The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) is seeking to define and drive an enterprise-wide quality engineering strategy, standards, and governance to enhance software delivery and reliability. This involves leading the adoption of modern engineering practices, metrics, and compliance across all testing teams, while enabling alignment between product, development, DevOps, and testing teams.
Requirements
- Minimum ten (7) years’ experience with leading the design and set-up of test automation frameworks, processes, and tools
- Strong experience of QE methodologies, automation frameworks, DevOps and CI/CD.
- Experience with BDD methodologies & automated acceptance testing
- Experience with Agile development processes for enterprise software solutions
- Proficiency with modern quality engineering tools including Jira, Jenkins, automation frameworks, test management tools.
- Software QA methodologies (requirements analysis, test planning, functional testing, usability testing, performance testing, etc.)
- Familiarity with microservices and event driven architecture and emerging technologies (AI/ML in QE).
Responsibilities
- Define and own the enterprise QE governance framework, standards and policies
- Establish and enforce quality metrics, reporting and compliance across all testing teams.
- Drive adoption of automation, DevOps quality practices including quality gates and shift-left testing to improve quality and cycle time reduction.
- Provide leadership, input, and oversight to project delivery, risk management and release readiness.
- Recommend, design, develop, and implement automation frameworks
- Oversee automation frameworks, systems for defect tracking, custom software and repositories.
- Develop and implement test data management and test environment management practices including appropriate tooling.
Other
- Based in Chicago, Illinois and is hybrid 3 days per week on site minimum. Only local candidates already based in the Chicagoland area will be considered for the role.
- Collaborate with architecture, development, and business teams to provide cohesive integration plans
- Lead governance forums, steering committees and executive reviews.
- Interact with Product Owners, Technology Leads, Project Managers, and Leadership Team members to embed quality in delivery, recommend solutions that best meet the strategic needs of the business
- Manages a team of people managers, individual contributors, and consultants/contractors
