Job Description:
Director/Chapter Leader - Software Engineering (DC/Workplace Platform QE)
Location: Westlake, TXHybrid: 2 weeks per month in office
The Purpose of Your Role
As a Defined Contribution/Workplace Platform Quality Engineering Director/Chapter Leader, you blend deep knowledge of quality engineering practices and strong engineering skills with a passion for coaching, mentoring, and developing associates. You are deeply committed to improving the value delivered to our customers. In an agile structure you will collaborate with other leaders to establish the standards for your chapter, influence the strategic decisions and build solutions in your expertise. You will directly manage a team of chapter members who primarily work within autonomous squads across product areas yet report directly to you. You are dedicated to helping them grow and develop in their knowledge area and ensure alignment on the “how” of the work they perform. You are committed to developing your own expertise and knowledge to bring the latest thinking to your role to empower others with that knowledge.
The Experience You Have:
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10+ years' experience in directing Quality Engineering/Product Ownership and managing the overall testing effort of QE Test Engineers
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Proven leadership experience with support of large program/product delivery across a globally distributed team.
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Deep technical expertise with confirmed ability to drive technical solutions and automation frameworks/pipelines such as Selenium, Playwright, Rest Assured, Karate, etc.
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Investment as an Agile change agent to continuously improve and encourage an agile way of working
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Proven track record as an outspoken peer leader with peer coaching and strong communications and presentation skills working on collaborative teams to deliver high quality data solutions.
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Uses a data-focused approach to decision making, in day-to-day leadership and strategic tradeoff analyses
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Authentic investment in implementing and sustaining quality gates with an audit and governance approach
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An intellectual curiosity and passion to learn new skills and modeling a culture of continuous learning, mentoring, and coaching
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Proactively partner with Chapter Area, Product Area, Center of Excellence, and Squad Leaders to:
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Influence strategic backlog and prioritization decisions related to your area of expertise
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Measure performance through established objectives and critical metrics and deliver agreed upon business, technology, and people results
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Align associates across teams and product areas to ensure the best utilization of talent while also building learning opportunities and content to develop skills
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Set and apply standards and ensure the work performed is aligned with established road maps
The Skills you Bring:
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10+ years of Technical Excellence: Participate in building the culture of outstanding software engineering practices for the modern Cloud platforms
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Excellent interpersonal and communication skills to build and maintain strong multi-functional partnerships and relationships at all levels of the organization
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Practical experience with quality engineering fundamentals such as test automation, data virtualization, and CI/CD integration
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BS or MS degree in a technical field such as computer science/engineering or related field
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Software testing certifications preferred (ISTQB, CSTE, CAST, ICP-ATA, etc.)
The Team:
You will be part of a team that works in partnership with Squad Leaders and other Chapter Leaders aligned to the Workplace Platforms product area. The teams you will be engaged with are highly engaged and passionate about collaborating and solving problems. By demonstrating and promoting Fidelity and agile leadership behaviors, you will evolve and sustain our innovative, agile culture.
Fidelity’s hybrid working model blends the best of both onsite and offsite work experiences. Working onsite is important for our business strategy and our culture. We also value the benefits that working offsite offers associates. Most hybrid roles require associates to work onsite every other week (all business days, M-F) in a Fidelity office.
Certifications:
Category:Information Technology
Fidelity’s hybrid working model blends the best of both onsite and offsite work experiences. Working onsite is important for our business strategy and our culture. We also value the benefits that working offsite offers associates. Most hybrid roles require associates to work onsite every other week (all business days, M-F) in a Fidelity office.
Top Skills
What We Do
At Fidelity, our goal is to make financial expertise broadly accessible and effective in helping people live the lives they want. We do this by focusing on a diverse set of customers: - from 23 million people investing their life savings, to 20,000 businesses managing their employee benefits to 10,000 advisors needing innovative technology to invest their clients’ money. We offer investment management, retirement planning, portfolio guidance, brokerage, and many other financial products.
Privately held for nearly 70 years, we’ve always believed by providing investors with access to the information and expertise, we can help them achieve better results. That’s been our approach- innovative yet personal, compassionate yet responsible, grounded by a tireless work ethic—it is the heart of the Fidelity way.
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