Closing Date 2025-03-18
THE BIG PICTURE
Sysco LABS is the captive innovation arm of Sysco Corporation (NYSE: SYY), the world’s largest foodservice company. Sysco is a Fortune 500 company and the global leader in selling, marketing, and distributing food products to restaurants, healthcare, and educational facilities, lodging establishments and other customers who prepare meals away from home. Its family of products also includes equipment and supplies for the foodservice and hospitality industries. With more than 76,000 colleagues, the company operates 334 distribution facilities worldwide and serves approximately 730,000 customer locations. For fiscal year 2024 that ended July 1, 2024, the company generated sales of more than $78.8 billion.
Operating with the agility and tenacity of a tech–startup, powered by the expertise of the industry leader, Sysco LABS is perfectly poised to transform one of the world’s largest industries.
Sysco LABS’s engineering teams based out of Colombo, Sri Lanka and Austin and Houston, TX, innovate across the entire food service journey – from the enterprise grade technology that enables Sysco’s business, to the technology that revolutionizes the way that Sysco connects with restaurants and the technology that shapes the way those restaurants connect with customers.
Sysco LABS technology is present in the sourcing of food products, merchandising, storage and warehouse operations, order placement and pricing algorithms, the delivery of food and supplies to Sysco’s global network, the in-restaurant dining experience of the end-customer and much more.
THE OPPORTUNITY
We are currently on the lookout for an Architect - Quality Engineering to join our team.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Providing technical quality engineering leadership and expertise to multiple engineering teams
- Playing a key role in evangelizing a full-stack quality engineering philosophy within the organization, uplifting standards in test automation, performance engineering, security testing and overall testing processes
- Taking responsibility for the selection of test strategy for projects and providing guidance and recommendations to teams on achieving the optimum testability (Test Automation, Performance Engineering & Security Testing)
- Providing technical QE direction to Quality Engineers in adherence to coding, quality, functionality, performance, scalability and on-time delivery standards
- Supporting QE teams in test estimations, planning, test design, reporting and matrices in order to achieve quality in deliveries
- On a regular basis, reviewing test scenarios and automated test scripts and providing guidance for continuous improvement
- Staying up to date with emerging trends in quality engineering, while supporting the organization in evaluating suitable strategies and steering feasibility study initiatives
- Training and mentoring Quality Engineers to uplift standards and bring testing productivity into test strategies
- Driving tool selection and overseeing the development of test infrastructure across projects
- Working collaboratively with Engineering, Product, Project Management, and UI/UX teams to review on requirements, architecture and designs to ensure comprehensive testability can be achieved
- Mentoring, coaching and leading a team of Quality Engineers.
REQUIREMENTS
- A Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent qualification and 9+ years of industry experience
- At least 2 years of experience in playing a similar role and having experience in handling multiple projects, clients in diversified technology spectrums
- Strong knowledge in quality engineering practices and processes
- Expert knowledge of agile software testing practices, test design techniques and test reporting
- Experience working in an Agile and DevOps environment and strong knowledge in software engineering concepts
- Experience in solving software test automation challenges in a pragmatic approach
- Experience in building web and mobile test automation frameworks using open source tools such as Selenium and Appium
- Experience in testing middle-tier and service oriented architectures using tools such as Rest-Assured or SoapUI
- Strong knowledge of Java, OOP concepts, coding standards and improving code quality
- Expertise in backend or API performance testing
- Expertise in performance testing tools such as JMeter
- Experience in testing large scale enterprise services, or performance/scale/stress tests
- Experience in working with continuous integration/delivery, build and source control tools such as Jenkins, Maven and GIT
- Excellent communication, presentation, leadership and negotiation skills
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
- Professional certifications such as ISTQB, PMI-ACP or CSM (Certified Scrum Master) would be an added advantage
- A thirst for learning and regularly updating knowledge
BENEFITS
- US dollar-linked compensation
- Performance-based annual bonus
- Performance rewards and recognition
- Agile Benefits - special allowances for Health, Wellness & Academic purposes
- Paid birthday leave
- Team engagement allowance
- Comprehensive Health & Life Insurance Cover - extendable to parents and in-laws
- Overseas travel opportunities and exposure to client environments
- Hybrid work arrangement
