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

Technical Skills

Education

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

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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