Technical Program Manager II, Software Testing, Google Home
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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 2 years of experience in program management.
- Experience in software testing, software quality assurance, or quality testing.
Preferred qualifications:
- 2 years of experience managing cross-functional or cross-team projects.
- Experience testing consumer electronics applications.
- Knowledge in mobile application development, testing and tools.
- Excellent investigative, problem-solving, communication and organizational skills.
About the job
A problem isn’t truly solved until it’s solved for all. That’s why Googlers build products that help create opportunities for everyone, whether down the street or across the globe. As a Technical Program Manager at Google, you’ll use your technical expertise to lead complex, multi-disciplinary projects from start to finish. You’ll work with stakeholders to plan requirements, identify risks, manage project schedules, and communicate clearly with cross-functional partners across the company. You're equally comfortable explaining your team's analyses and recommendations to executives as you are discussing the technical tradeoffs in product development with engineers.At Google Home, our mission is to create a home that takes care of the people inside it and the world around it. As part of the Health and Home Engineering Excellence Team, you will be driving software quality to launch high quality, popular features for the Google Home App. You will bring together multiple Engineering teams building excellent solutions to complex and challenging test engineering problems to provide quality insights throughout the product development life-cycle.The Google Home team focuses on hardware, software and services offerings for the home, ranging from thermostats to smart displays. The Home team researches, designs, and develops new technologies and hardware to make users’ homes more helpful. Our mission is to create a home that cares for the people inside it and the world around it.
Responsibilities
- Influence cross-functional teams on roadmap planning and decisions at each milestone with a mindset to ship highest quality software.
- Prioritize program goals, understand and translate other stakeholders’ needs into program goals and prioritized deliverables with minimal assistance, and contribute to decisions on prioritizing goals and deliverables.
- Review key metrics pertaining to a program, monitor potential metric deviations, and define corrective actions for critical deviations.
- Communicate with external partners on integration efforts for delivering high quality end user experiences.
- Define the scope of projects and develop, execute, or manage project plans for supported programs.
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