Senior Director of Quality Assurance

Role overview

Set and lead quality strategy across a broad software portfolio, aligning testing practices with product goals and customer needs. The role provides cross-team leadership to roughly 150 quality and automation professionals across 10 distributed product teams, while partnering with engineering, product, support, and senior executives. A central focus is modernizing quality engineering through automation, analytics, and AI-assisted testing.

Responsibilities - Establish shared quality standards, governance, tools, and improvement programs across product teams. - Define and report measures such as defect trends, release stability, automation effectiveness, and customer-reported issues; prepare executive updates and recommendations. - Coach QA leaders and engineers, strengthen capability development, and encourage consistent practices across distributed teams. - Guide functional, regression, integration, performance, security, and automated testing, including its integration into CI/CD delivery. - Improve release readiness through clear quality gates, risk-based planning, defect visibility, and collaboration with engineering and product teams. - Advance AI-assisted testing and predictive quality approaches; work with support and customer-facing teams to address significant customer issues.

Requirements - Significant leadership experience in quality assurance or quality engineering across a substantial product portfolio. - Ability to lead through influence across multiple teams and locations, and to mentor managers, leads, and senior engineers. - Strong understanding of test automation, modern testing disciplines, CI/CD, release management, and quality metrics. - Experience communicating quality risks, performance, and recommendations to executive stakeholders. - A valid, active security clearance appropriate to the role.

Benefits and work setup - The stated U.S. total target annual compensation range is $233,000–$300,000, with the starting offer depending on experience, skills, and location. - Benefits include medical, dental, and vision coverage; spending accounts; disability and life insurance; a retirement plan with employer match; and paid vacation.