Director, Test Automation Frameworks

What You'll Do:

Technology leader responsible for delivering enterprise-wide test automation frameworks. This role will architect and implement automation framework solutions across applications, data and platforms, as well as drive adoption of best practices. The role combines technical expertise with strong leadership and stakeholder collaboration skills to deliver next generation automation.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

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

• Architect scalable, reusable automation frameworks covering UI, API, microservices, data pipelines, Kafka/event driven systems, batch jobs, reports and databases.

• Drive adoption of automation in all phases of testing including automated regression and smoke tests to improve quality and accelerate testing, by driving adoption of the framework.

• Deliver CI/CD integration for test automation.

• Architect integration of synthetic data into the test framework in lower environments.

• Enforce tagging and traceability across automation framework, Jira, Confluence, Test management tools, CI/CD pipelines and Splunk.

• Drive compliance with industry standards, regulatory requirements, and audit readiness across automation practices by reporting out through the framework.

• Ensure readability of instruction and availability of information as it pertains to the frameworks capabilities

• Partner with EQM on automation strategy to ensure success across the enterprise

Supervisory Responsibilities:

• Manages a team of individual contributors, and manages deliverables of Consultants and 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.

• Minimum ten (10)+ years in of IT experience in engineering.

• Proven track record of leading enterprise-scale automation in complex, distributed environments (microservices, cloud, batch applications, data, MQ, Kafka event driven systems).

• Hands-on experience with service virtualization, synthetic test data management.

• Strong hands-on expertise in architecture and strategy for testing and test automation tools and frameworks including Jira, BDD, Selenium, Cucumber, REST-assured, JMeter, Playwright.

• Strong programming experience in Java and Python.

• Deep understanding of DevOps, CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Harness, GitHub), cloud platforms (AWS, Azure) and containerized environments (Kubernetes, Docker).

• Experience with Kafka/event-driven testing, large data set validations

• Experience with Agile development processes for enterprise software solutions

Technical Skills:

• Proficiency with modern quality engineering tools including Jira, Jenkins, automation frameworks, test management tools.

• Software QA methodologies (requirements analysis, test planning, functional testing, usability testing, performance testing, etc.)

• Familiarity with AI/ML/GenAI Solutions in QE.

• 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

• 10+ years of experience in Quality Assurance space preferably on complex systems and large programs.

Certificates or Licenses:

• None

About Us

The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) is the world's largest equity derivatives clearing organization. Founded in 1973, OCC is dedicated to promoting stability and market integrity by delivering clearing and settlement services for options, futures and securities lending transactions. As a Systemically Important Financial Market Utility (SIFMU), OCC operates under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. OCC has more than 100 clearing members and provides central counterparty (CCP) clearing and settlement services to 19 exchanges and t