Managing Director, Enterprise Testing

What You'll Do:

Develop and implement the Enterprise vision and strategy for software quality assurance, test data, and test environment management. Lead a team responsible for test method development, automation, verification, and validation for a major financial utility. Define and drive the future of OCC’s software quality assurance by envisioning complex ecosystems and inspiring teams to transform OCC’s testing.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each primary duty satisfactorily.

• Lead the overall quality of the programs/applications/solutions 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 QA services

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

• Collaborate with architecture, development, and business teams to provide cohesive testing services, plan, and execute large scale projects

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

• Drive execution through the establishment of organizational structures, processes and incentive programs.

• Ensure compliance with relevant regulations, standards, and policies.

• Interact with key business partners 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 procedures and common metrics to ensure that efficiency, collaboration, and quality standards are achieved

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

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

• Build a strong relationship with the Chief Information Officer, IT Leadership Team and executive team of the OCC. Present change objectives and deliveries to the board and at industry forums when required.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

• Manages a team of people managers, individual contributors, and consultants/contractors

Qualifications:

The requirements listed are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the primary functions.

• Strong strategic thinking skills, with the ability to see the big picture and anticipate change.

• Strong communication skills, with the ability to effectively communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

• Ability to execute large initiatives spanning multiple functional teams

• Knowledgeable about industry trends, best practices, and change management

• Strong understanding of the how to validate fault tolerant, high availability systems running on cloud infrastructure

• Experienced operating in a highly regulated organization responsible for systems with the highest levels of resiliency

• Experience with systems supporting a real-time messaging environment that is integrated with numerous industry participants

• 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

• Ability to manage multiple, competing priorities and make decisions quickly

• Strong communication skills with the ability to communicate and interact with a variety of internal/external customers, co-workers, 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

• Proactive and solutions-oriented with experience working in ambiguity

Technical Skills:

• 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

• Define test strategies, organizational structures, and best practices to successfully implement large-scale custom solutions running on public cloud infrastructure that are replacing legacy solutions (big-bang go-live software implementations)

Education and/or Experience:

• BS degree in Computer Science, similar technical field

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.

Benefits

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
• 401k Employer Match
• Competitive health benefits including medical, dental and vision

Visit https://www.theocc.com/careers/thriving-together for more information.

Compensation

• The salary range listed for any given position is exclusive of fringe benefits and potential bonuses. If hired at OCC, your final base salary compensation will be determined by factors such as skills, experience and/or education.
• In addition, we believe in the importance of pay equity and consider internal equity of our current team members as part of any final offer.
• We typically do not hire at the maximum of the range in order to allow for future and continued salary growth. We also offer a substantial benefits package as noted on www.theocc.com/careers
• All employees may be eligible for a discretionary bonus. Discretionary bonuses are based on various factors, including, but not limited to, company and individual performance and are not guaranteed.

Salary Range

Incentive Range

This position is eligible for an annual discretionary incentive compensation award, for which the target range is listed above (see Incentive Range). The amount of such award, if any, will be based on various factors, including without limitation, both individual and company performance.

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Step 3
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OCC is an Equal Opportunity Employer