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Executive Director, Quality Assurance for Systems and Infrastructure

2 months ago


Chicago, Illinois, United States The Options Clearing Corporation Full time
About the Role

We are seeking an experienced Executive Director, Quality Assurance for Systems and Infrastructure to lead our integration and testing efforts. As a key member of our team, you will be responsible for developing and implementing a comprehensive integration and testing strategy, managing a team of 40-60 resources, and ensuring the quality of our applications and services.

Key Responsibilities
  • Develop and implement a comprehensive integration and testing strategy for our applications and services
  • Lead a team of 40-60 resources responsible for integration and testing
  • Ensure the quality of our applications and services through effective testing and quality assurance processes
  • Collaborate with architecture, development, and business teams to provide cohesive integration plans
  • Recommend, design, develop, and implement automation frameworks to improve testing efficiency
  • Oversee automation frameworks, systems for defect tracking, custom software, and repositories
  • Ensure integration QA metrics (OKRs) are defined and reported, setting minimal acceptable results
  • 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
Qualifications
  • Minimum ten (10) 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
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.

We Offer
  • A highly collaborative and supportive environment developed to encourage work-life balance and employee wellness
  • 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