluations and gap/overlap analysis of tools and current solutions/implementations.
• Create and enhance report dashboards for work being performed by the Quality Engineering team.
• Thinking "outside of the box" to understand the various scenarios and configurations that customers use to ensure customer quality is maintained.
• Develop future leaders on the Quality Engineering team, expand their skills, and embrace servant leadership by removing roadblocks, giving team members autonomy and ownership.
• Work with other leaders in software development, product management, cloud/infrastructure, application support, and data, insights, & analytics teams to help define solution and application performance requirements.
• WHAT YOU'LL BRING TO THE TABLE
• Bachelor's Degree (BA/BS) from 4-year college or university preferred.
• 5+ years of working experience in a Senior SDET or similar role.
• 1-3 years of relevant people leadership experience.
• Proven track record of implementing automated testing strategies and solutions of highly complex and distributed systems.
• Strong desire to build and lead teams while creating a culture of problem solving and collaboration through large-scale engineering.
• Proficiency with cloud technologies (either AWS or Azure).
• Experience with observability solutions and platforms including, but not limited to, Splunk, DataDog, Prometheus, Grafana.
• Experience with languages such as JavaScript and/or TypeScript , C#, SQL, Powershell.
• Experience with modern test automation solutions including, but not limited to, Playwright, Cypress, wdio, Postman.
• Experience with test automation SaaS providers including, but not limited to, Saucelabs, Browserstack.
• Experience with Azure or AWS DevOps, Agile process improvement, CI/CD pipeline management and automation, NPM , or other package managers.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to collaborate effectively with all business units.
• PAY TRANSPARENCY

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Additional Information

CULTIVATE A BETTER WORLD Food served fast does not have to be a typical fast-food experience. Chipotle has always done things differently, both in and out of our restaurants. We are changing the face of fast food, starting conversations, and directly supporting efforts to shift the future of farming and food. We hope you will join us as we continue to learn, evolve, and shape what comes next on our mission to make better food accessible to everyone.

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