Director, Quality Assurance Engineering

Job Description:

Pacific Life is investing in bright, agile, and diverse talent to contribute to our mission of innovating our business and technology to support a superior customer experience. We are actively seeking a talented Director Quality Engineering to join our Pacific Life Technology team. This new role will report to the VP, Engineering Excellence.  The role is ideally based in Newport Beach, CA (hybrid), and works with a diverse group of business and technology leaders ensuring delivery teams have the direction and tools needed for success. 

As a Director Quality Engineering within Pacific Life Technology, you will play a key role in Pacific Life’s growth and long-term success, developing and executing upon the overall strategy and roadmap for the ecosystem of technology driving quality assurance engineering excellence across Pacific Life. 

The Director Quality Engineering does more than test software. They take the lead in performance and security testing to build resilient systems and use automated and manual testing to efficiently test system functionality without compromising quality. Principally, they embrace the "automate everything" philosophy and function well in changing environments along with driving ‘quality by design’ as a central tenant of software development at Pacific Life. This leader is a champion of engineering excellence at Pacific Life, owning and driving best in class quality engineering activities, processes and people across the organization globally. 

How you will make an impact: 

• Set the vision, strategy, and action plan to implement quality engineering practices and improve code quality 

• Lead the strategic implementation of all quality assurance engineering activities, processes, and people 

• Lead the development of standardizing testing frameworks and environments to enable functional, integration, system, and scale testing across PL Engineering

• Ensure performance and quality products are in line with best practices and standards on testing, engineering excellence and quality management, and evaluate emerging trends for potential implementation 

• Partner with other senior leaders to set and adopt quality standards to Pacific Life Engineering practices

• Champion quality, driving increased efficiency and effectiveness while partnering with enterprise programs to develop test strategies, benchmark and monitor team performance, and assist teams in solving problems  

• Coach organizations at-scale on how to blend automated and manual testing to efficiently cover the system’s functionality  

• Build strategies that strive to automate and maintain comprehensive test suites with a continuous improvement mindset  

• Ensure software engineering standards and practices related to quality are ingrained in all design and development 

• Prioritize and deliver iteratively in a continuously changing environment 

• Work with Operations to set practices, policies, processes, frameworks to run tests in production environments after deployment 

The experience you will bring: 

• 10+ years of experience