Hybrid Director, Software Engineering – Software Development Test (SDET)

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About the role

  • Technology leader responsible for defining, driving and scaling enterprise-wide test automation, quality engineering practices.
  • Architect and implement advanced automation solutions across applications, data and platforms.
  • Enable adoption of best practices, and establish the governance, metrics and tools.
  • Drive adoption of automation in all phases of testing including automated regression and smoke tests to improve quality and accelerate testing.
  • Implement automated quality gates, pre/post deployment checks and shift-left testing.
  • Architect scalable, reusable automation frameworks covering UI, API, microservices, data pipelines, Kafka/event driven systems, batch jobs, reports and databases.
  • Define standards for BDD, contract testing, CI/CD integration, synthetic data generation and environment-agnostic test automation.
  • Establish tagging and traceability across automation framework, Jira, Confluence, Test management tools, CI/CD pipelines and Splunk.
  • Introduce and scale synthetic test data management, environment/service virtualization for complex integration testing.
  • Envision and implement AI/ML and Generative AI infused solutions for test case generation, test data generation, automation script generation and quality insights.
  • Build quality engineering and automation center of excellence to drive training, reusable asset libraries and knowledge management artifacts.
  • Partner with development, product, DevOps and Platform Engineering leaders to embed automation into all stages of SDLC.
  • Define, monitor and report KPIs/OKRs for automation outcomes to executives and product owners.
  • Drive compliance with industry standards, regulatory requirements, and audit readiness across automation and QE practices.

Requirements

  • Minimum ten (15) years’ of IT experience with ten (10)+ years in test automation.
  • Proven track record of leading enterprise-scale automation initiatives 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 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
  • Strong background in metrics-driven quality reporting and risk-based decision making.
  • Strong organizational leadership skills
  • Ability to manage multiple, competing priorities and make decisions quickly
  • 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

Benefits

  • A hybrid work environment, up to 2 days per week of remote work
  • Tuition Reimbursement to support your continued education
  • Student Loan Repayment Assistance
  • Technology Stipend allowing you to use the device of your choice to connect to our network while working remotely
  • Generous PTO and Parental leave
  • 401k Employer Match
  • Competitive health benefits including medical, dental and vision

Job title

Director, Software Engineering – Software Development Test (SDET)

Job type

Experience level

Lead

Salary

$159,500 - $262,200 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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