Executive Director, Quality Assurance Business Applications

3 weeks ago

Chicago IL United States Options Clearing Corporation Full time
Summary

A variety of soft skills and experience may be required for the following role Please ensure you check the overview below carefully.

Develop the Renaissance integration and testing strategy and manage the integration and testing of the applications/services developed by the Clearing, Risk, and Data Pillar teams. Lead a team of 40-60 resources responsible for the testing of integration points and end-to-end functional and non-functional features.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

Lead the integration quality of the applications/services by applying business and functional knowledge to develop end-to-end testing strategies using quality processes and methodologies•

Build, inspire, and guide a high-performance team to deliver best in class integration QA services

Provide leadership, input, and oversight to project delivery, setting standards for quality and testing

Collaborate with architecture, development, and business teams to provide cohesive integration plans

Assist with driving consistency and standardization for process assurance across the development lifecycle (requirements management, development, functional and system test, release management etc.)

Recommend, design, develop, and implement automation frameworks

Oversee automation frameworks, systems for defect tracking, custom software and repositories

Ensure integration QA metrics (OKRs) are defined and reported, setting minimal acceptable results

Ensure translated product requirements are testable and measurable

Oversee the Renaissance Test Data Management function and ensure Encore test data is effectively and securely delivered as required for development and integration

Manage the integration DevOps function, ensuring test environments are made available and are stable as needed

Interact with Product Owners, Technology Leads, Project Managers, and Leadership Team members to recommend solutions that best meet the strategic needs of the business

Contribute to performance engineering practices by providing inputs on capacity planning, performance tuning, diagnostics, problem detection and resolution

Develop integration procedures and common metrics to ensure that efficiency, collaboration, and quality standards are achieved

Manage project planning, including allocation of resources, assignment, and coordination

Provide input on application security testing

Provide development teams with integrated test environments as needed

Teach/enable team members to use new applications for testing to deploy across OCC

Influence across organizational teams to create alignment and resolve conflicts

Supervisory Duties

Manages a team of 40-60 individuals including people managers, individual contributors, and consultants/contractors

Qualifications

Minimum ten (7) years’ experience with leading the design and set-up of test automation frameworks, processes, and tools

Experience with BDD methodologies & automated acceptance testing

Experience with Agile development processes for enterprise software solutions

Solid understanding of options and derivatives clearing and settlement business processes

Strong organizational leadership skills

Ability to manage multiple, competing priorities and make decisions quickly

Capability to support processes and development teams across a diversified group of business segments

Knowledgeable about industry trends, best practices, and change management

Strong communication skills with the ability to communicate and interact with a variety of internal/external customers, coworkers, and Executive Management

Strong work ethic, hands-on, detail oriented with a customer service mentality

Team player, self-driven, motivated, and able to work under pressure

Results-oriented and demonstrated record of developing initiatives that impact productivity

Technical Skills

Software test design best practices

Software QA methodologies (requirements analysis, test planning, functional testing, usability testing, performance testing, etc.)

Utilizing best practices in software engineering, software test automation, test management tools, and defect tracking software

Past/Current experience of 3+ years working on a large-scale cloud native project Experience with cloud technologies and migrations using public cloud vendor preferably using cloud foundational services like AWS’s VPCs, Security groups, EC2

Education and/or Experience

BS degree in Computer Science or Information Systems Management or a similar technical field

15+ years of experience

Certificates or Licenses

None Required

About Us

The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) is the world's largest equity derivatives clearing organization. Founded in 1973, OCC is dedicated to promoting stability and market integrity by delivering clearing and settlement services for options, futures and securities lending transactions. As a Systemically Important Financial Market Utility (SIFMU), OCC operates under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. OCC has more than 100 clearing members and provides central counterparty (CCP) clearing and settlement services to 19 exchanges and trading platforms. More information about OCC is available at www.theocc.com.

What We Offer

A highly collaborative and supportive environment developed to encourage work-life balance and employee wellness. Some of these components include:

A hybrid work environment, up to 2 days per week of remote work

Tuition Reimbursement to support your continued education

Student Loan Repayment Assistance

Technology Stipend allowing you to use the device of your choice to connect to our network while working remotely

Generous PTO and Parental leave

Competitive health benefits including medical, dental and vision

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OCC is an Equal Opportunity Employer

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