QE Manager

More than seven billion people depend on farms for healthy and affordable food. By 2050, the global population will surpass nine billion and farmers will need new ways to deliver on this surging demand. They’ll be seeking options that both sustain the environment and help them to be economically viable, and are increasingly turning to the world’s leading Farm Management Software (FMS), Granular.

As an organization, we are committed to delivering the most innovative and industry leading digital products that our customers will love.

We’re looking for a QE Manager to join our team. This role is integral to Granular's success and is a unique opportunity to join a mission focused, fast-paced, smart and fun team.

At Granular, you’ll have the opportunity to work with a top-tier leadership team with proven entrepreneurial expertise to reshape the $3 trillion agriculture industry. We’re growing quickly, and expanding our team. We’re looking for proactive, intellectual, and versatile individuals to join our team to improve the lives of our farmers.

Throughout the pandemic, we’ve provided an employee-focused response to COVID-19 where safety is key. As of July 2021, we reopened our Johnston, IA and Champaign, IL office hubs and now offer a hybrid approach of intentional in office time to work and collaborate, balanced with the flexibility to work from home. Our San Francisco office will reopen this fal

What You’ll Get To Do:

• Manage a team of experienced Quality engineers test multiple Granular products
• Actively coach, mentor, guide and manage quality assurance engineers to deliver high quality software
• Responsible for owning testing methodologies, risk mitigations and metrics
• Learn the team(s), the business, the culture, testing and automation process to build future improvement strategies
• Demonstrate strong leadership as we transition our framework from Java to Python
• Improve automation coverage and speed partnering with Product Teams
• As Granular embarks on unifying various of its products into a single platform; this leadership role will be pivotal to ensure integration testing stability, speed and risk mitigation.
• Develop and nurture relationships with Product, Development, Delivery, Design, & GTM to develop best-in-class experience for our users
• Improve all aspects of the product - both technical and processes - and deliver outstanding results for our customers

Who You Will Do It With:

• The team is one of 6 other teams in the QA engineering organization
• The team is embedded with the product scrum team
• Work on a software that will change how we farm across the globe
• Learn and use latest technologies
• Transform how we test software while allowing team members to grow
• Be a game changer on how we test
• After bringing efficiency gain, expand into other testing offerings such as performance, chaos and accessibility testing

Who You Are:

• At least 4-9 years of QE/SDET experience including 1+ years of hands on people management experience
• Ability to automate, peer review and contribute to automation code written in Python
• Experience testing containerized application running on AWS or one of the major cloud platforms
• Native Mobile testing experience is a must 
• Possess a strong passion for quality, high level of attention to detail, and the proven ability to manage multiple competing priorities simultaneously
• Demonstrates servant leadership and passion for leading and mentoring the team
• Has excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with a proven ability to build strong, productive relationships.
• Has worked in an agile environment and is comfortable using project management tools like JIRA, Asana, Rally, etc.
• Has a BA/BS degree or equivalent experience
• The candidate as a plus would have experience with:
• Experience leading development of AgTech applications
• Experience in the identity and access management domain

​​Perks and Benefits:

• Upward mobility. We are growing and need talent who can take on increasingly challenging and rewarding roles
• Flexible Vacation Policy + Sick Time
• 10 paid company holidays per year
• Volunteer Time Off
• 401k Matching Program
• Employer sponsored Medical, Dental, Vision, Disability and Life Insurance
• Healthcare and Dependent Care FSA
• Family Parental Leave
• Learning Programs and Employee Development
• Open floor plan and dog-friendly offices when offices re-open
• As of July 2021, we reopened our Johnston, IA and Champaign, IL office hubs and now offer a hybrid approach of intentional in office time to work and collaborate, balanced with the flexibility to work from home. Our San Francisco office will reopen this fall.

Who We Are:

Granular is Farm Management Software (FMS) that is helping thousands of farmers to build stronger farms today and steward their lands for generations to come. Granular uniquely combines an industry-leading support team with the most recommended suite of easy-to-use powerful software to help farmers and their teams run all aspects of their farm business. From financials to agronomy to operations, farmers are now able to make data-driven decisions with greater confidence in an increasingly challenging environment.

Granular was founded in 2014 with the mission of helping farmers run more profitable and efficient business instead of maximizing bushels. Built as a collaboration between several of the most advanced family farms and top technology investors including Google Ventures, Granular is widely credited for launching the first modern, built in the cloud and mobile-centric FMS in 2014. In 2017, Corteva Agriscience acquired Granular to bring together the best technologists, scientists, and entrepreneurs from across the world with its global presence and deep resources to serve the needs of farmers through the transformative effects of digital technologies.

Today, our over 400 passionate employees are on a mission helping our customers solve their problems today and for food demands in the future by shaping agriculture through continuous innovations in farm productivity, profitability, and environmental sustainability.

Granular is San Francisco-based, with offices worldwide. Granular is an independent, wholly-owned subsidiary of Corteva Agriscience (NYSE:CTVA), a spin off of DowDuPont™. Learn more about our company and people at http://granular.ag/, Twitter, @GranularAg, and Instagram, @Granular_Ag, or facebook.com/GranularAgriculture/

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.