Director, Quality Engineering

The Pizza Hut US Digital and Technology team is looking for a Quality Engineering Director to lead a high-performing team of quality engineers. You will be the strategic and technical driver of automation tools and frameworks for our web and mobile platforms, menu management, in restaurant technology. Your role will focus on ensuring system stability, performance, and reliability, while also driving automation best practices across API, Web, and Mobile platforms.

You’ll work closely with cross-functional leadership, including product, development, and DevOps, to deliver seamless, high-quality user experiences through a robust quality engineering discipline.

• Refine existing practices and implement new quality assurance practices across the organization to ensure the highest quality deliverables reach our consumers. 

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of onshore and nearshore quality engineers.

• Define and track key KPIs and quality metrics to evaluate system health, test coverage, and automation ROI.

• Drive root cause analysis of production issues using observability tools such as DataDog, ensuring continuous system stability.

• Guide the implementation and evolution of test automation frameworks for API, Web, and Mobile platforms.

• Collaborate with development and DevOps teams to optimize performance and quality in a cloud-native infrastructure.

• Maintain a strong partnership with product and engineering leadership to align quality efforts with business goals.

• Stay current on emerging technologies and industry best practices in quality engineering, DevOps, and cloud architecture.

• 8+ years of proven experience leading distributed quality engineering teams, with a focus on strong focus on test automation.

• At minimum bachelor’s in CS, CIS, engineering, or equivalent experience

• Strong Computer Science fundamental knowledge including data structure and algorithms, system design.

• Experience with NodeJS, Typescript, and Golang preferred. 

• Deep technical knowledge of code first test automation tools (e.g., Playwright, Appium, WebdriverIO, BrowserStack)

• Extensive hands-on experience with AWS cloud services and Kubernetes, including monitoring, scaling, and troubleshooting.

• Excellent grasp of CI/CD pipelines, with the ability to integrate automated testing into deployment workflows.

• Experience with observability, monitoring, and logging best practices in distributed systems.

• Strong communication, leadership, and stakeholder management skills.

Salary Range: $180,800 - $230,000

Benefits: Employees (and their eligible family members) may enroll in the following types of insurance coverage: medical, dental, vision, legal, and accidental death and dismemberment, as well as FSA/HSA (depending on enrolled medical plan). Yum! also provides short-term disability, long-term disability, and life insurance. Employees may enroll in our 401(k) plan. Yum! provides 4 weeks of vacation, paid sick leave, 10 paid holidays, a floating day off and 2 paid days for volunteer time each calendar year. To learn more about working at Yum! -Click here. 

At Yum!, one of our core values is to Believe in ALL People. This means seeing the value in everyone and unlocking their full potential to be their best self. YUM! Brands, Inc. (including its subsidiaries Yum Restaurant Services Group, LLC (“YRSG”) and Yum Connect, LLC (“Yum Digital and Technology”)(collectively, “Yum”) is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and is committed to equity, inclusion, and belonging for all dimensions of diversity.  We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, disability status, age, or any other protected characteristic. Yum! is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to applicants with disabilities or special needs.

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