Manager, Quality Engineering - National Office (Remote)
YMCA of the USA · Chicago, IL · Yesterday
Quality AssuranceFull-time
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree or higher required in a relevant field such as Business, or related disciplines.
- 4-8 years of experience required.
- Advanced functional skills.
- Intermediate industry knowledge and experience.
- Entry to intermediate managerial skills.
- Complex/advanced functional and operations tasks.
- A high degree of decision-making within own area.
- Focused on policy and strategy implementation for short-term results.
- Internal and external communications.
- A high influence over teams and within the function.
- May set goals and objectives for team members for achievement of operational results.
Essential Functions
- Quality Strategy & Governance:
- Define and implement enterprise-wide quality engineering strategy.
- Establish standards for testing, validation, and release readiness.
- Define and enforce Definition of Done (DoD) and quality gates.
- Automation-First Testing:
- Design and implement scalable automation frameworks (API and integration-first).
- Build reusable automated test suites for critical business workflows.
- Minimize reliance on manual testing through automation.
- Embed automated testing into Azure DevOps pipelines.
- Ensure testing is integrated into build and release workflows.
- Enable continuous testing practices across all teams.
- Integration & Data Quality:
- Validate cross-system integrations and data flows.
- Implement automated checks for data integrity and synchronization.
- Partner with Data team on data quality and validation strategy.
- Release Governance & Risk Management:
- Define release validation and QA sign-off processes.
- Lead defect tracking, triage, and root cause analysis.
- Ensure risk-based release decisions and production readiness.