Director, Software Engineering : Software Development Test (SDET)

Director, Software Engineering : Software Development Test (SDET)

Join us at

The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC)

as a senior technology leader responsible for defining, driving, and scaling enterprise-wide test automation and quality engineering practices.

What You'll Do

As a technology leader, you will architect and implement advanced automation solutions across applications, data, and platforms, enable adoption of best practices, and establish governance, metrics, and tools.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

Define and execute the enterprise automation strategy aligned with business and technology modernization goals.

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.

Supervisory Responsibilities

Manages a team of people managers, individual contributors, and consultants / contractors.

Qualifications

Minimum fifteen years of IT experience, including ten years in test automation.

Proven track record of leading enterprise-scale automation initiatives in complex, distributed environments.

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

Strong 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 and 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 and ability to manage multiple priorities.

Strong communication skills with the ability to interact with internal and external customers, coworkers, and executive management.

Results‑oriented record of developing initiatives that impact productivity.

Technical Skills

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

Software QA methodologies : requirements analysis, test planning, functional testing, usability testing, performance testing.

Familiarity with AI / ML / Generative AI solutions in QE.

Experience with large‑scale cloud native projects, public cloud services, and migration.

Education

BS degree in Computer Science, Information Systems Management, or a similar technical field.

Benefits

Hybrid work environment, up to 2 days per week of remote work.

Technology stipend allowing use of device of choice while working remotely.

Tuition reimbursement, student loan repayment assistance, and generous PTO and parental leave.

401(k) employer match and competitive health benefits.

Compensation

Salary range : $159,500 – $262,200. Incentive range : 23% – 30% annual discretionary incentive compensation.

Equal Opportunity Employer

OCC is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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