Director, Quality Engineering

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Illinois, +4 more states.

📋 Description

• Lead the Test Data Management (TDM) function for the Enterprise Quality Engineering team.

• Develop and implement the TDM strategy, operating model, and organizational growth plans.

• Assemble, guide, and nurture a high-performing team composed of managers, engineers, and test data specialists.

• Supervise a distributed team of over 50 associates.

• Collaborate with teams across Quality Engineering, Engineering, Product, Architecture, DevOps, Infrastructure, Security, Privacy, Risk, and Data.

• Manage test data provisioning, synthetic data generation, data masking, obfuscation, de-identification, data quality enablement, automation, lifecycle management, and environment coordination.

• Ensure that test data is secure, scalable, compliant, accessible, and suitable for its intended use.

• Support various testing methodologies including functional, integration, regression, end-to-end, and non-production validation testing.

• Promote AI-driven and automation-first TDM strategies.

• Integrate TDM automation with CI/CD and engineering workflows.

• Modernize TDM tools, workflows, and reusable patterns.

• Establish and enforce TDM standards, governance, operational policies, privacy controls, security measures, and audit readiness.

• Set standards for the secure handling of production-like data within test environments.

• Empower delivery teams with timely, compliant, and high-quality test data services.

• Coordinate environments and shared services to minimize data setup, refresh, and availability delays.

• Define and track KPIs for test data availability, provisioning speed, automation adoption, compliance, data quality, and operational efficiency.

• Foster continuous improvement and develop maturity roadmaps.

• Provide reporting and operational insights to senior leadership and stakeholders.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related technology field, or equivalent experience.

• Over 10 years of experience in quality engineering, test data management, data engineering, software engineering, or similar technical areas.

• More than 5 years of leadership experience managing technology teams at an enterprise scale, including managers and geographically distributed associates.

• Proven experience in leading or scaling TDM, data engineering, or quality engineering functions within a large enterprise setting.

• Demonstrated ability to build and manage secure, scalable, and compliant test data solutions.

• Experience in data provisioning, masking, obfuscation, de-identification, synthetic data generation, and lifecycle management.

• Strong knowledge of privacy, security, and compliance considerations for test data in regulated environments.

• Experience in driving automation and modernizing processes across engineering or quality workflows.

• Excellent stakeholder management and executive communication skills.

• Familiarity with Agile and DevOps methodologies and supporting modern software delivery practices.

• Preferred: experience in healthcare, payer/insurance, or other highly regulated industries.

• Preferred: experience in supporting enterprise quality engineering or platform enablement organizations.

• Preferred: knowledge of test data management platforms, masking tools, synthetic data solutions, and data quality tooling.

• Preferred: familiarity with cloud platforms, distributed systems, APIs, CI/CD pipelines, and enterprise engineering platforms.

• Preferred: experience leveraging AI or machine learning capabilities for test data, quality engineering, or operational optimization.

• Preferred: understanding of data governance, data retention, and environment management practices in large-scale enterprises.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus incentive plan based on individual and/or company performance.

• Medical benefits.

• Dental benefits.

• Vision benefits.

• 401(k) retirement savings plan.

• Paid time off.

• Company holidays.

• Personal holidays.

• Paid parental leave.

• Paid caregiver leave.

• Short-term disability.

• Long-term disability.

• Life insurance.

• Work-from-home arrangement.

• Occasional travel to Humana offices for training or meetings.