Director, Software Engineering : Software Development Test (SDET)

Technology Leader For Enterprise Test Automation

Technology leader responsible for defining, driving and scaling enterprise-wide test automation, quality engineering practices. This role will architect and implement advanced automation solutions across applications, data and platforms, enable adoption of best practices, and establish the governance, metrics and tools. The role combines technical expertise with strong leadership and stakeholder collaboration skills to deliver next generation automation infusing AI capabilities.

Primary duties and responsibilities include :

• 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 include managing a team of people managers, individual contributors, and consultants / contractors.

Qualifications include :

Technical skills include :

Education and / or experience includes :

Certificates or licenses are not required.

The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) is the world's largest equity derivatives clearing organization. Founded in 1973, OCC is dedicated to promoting stability and market integrity by delivering clearing and settlement services for options, futures and securities lending transactions. As a Systemically Important Financial Market Utility (SIFMU), OCC operates under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. OCC has more than 100 clearing members and provides central counterparty (CCP) clearing and settlement services to 19 exchanges and trading platforms.

A highly collaborative and supportive environment developed to encourage work-life balance and employee wellness. Some of these components include :

The salary range listed for any given position is exclusive of fringe benefits and potential bonuses. If hired at OCC, your final base salary compensation will be determined by factors such as skills, experience and / or education. In addition, we believe in the importance of pay equity and consider internal equity of our current team members as part of any final offer. We typically do not hire at the maximum of the range in order to allow for future and continued salary growth. We also offer a substantial benefits package as noted on www.theocc.com / careers.

The salary range is $158,600.00 - $263,700.00. This position is eligible for an annual discretionary incentive compensation award, for which the target range is listed above (see Incentive Range). The amount of such award, if any, will be based on various factors, including without limitation, both individual and company performance.

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Step 3 : If you are called in for an interview, a representative from OCC will contact you to set up a date, time, and location.

OCC is an Equal Opportunity Employer.