Director, QA Engineer
About The Position
Morgan Stanley Services Group, Inc. is seeking a Director, QA Engineer in Alpharetta, Georgia. The role analyzes functional requirements and designs test strategies and documents, including requirements traceability matrices. It works with the Business to develop test plans and scripts, plan test data, and prioritize scripts so critical application components are tested. The position builds scalable automation across UI, API, integration, and event-driven layers, and reviews, refactors, and optimizes scripts for stability, reusability, and maintainability. It embeds automated quality gates in CI/CD pipelines, performs log analysis and monitoring, and engineers quality for distributed systems, microservices, and high-availability platforms. The role also leverages AI/GenAI to accelerate test design, automation development, evaluation, and debugging, and practices Spec Driven Development to align specifications, implementation, and validation. The Director, QA Engineer validates release readiness and certifies new functionality for deployment, validates BPM workflows, and owns end-to-end production quality, including release certification and incident triage. The position conducts root-cause analysis for production defects, captures evidence, and implements preventive actions. Telecommuting is permitted up to one day per week.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (any), Computer Science, or a related field of study.
- Five years of experience in the position offered, or five years as an Associate, Programmer Analyst, or in a closely related occupation.
- Five years of experience with Java, Python, and TypeScript.
- Five years of experience with Selenium and Playwright.
- Five years of experience with CI/CD pipelines.
- Five years of experience with TestNG, Cucumber, Jenkins, Git, and Bitbucket.
- Five years of experience with Control-M batch processing.
- Five years of experience with Unix.
- Five years of experience with MySQL.
- Five years of experience with Kibana.
- Five years of experience with Kafka.
- Five years of experience with API Soap UI and Postman.
- Five years of experience with Business Process Management (BPM).
- Five years of experience with integration testing, production validation, production issue investigation, root cause analysis, and release management.
Responsibilities
- Analyze functional requirements and design test strategies and documentation, including requirements traceability matrices.
- Work with the Business to develop test plans and test scripts.
- Plan required test data and prioritize test scripts to ensure critical application components are tested.
- Build scalable automation across UI, API, integration, and event-driven layers.
- Review, refactor, and optimize scripts for stability, reusability, and maintainability.
- Embed automated quality gates into CI/CD pipelines.
- Perform log analysis and monitoring using tools such as Kibana.
- Engineer quality for distributed systems, microservices, and high-availability platforms.
- Use AI/GenAI to accelerate test design, automation development, evaluation, and debugging.
- Practice Spec Driven Development to align specifications, implementation, and validation.
- Validate release readiness from a QE perspective and certify new functionality for deployment.
- Validate BPM workflows to ensure process logic and integration points meet functional requirements.
- Own end-to-end production quality, including release certification and incident triage.
- Conduct root-cause analysis for production defects, capture evidence, and implement preventive actions to improve quality in future releases.
Benefits
- The company describes its employee benefits and perks as attractive and comprehensive, but does not specify individual benefits.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
