Managing Director, Enterprise Testing

What You'll Do:

Develop and implement the Enterprise vision and strategy for software quality assurance, test data, and test environment management. Lead a team responsible for test method development, automation, verification, and validation for a major financial utility. Define and drive the future of OCC’s software quality assurance by envisioning complex ecosystems and inspiring teams to transform OCC’s testing.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each primary duty satisfactorily.

• Lead the overall quality of the programs/applications/solutions 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 QA services

• Provide leadership and oversight to project delivery, setting standards for quality and testing

• Collaborate with architecture, development, and business teams to provide cohesive testing services, plan, and execute large scale projects

• Drive consistency and standardization for process assurance across the development lifecycle (requirements management, development, functional and system test, release management etc.)

• Drive execution through the establishment of organizational structures, processes and incentive programs.

• Ensure compliance with relevant regulations, standards, and policies.

• Interact with key business partners 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 procedures and common metrics to ensure that efficiency, collaboration, and quality standards are achieved

• Manage project planning, including allocation of resources, assignment, and coordination

• Teach/enable team members to use new applications for testing to deploy across OCC

• Build a strong relationship with the Chief Information Officer, IT Leadership Team and executive team of the OCC. Present change objectives and deliveries to the board and at industry forums when required.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

• Manages a team of people managers, individual contributors, and consultants/contractors

Qualifications:

The requirements listed are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the primary functions.

• Strong strategic thinking skills, with the ability to see the big picture and anticipate change.

• Strong communication skills, with the ability to effectively communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

• Ability to execute large initiatives spanning multiple functional teams

• Knowledgeable about industry trends, best practices, and change management

• Strong understanding of the how to validate fault tolerant, high availability systems running on cloud infrastructure

• Experienced operating in a highly regulated organization responsible for systems with the highest levels of resiliency

• Experience with systems supporting a real-time messaging environment that is integrated with numerous industry participants

• Minimum ten (10) years’ experience with leading the design and set-up of test automation frameworks, processes, and tools

• Experience with BDD methodologies & automated acceptance testing

• Ability to manage multiple, competing priorities and make decisions quickly

• Strong communication skills with the ability to communicate and interact with a variety of internal/external customers, co-workers, 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

• Proactive and solutions-oriented with experience working in ambiguity

Technical Skills:

• 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

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