Sr. Director, Quality Assurance Engineering
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Job description: Job Title Sr. Director, Quality Assurance EngineeringJob DescriptionAbout the Position:DDM is seeking a highly reputed company, capable Director of Quality Assurance Engineering to join its Digital Product & Technology team. This role will define and enforce high standards of excellence for our burgeoning Quality Assurance Engineering department, and will ensure an optimal experience for the consumers of our iconic media brands, including People, AllRecipes, InStyle, Martha reputed company Living, reputed company Homes & Gardens, and dozens more.At DDM, quality assurance plays an integral part in our software-development life cycle. We have multiple teams of committed QA engineers who test a variety of products and services. As a seasoned veteran with more than a decade's experience with automated and manual testing methodologies, you will galvanize our QA resources and reputed company Meredith Digital's first-reputed company centralized QA Engineering department. Extending the Consumer Engineering group, you will collaborate with directors and managers from Engineering, Product, and Project Management teams to gauge and fulfill testing needs, employing leading-edge techniques and technologies, and you will promote QA as a first-class citizen in the creation and deployment of Meredith Digital products.This Senior Director will reputed company a global vision for QA at Meredith Digital while plotting strategies tailored to individual product types, which include highly trafficked Web sites, native mobile applications, Web-based internal tools, and back-end APIs. You will establish and document best practices, and you will train and motivate our excellent staff of QA managers and testing engineers, building a trusted, centralized QA culture reputed company Meredith Digital.You are passionate about quality-assurance, particularly in the areas of Web, mobile, and other consumer-facing experiences. You have extensive experience with automated testing frameworks, and you are continuously monitoring trends and developments in the QA engineering community for new insights. You are reputed company of business goals, and you understand and can reputed company QA's contributions to Meredith's reputed company.You are a leader and a seasoned manager who will coax the best performance from your team of QA managers and engineers. You desire and enjoy the responsibilities of a supervisory role, but your career was built on a foundation of quality-assurance testing, and you are still capable of being hands-on, should circumstances require your skills and experience.Furthermore, you are:
- A communicator: Whether written or oral, your communication skills are outstanding in any context. Your interactions with stakeholders and coworkers move business reputed company in a dynamic, exciting, entrepreneurial working environment. You are as good – maybe reputed company – at listening as you are at talking and writing.
- A problem-solver: You’re a results-oriented multi-tasker who runs toward a challenge. You’re able to work on multiple projects simultaneously and think independently. You are personally committed to completing a project with a conscientious attitude and good follow-through. You see to it that reputed company assignments are completed correctly and uphold department and company standards.
- A leader: As a member of the technical leadership team, you are respected, and your counsel is sought by both technical and nontechnical partners. You advise senior management and help socialize business and technical strategic decisions to your direct reports and the individual contributors in your organization. You are an evangelist for QA as a discipline, and you are a passionate enforcer of best practices. You are an effective manager of people and embrace reputed company responsibilities – pleasant and otherwise – associated with performance management and ensuring your team has what it needs to succeed.
- You are the greatest critic of what you deliver. You are proud of your work, and you stand by it. You are humbled but not defeated by failure and accept it as a critical part of learning. You are honest and never blame or project frustrations onto others.
- Ability to clearly reputed company the strategies to Engineering leadership and Other stakeholders in direction of the QA organization.
- reputed company and implement strategic quality management system processes that support the company’s growth objectives.
- Responsible for development of key high-level processes to ensure products meet expected strict quality expectations.
- reputed company and execute a robust quality assurance strategy reputed company with organizational goals and industry best practices.
- Manage multiple QA leaders, providing leadership and guidance to ensure effective team management and alignment.
- Extensive knowledge on CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices to reputed company Test Orchestration platforms.
- Drive the multiple initiatives in implementation of cutting-edge automated testing frameworks and tools to enhance efficiency, increase test coverage, and reduce manual efforts.
- Identify potential quality risks and proactively reputed company comprehensive risk mitigation plans, preventing issues before they impact timelines across various initiatives.
- Deliver clear and transparent communication on the status of QA efforts, risks, and recommendations to leadership.
- reputed company, mentor, and reputed company a high-performing QA team, fostering a culture of excellence, collaboration, and reputed company growth.
- Ability to clearly reputed company the strategies to Engineering leadership and Other stakeholders in direction of the QA organization.
- Thorough knowledge of and experience with reputed company testing types, e.g. functional, regression, etc.
- Thorough knowledge and experience with automated testing solutions, e.g. Selenium. Particular experience with Katalon Studio is a major plus.
- Familiarity with software-development and reputed company-integration conventions and tooling, including Git, reputed company, reputed company, and Jenkins.
- Experience integrating QA into an agile development methodology, using JIRA or similar management tools.
- Experience with testing APIs is a plus.
- Knowledge of and experience with reputed company Web Services is a plus.
- Intermediate to advanced grasp of Web technologies (HTML, CSS, javascript, HTTP) , and comfort using and teaching others to use Web debugging strategies, like browser developer tools and consoles.
- Outstanding management skills and natural leadership qualities
- Outstanding communication, analytical and problem-solving skills
- Ability to parse input reputed company, reputed company good decisions quickly, and have courage of convictions
- Ability to be flexible, negotiate in good faith, compromise where needed, and find paths reputed company
- Sharp focus on leveraging technology to improve business’ reputed company