Sr. Director, Quality Assurance Engineering

Dotdash Meredith

274d • $190,000 - $210,000 • Remote

About The Position

DDM is seeking a highly experienced, capable Director of Quality Assurance Engineering to join its Digital Product & Technology team. This role will define and enforce high standards of excellence for our burgeoning Quality Assurance Engineering department, and will ensure an optimal experience for the consumers of our iconic media brands, including People, AllRecipes, InStyle, Martha Stewart Living, Better Homes & Gardens, and dozens more. At DDM, quality assurance plays an integral part in our software-development life cycle. We have multiple teams of committed QA engineers who test a variety of products and services. As a seasoned veteran with more than a decade's experience with automated and manual testing methodologies, you will galvanize our QA resources and oversee Meredith Digital's first-ever centralized QA Engineering department. Extending the Consumer Engineering group, you will collaborate with directors and managers from Engineering, Product, and Project Management teams to gauge and fulfill testing needs, employing leading-edge techniques and technologies, and you will promote QA as a first-class citizen in the creation and deployment of Meredith Digital products. This Senior Director will develop a global vision for QA at Meredith Digital while plotting strategies tailored to individual product types, which include highly trafficked Web sites, native mobile applications, Web-based internal tools, and back-end APIs. You will establish and document best practices, and you will train and motivate our excellent staff of QA managers and testing engineers, building a trusted, centralized QA culture within Meredith Digital.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or Masters in Engineering.
• 10+ years of professional experience in digital quality assurance.
• 7+ years of managing direct reports.
• 7+ years of hands-on experience with automated and manual Web and mobile testing.
• Thorough knowledge of and experience with all testing types, e.g., functional, regression, etc.
• Thorough knowledge and experience with automated testing solutions, e.g., Selenium.
• Familiarity with software-development and continuous-integration conventions and tooling, including Git, Github, CircleCI, and Jenkins.
• Experience integrating QA into an agile development methodology, using JIRA or similar management tools.
• Experience with testing APIs is a plus.
• Knowledge of and experience with Amazon Web Services is a plus.
• Intermediate to advanced grasp of Web technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, HTTP).

Nice To Haves

• Particular experience with Katalon Studio is a major plus.
• Outstanding management skills and natural leadership qualities.
• Outstanding communication, analytical and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Define Quality Assurance standards and practices: Document QA department guidelines and processes.
• Develop strategies for deploying automated and manual testing solutions for Web sites, Web tools, mobile applications, and APIs.
• Collaborate with engineering, product, and project-management leaders to assign QA resources and embed them in the software life cycle.
• Keep track of output from automated and manual testing efforts.
• Develop systems for delivering test results back into the software-development pipeline.
• Determine metrics and continuously evaluate efficacy of QA department's efforts.
• Regularly meet with direct reports to discuss job performance and goals.
• Effectively prioritize and delegate tasks.
• Conduct annual performance reviews.
• Keep abreast of technology trends and tools.
• Encourage and foster a climate of innovation within the QA team.
• Devise and execute short- and long-term plans to continuously improve quality assurance throughout the Meredith organization.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, prescription drug coverage.
• Unlimited paid time off (PTO).
• Adoption or surrogate assistance.
• Donation matching.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• Basic life insurance.
• Basic accidental death & dismemberment.
• Supplemental life insurance.
• Supplemental accident insurance.
• Commuter benefits.
• Short term and long term disability.
• Health savings and flexible spending accounts.
• Family care benefits.
• Generous 401K savings plan with a company match program.
• 10-12 paid holidays annually.
• Generous paid parental leave (birthing and non-birthing parents).
• Voluntary benefits such as pet insurance, accident, critical and hospital indemnity health insurance coverage.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Industry: Publishing Industries
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree