Director, SDET

About the Role:

The Director of SDET is a pivotal role blending strong technical depth with strategic and people leadership. 

You will own the quality engineering vision for the organization, mentor the next generation of SDET managers and leads, and champion the adoption of AI-driven tools and practices to modernize how the organization builds, tests, and ships software.

Responsibilities:

Quality Strategy & Architecture:

• Own the end-to-end quality engineering vision, strategy, and roadmap across multiple product lines or business units
• Establish quality gates, release readiness criteria, and CI/CD processes
• Drive a "shift-left, shift-right" quality culture — embedding testability into design reviews and using production observability to close the loop
• Conduct architectural reviews across new and existing products to proactively surface scalability, reliability, and performance risks
• Evaluate and select tooling, frameworks, and platforms (open-source and commercial) that scale automation across teams

AI Adoption:

• Lead the org's AI adoption strategy for quality engineering — building or integrating AI/ML-based testing tools to improve coverage, productivity, and defect prediction
• Continuously evaluate and leverage AI for all aspects of Quality Engineering ensuring quality strategy keeps pace with how product is built

Stakeholder & People Leadership:

• Partner with Engineering, Product, DevOps, and Security leadership to align quality goals with business and release objectives
• Provide regular quality updates, metrics, and strategic recommendations to executive leadership
• Define, set up, and monitor key quality and productivity metrics (KPIs/OKRs)
• Lead succession planning and mentor SDET Managers and Leads to build the next layer of quality leadership