Product Owner - Eggplant Test Studio

Keysight Technologies
Glasgow
6 months ago
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Keysightis on the forefront of technology innovation, delivering breakthroughs and trusted insights to the world’s visionaries and innovators in electronic design, simulation, prototyping, test, manufacturing, and optimization. Our ~15,000 employees create world-class solutions in communications, 5G, automotive, energy, quantum, aerospace, defense, and semiconductor markets for customers in over 100 countries. Our technical solutions – and our methods for creating them – help connect and secure the world.


Our powerful culture has led to us being independently recognized on Fortune 100’s Best Companies List and we are “Great Place to Work” Certified. We’re driven, collaborative, ethical, and curious, and we value all ideas, especially bold ones. And our culture extends far beyond our own walls. Our corporate social responsibility efforts support our communities, nurture the next generation of engineers, and promote environmental sustainability.


At Keysight, Inclusion, Equity & Diversity is an integral part of our core values. We believe that when people feel a sense of belonging, they can be more creative, innovative, and thrive at all points in their careers. We believe everyone should be respected in the workplace and in their communities regardless of race, color, age, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, ethnicity, religion, disability, veteran status, national origin, or any protected class. We continuously challenge ourselves to grow in our understanding of inclusion by engaging in a wide variety of diversity programs, initiatives, employee network groups and mentoring/development.


About the Team:

Keysight Eggplant helps businesses to test, monitor and analyze their end-to-end customer experience across different interfaces, platforms, browsers, and devices — including mobile, IoT, and desktop — in agile, DevOps, and innovative application and data environments.

Eggplant’s customers use Eggplant automation suites to assure the quality of their applications through UI test automation. Eggplant’s Test Studio team is building the next generation of Eggplant’s Integrated Development Environment (IDE), via an extension to Visual Studio Code.

About the Job:

We are seeking a Product Owner for the Eggplant Test Studio team. Partnering with your Product Managers, you will be the guidance system that ensures our product teams delight our customers with a steady stream of valuable functionality in the domain of software test automation. You represent the customer in the development process and inform your opinions with hands-on experience using our own software. You understand the technology stack which underpins our software and use this understanding to make trade-off calls. You utilize the best of agile/lean thinking to define and sequence work in small increments, prioritized to maximize value for our customers. Together with the team’s R&D Manager, you are the voice of the team in all discussions related to roadmap planning and delivery. Together with our Product Managers, you will partner outwards with our business stakeholders/customers and inwards with your delivery team to drive complete alignment to, and execution of, our product strategy.


Responsibilities:

  • Drives in-depth discussions, from detailed product functionality discussions with stakeholders, down to implementation tradeoffs with the development team.
  • Refines and prioritizes the product backlog to drive the success of the development team and the product.
  • Communicates with all stakeholders: from customers, to internal VPs, to individual members of the development team, surfacing the hidden details/requests that make the difference between success or failure, satisfaction or disappointment.
  • Documents high-level feature requirements and communicates them to the teams.
  • Understands the needs of our customers (before they do!) and keeps the customer at the forefront of all the work we do. Conveys this understanding and urgency to the product development teams.
  • Challenges and inspires the development teams to achieve more than they thought possible but in a sustainable manner, by being a part of the team, not above or outside it.


Must-Have Qualifications:

  • Bachelors or Masters Degree or University Degree or equivalent.
  • Advanced level of experience in a formal Product Owner role. Experience in agile/lean as it pertains to product ownership, you view agile as a tool, not as performative art.
  • Experience with Craft.io, Jira, TestRail, GitLab or similar application lifecycle management tools.
  • Outstanding facilitation and communication skills.
  • Strong administrative capabilities and methodologies, which allow you to manage and prioritize even the most unruly backlog.
  • You are steeped in the best practices for agile Story definition.


Desired Qualifications:

  • Minimum of advanced experience, but preferably expert level in a software development role, either as a developer or as a quality engineer.
  • Knowledge about the test automation market and test automation software products. Bonus points if you are already familiar with Eggplant’s test automation products.
  • Scrum/SAFe certification, especially in Product Ownership.
  • Experience with continuous delivery.
  • Experience delivering software that laverages node.js, Electron, or is a VS Code extension.
  • Experience delivering software that leverages OCR technology.
  • Experience with managing and modernizing legacy software stacks.


Other Information:

  • Relocation is not available for this position
  • Visa Sponsorship is not available for this position


What we offer:

A place within an exciting company! At Keysight we develop with our visionary, market-leading, and highly innovative customers breakthroughs that connect and secure the world. We offer you a highly competitive package. See our website for culture and our Benefits.

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