Associate Director (Hands on experience with Java coding required)

Essential Job Functions:
The associate director is generally autonomous in their oversight and active management of staff (3 to 8 approximately).

• Contribute to the establishment, evolution and continued compliance with standard development and quality assurance practices and processes.
• Effectively communicates testing activities, program risks and issues in oral and written formats.
• Provides leadership in technology and quality assurance best practices
• Contribute to and implement enterprise automation test strategies and plans.
• Participate in application architecture and infrastructure discussions to raise quality and testability concerns.
• Directly manage and/or influence separate teams focused on delivering high-quality results within the quality assurance discipline.
• Identify and hire resources/skills needed within their organization.
• Responsible for staff performance management, training & development (e.g, disciplinary)
• Champion the collaborative resolution of defects including root cause analysis of production incidents.

Required Skills

• Must be self-directed, detail-oriented and have excellent written & oral communication skills.
• Solid understanding in computer science fundamentals - algorithm design, problem-solving, complexity analysis, and data structures.
• Excellent understanding of the testing process, test types, test design, and testing methodologies.
• Expert experience with a functional or performance or security or DevOps test tools.
• Demonstrable experience with cloud-related technologies.
• Should be well-organized, thorough, and able to handle competing priorities.
• Ability to maintain focus and develop proficiency in new skills rapidly.

Preferred( 2 or more skills)

• n-tier applications (e.g.: Angular, REST service, Java-EE, etc.)
• testing tools, frameworks and libraries. (e.g.: Selenium Web Driver, Protractor, Gatling, JMeter, Jasmine & Karma, REST Assured, JUnit, Scala test, etc.)
• data ingestion, transformation, analytics, decision-making skills, etc.
• DevOps, application engineering (e.g.: Ansible, AWS CloudFormation, etc.)
• build, deployment and monitoring tools. (e.g.: Maven, Jenkins, AWS code deploy, Splunk, Black Duck, CloudPassage, etc.)
• app security (e.g.: threat modeling, static code analysis, penetration testing, etc.)

Education/Experience Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering/other STEM degree
• 7 years of hands on software development and/or test automation or the equivalent combination of training and experience. (or) Master's with 5 yrs.
• 2 years supervisory/management experience