AVP, SDET - Quality Engineer

As an AVP, Quality Engineering Lead, you’ll serve as a strong and versatile hands-on technical leader. Successful leaders at LPL communicate well with teams and leaders of the organization, have active listening skills, ask great questions and provide good development feedback.  You will build strong and highly functional partnerships with the delivery and leadership teams. You have strong team leadership skills, influence without authority, make and propose needed changes to bring more impact and the ability to hire, guide, coach and grow exceptional technology teams. You are a visible leader who thrives on developing and motivating future technology leaders. You foster an innovation culture and a thirst for technology innovation.

Responsibilities:

• Lead a team of Software Development Engineers in Test (SDET’s) working in Agile model supporting Account Lifecycle Management delivery teams to achieve consistent, predictable, high-quality releases by implementing common practices, tools, metrics, automation frameworks, oversight and delivering high-quality solutions that meet business objectives in a flexible, collaborative and rapidly changing environment.

• Work as a leader/trainer in a large, complex QA organization, with a demonstrated ability to implement scalable automation solutions

• Drive innovative testing solutions within a complex Enterprise Platform

• Educate team with Security, Accessibility scans / testing, PLSQL

• Provide guidance and strategy on testing AI/ML powered applications / Bots

• Attract, hire, empower and develop the best engineers      

• Driving quality metrics to improve customer quality

• Drive release efficiency, reduce regression cycle time, and time to market  

• Coordinate and lead end-to-end (E2E) testing efforts across domains, leveraging AI tools for test orchestration, anomaly detection, and intelligent defect triaging.

• Identify manual processes and implement intelligent automation solutions using AI/ML frameworks to optimize testing efficiency and reduce cycle time.

• Actively Participate in Agile Scrum ceremonies and lead where applicable – PI Planning, Sprint Planning, Daily Standups, Defect Review, Sprint Demo, Restrospectives, etc.

• Actively participate in story grooming, analysis, and understanding the user story acceptance criteria

• Working with software engineers to understand product architecture, integrations, and features

• Documenting, tracking bugs to closure, and reporting on project status to stakeholders

• Working in an Agile/Scrum environment to deliver high-quality software

• Ability to write complex queries to perform data validation

• Serves as SME for one or more functional areas, acts as technology ambassador for automation, and builds efficient solutions

• Leads process, technology improvement efforts, KPIs/OKRs within the quality engineering team and a larger part of the organization to improve engineer productivity, Speed, and Quality.

• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment where resourcefulness, determination, and strong problem-solving skills are necessary for success.

• Positive attitude and the ability to complete assigned objectives with minimal supervision.

What are we looking for?

We want strong collaborators who can deliver a world-class client experience. We are looking for people who thrive in a fast-paced environment, are client-focused, team-oriented, and are able to execute in a way that encourages creativity and continuous improvement.

Requirements:

• Minimum of 12 years of experience working as a Developer, QA Engineer, or SDET working in Agile scrum teams OR Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science or similar, plus 6+ years of experience

• Hands-on experience in software development and test automation, advanced concurrent programming skills in Java/Python, exposure to AI-assisted development tools, and automation frameworks like Selenium, Appium, TestNG, etc.

• Experience designing and building scalable automation frameworks, focusing on integrating AI/ML for intelligent test generation and maintenance.

• Hands-on experience with test processes, test methodologies, test strategy, test plan, and test ca