Executive Director, Quality Assurance Business Applications

Summary

Develop the Renaissance integration and testing strategy and manage the integration and testing of the applications/services developed by the Clearing, Risk, and Data Pillar teams. Lead a team of 40-60 resources responsible for the testing of integration points and end-to-end functional and non-functional features.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

• Lead the integration quality of the applications/services by applying business and functional knowledge to develop end-to-end testing strategies using quality processes and methodologies•
• Build, inspire, and guide a high-performance team to deliver best in class integration QA services
• Provide leadership, input, and oversight to project delivery, setting standards for quality and testing
• Collaborate with architecture, development, and business teams to provide cohesive integration plans
• Assist with driving consistency and standardization for process assurance across the development lifecycle (requirements management, development, functional and system test, release management etc.)
• Recommend, design, develop, and implement automation frameworks
• Oversee automation frameworks, systems for defect tracking, custom software and repositories
• Ensure integration QA metrics (OKRs) are defined and reported, setting minimal acceptable results
• Ensure translated product requirements are testable and measurable
• Oversee the Renaissance Test Data Management function and ensure Encore test data is effectively and securely delivered as required for development and integration
• Manage the integration DevOps function, ensuring test environments are made available and are stable as needed
• Interact with Product Owners, Technology Leads, Project Managers, and Leadership Team members to recommend solutions that best meet the strategic needs of the business
• Contribute to performance engineering practices by providing inputs on capacity planning, performance tuning, diagnostics, problem detection and resolution
• Develop integration procedures and common metrics to ensure that efficiency, collaboration, and quality standards are achieved
• Manage project planning, including allocation of resources, assignment, and coordination
• Provide input on application security testing
• Provide development teams with integrated test environments as needed
• Teach/enable team members to use new applications for testing to deploy across OCC
• Influence across organizational teams to create alignment and resolve conflicts

Supervisory Duties

• Manages a team of 40-60 individuals including people managers, individual contributors, and consultants/contractors

Qualifications

• Minimum ten (7) years’ experience with leading the design and set-up of test automation frameworks, processes, and tools
• Experience with BDD methodologies & automated acceptance testing
• Experience with Agile development processes for enterprise software solutions
• Solid understanding of options and derivatives clearing and settlement business processes
• Strong organizational leadership skills
• Ability to manage multiple, competing priorities and make decisions quickly
• Capability to support processes and development teams across a diversified group of business segments
• Knowledgeable about industry trends, best practices, and change management
• Strong communication skills with the ability to communicate and interact with a variety of internal/external customers, coworkers, and Executive Management
• Strong work ethic, hands-on, detail oriented with a customer service mentality
• Team player, self-driven, motivated, and able to work under pressure
• Results-oriented and demonstrated record of developing initiatives that impact productivity

Technical Skills

• Software test design best practices
• Software QA methodologies (requirements analysis, test planning, functional testing, usability testing, performance testing, etc.)
• Utilizing best practices in software engineering, software test automation, test management tools, and defect tracking software
• Past/Current experience of 3+ years working on a large-scale cloud native project Experience with cloud technologies and migrations using public cloud vendor preferably using cloud foundational services like AWS’s VPCs, Security groups, EC2

Education and/or Experience

• BS degree in Computer Science or Information Systems Management or a similar technical field
• 15+ years of experience

Certificates or Licenses

• None Required

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