Director, Software Engineering

Job Description:

Job Description: Director - Software Quality Engineering

Location: Westlake, TX

The Purpose of Your Role

As a Quality Engineering Director, you blend deep knowledge of quality engineering practices and strong engineering skills with a passion for coaching, mentoring, and developing associates. You are deeply committed to improving the value delivered to our customers. In an agile structure, you will collaborate with other leaders to establish the standards for your department, influence the strategic decisions, and build solutions based on your expertise. You will directly manage a team of engineers who primarily work within agile teams across product areas. You are dedicated to helping them develop in their domain area and ensure consistency on how they work. You are committed to developing your own expertise and knowledge to bring the latest thinking to your role to empower others with that knowledge.

The Experience and Skills that are Key to this Role

• Seasoned technical people leader focused on leading, coaching, mentoring, and developing people and teams to accelerate and achieve increased skill proficiency
• Investment as an Agile change agent to continuously improve and encourage an agile way of working
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills to build and maintain strong multi-functional partnerships and relationships at all levels of the organization
• Proven record as a confident leader with strong communications and presentation skills
• Uses a data-focused approach to decision-making, in day-to-day leadership and strategic tradeoff analyses
• Authentic investment in implementing and sustaining quality gates with an audit and governance approach
• Practical experience with quality engineering fundamentals such as test automation, data virtualization, and CI/CD integration
• Deep technical expertise with ability to drive technical solutions and automation frameworks/pipelines such as Selenium, Playwright, Rest Assured, Karate, etc.
• An intellectual curiosity and passion to learn new skills and modeling a culture of continuous learning, mentoring, and coaching
• Experience in resource planning and talent allocation across large organizations
• Actively share insights, knowledge, industry practices and developments across the organization
• Proactively partner with Senior Management, Product Area, Center of Excellence, and Product Managers to:

• Influence backlog and prioritization decisions related to your area
• Measure performance through established objectives and critical metrics and deliver agreed-upon business, technology, and people results
• Align associates across teams and product areas to ensure the best utilization of talent while also building learning opportunities and content to develop skills
• Set and apply standards and ensure the work performed is aligned with established road maps
• Remove impediments to delivering value

• 7+ years of Technical Excellence: Participate in building the culture of outstanding software engineering practices for the modern platforms
• Dedicated team builder, collaborator, and partner
• BS or MS degree in a technical field such as computer science/engineering or related field
• Software testing certifications preferred (ISTQB, CSTE, CAST, ICP-ATA, etc.)