Job Title : Director of IT Quality Assurance
Position Type : Direct Placement
Salary : $136k - 200k / hr
Location : Los Angeles, CA
Work Type : Hybrid, 3 days a week in office
Join a Leading Technology Firm
Are you a seasoned Director of IT Quality Assurance with a passion for driving quality excellence? We're seeking a visionary leader to join our team and oversee all aspects of quality engineering, ensuring the delivery of high-quality products and services.
Key Responsibilities :
- Define and promote a quality mindset across the IT organization.
- Develop and implement quality assurance policies, programs, and initiatives.
- Evaluate and monitor tools, methodologies, and automation for effective testing.
- Lead process and product testing to ensure compliance with quality standards.
- Oversee quality control and assurance teams, including environment management, test data management, and test architects.
- Develop strategic plans and collaborate with senior IT management to align with overall IT goals.
- Drive transformation and build high-performing quality engineering teams.
- Manage team operations, including hiring, supervision, coaching, training, and motivation.
- Serve as a thought leader and champion of best practices in quality engineering.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure high-quality feature delivery.
- Develop, implement, and enforce quality standards, tools, and methods.
- Develop goals, objectives, and action plans for assigned staff.
- Engage in Agile methodologies to inform data quality and testing considerations.
- Design, implement, and drive adoption of global quality assurance and test automation practices.
- Evaluate and integrate technical systems and end-to-end data flows for comprehensive testing.
- Manage global test environments in collaboration with DevOps / platform engineering.
- Prepare briefings, reports, and presentations on regulatory positions and policy.
- Conduct root cause analysis and identify underlying issues in IT quality processes.
- Recommend remediation actions to improve technology quality performance.
- Collaborate with cross-department leadership for successful product and service delivery.
Qualifications :
- Bachelor's Degree in Business or Information Technology (Master's preferred).
- 7+ years of experience in software quality assurance, including automation and manual testing.
- 5+ years of experience managing a quality assurance team.
- Experience planning and executing end-to-end testing of integrated systems.
- Experience with API testing.
- Experience with SDLC and Agile / Scrum methodologies.
- Expertise in various types of testing (integration, regression, backend, system, end-to-end, user acceptance, performance).
- Experience with DevOps, CI / CD, and test environment setup.
- Robust analytical skills and excellent decision-making, problem-solving, and time-management abilities.
- Strong communication and presentation skills.
Preferred Certifications :
International Software Testing Qualifications Board (ISTQB) Certification
About the Company :
Not-for-profit healthcare organization focused on serving vulnerable and underserved communities in Los Angeles. Seeking entrepreneurial professionals with a passion for healthcare and business process improvement.
Join our team and make a positive impact.
Keywords : Director, Information Technology, Quality Assurance, QA, Test Automation, Agile, DevOps, SDLC, CI / CD, Test Environment, Software Testing, ISTQB
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