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Director, Software Engineering: Software Development Test (SDET)
Director, Software Engineering: Software Development Test (SDET)The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) • Chicago, IL, United States
Director, Software Engineering : Software Development Test (SDET)

Director, Software Engineering : Software Development Test (SDET)

The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) • Chicago, IL, United States
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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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