Director of Quality Engineering

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Director of Quality Engineering

Location: Atlanta, GA (Hybrid – 2–3 days onsite/week)

Employment Type: Full-time, Permanent

A growing and innovation-focused organization in the insurance and financial services sector is seeking a Director of Quality Engineering to lead the charge in modernizing and elevating its software quality practices across multiple product lines. This is a highly visible and strategic leadership role reporting directly into Platform Leadership, with influence across engineering, product, architecture, and security domains.

The right candidate will be both a visionary and a hands-on technical leader—someone who can define a scalable quality strategy while also driving the implementation of automation, governance, and process excellence.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Leadership & Execution

• Define and drive a quality engineering strategy aligned with Agile, DevOps, and enterprise engineering goals.
• Serve as a technical thought leader in automated testing, code quality, and software performance assurance.
• Lead a geographically distributed team of QA engineers embedded across multiple value streams.

Process Engineering & Governance

• Standardize defect management, triage, and resolution processes to accelerate issue resolution.
• Promote consistency in tools, automation frameworks, and testing methodologies.
• Develop and report on meaningful quality KPIs to enable transparency and drive continuous improvement.

Team Development & Cross-Functional Influence

• Mentor QA professionals and develop technical leaders within the team.
• Foster a culture of accountability, curiosity, and innovation in quality engineering.
• Collaborate closely with Engineering, Product, Architecture, and Cybersecurity teams to embed quality into all phases of software delivery.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in software engineering or quality assurance, with 5+ years in leadership roles.
• Demonstrated success leading QA or QE strategy within an enterprise Agile environment.
• Proficiency in modern CI/CD pipelines, automated testing frameworks, cloud-native architectures, and DevOps QA practices.
• Hands-on experience with performance testing, test data management, and test observability tools.
• Prior exposure to regulated or compliance-driven industries such as insurance, fintech, or healthtech is preferred.
• Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills across technical and business audiences.
• Competitive 401(k) with matching
• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and FSA options
• Generous PTO, company holidays, and floating holidays
• Paid parental leave and sabbatical eligibility
• Adoption and medical travel reimbursement programs
• Wellness incentives, including fitness reimbursements and mental health subscriptions
• Strong emphasis on DEI, community involvement, and charitable matching programs
• Creative, purpose-driven, and inclusive work culture

If you're a quality-focused engineering leader ready to drive transformation and build scalable excellence in a fast-moving environment, we’d love to connect.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Director

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Information Technology

• Industries

  Insurance

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