Director of Quality Assurance

We are seeking a QA Director with a proven track-record that can bring the passion, work ethic and expertise needed to lead a strong quality engineering team, who is available ONSITE in Omaha, NE. This is a senior leadership role focused on scaling the organization and practices. Delivering best-in-class functionality at a competitive velocity. Managing direct reports and driving both waterfall and agile quality of state/local and federal government systems by ensuring all product changes meet strict quality expectations.

Working in close partnership with application development and business, you will establish strategic and operational testing technology best practices and processes to effectively and efficiently manage incoming demand of work. You will also ensure successful implementation of software releases while ensuring balance of capacity planning and forecasting of team tasks.

Responsibilities:

• Manage and coach 4 direct reports and 36 indirect reports.
• Drive Quality Practices and Standards across the Organization
• Champion the culture of quality delivery through requirements based testing
• Lead, Manage and Mentor large QA Team
• Drive growth and standards of Automated Testing Practices
• Track and report on all quality metrics at team, process and production operating levels
• Make data-driven recommendations to enhance operational excellence, leading the implementation of new processes and activities
• Process-oriented mindset and high degree of familiarity with modern test technologies and tools
• Provides status updates and progress reports to the project team, senior leadership and the clients (IRS, Fiscal Service & BofA)
• Strong organizational skills
• Strong knowledge of test-related aspects of agile software methodologies

Experience:

• 10 years of related technical leadership experience
• 5 years of management in leading large teams using various SDLC methodologies, i.e., Agile/Waterfall
• Strong organizational skills
• Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills (oral, written and interpersonal) including the ability to communicate technical concepts to a non-technical audience
• Ability to contribute and direct at all levels of testing including unit, functional, automation, performance and scalability testing; be able to step in and provide leadership in test design and implementation
• Familiarity with testing tools and processes such as:
• Jira – Defect Mgmnt, sprint management, requirements mapping, test case matrix
• AMP, Postman, Testrail or similar tools
• WebLoad, LoadNinja, IBM Rational
• Familiarity with 508 / ADA Compliance is a strong plus
• Experience in financial services payments industry a plus
• Experience in development of CI/CD or DevOps Testing Models a plus

Must be located in the Omaha, NE metropolitan area, and must be open to being onsite.

There is NO Sponsorship available or Corp to Corp for this position. US Citizenship or Green Card Holder is a requirement.