Sr Director, Quality Engineering

Trans Core (TRN), a subsidiary of ST Engineering, is seeking a Sr. Director of Quality Engineering (BOS Product Group) to join our team in Germantown, Maryland or Union, New Jersey.

Position Summary:

The Sr. Director of Quality Engineering is responsible for leading the BOS Product Group Quality Engineering organization and establishing the people, processes, tools, and governance necessary to deliver high-quality software products. This executive leadership role is accountable for software quality outcomes across the BOS product portfolio and for building a high-performing quality engineering function that partners closely with Product Management, Engineering, Architecture, Operations, and Customer Support teams.

Salary Range: $175 - 225k, based upon qualifications and experience.

• Provide executive leadership for the BOS Quality Engineering organization, including strategy, staffing, performance, and capability development.
• Own software quality outcomes across the BOS product portfolio, including release readiness, defect reduction, test effectiveness, and customer-impacting quality metrics.
• Establish and advance quality engineering practices including test strategy, test automation, requirements traceability, release validation, defect prevention, and quality governance.
• Define and implement testing strategies and tools with emphasis on requirements management, test design, automation, continuous integration, performance testing, and security testing.
• Establish governance mechanisms that ensure consistent quality engineering practices, standards, processes, and metrics across BOS development teams.
• Establish quality KPIs and dashboards that provide visibility into defect trends, automation coverage, release quality, escape rates, and production issues.
• Monitor quality performance and drive corrective actions when results fall below established objectives.
• Lead root-cause analysis of significant quality issues and ensure corrective and preventive actions are implemented and measured.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives that improve product quality, engineering effectiveness, delivery predictability, and customer outcomes.
• Review customer-reported quality issues and recurring defect trends and prioritize improvement initiatives.
• Act as a change agent by fostering a culture where quality is a shared responsibility embedded throughout the software delivery lifecycle.

• Lead, develop, and mentor Quality Engineering managers, leads, and individual contributors.
• Establish organizational structure, workforce plans, succession strategies, and capability development programs for the Quality Engineering function.
• Recruit, retain, and develop top quality engineering talent.
• Foster a culture of accountability, continuous learning, innovation, and operational excellence.
• Manage departmental budgets, vendor relationships, and quality engineering tool investments.

• Reduction in escaped defects and customer-reported quality issues.
• Improvement in automated test coverage across the BOS product portfolio.
• Consistent achievement of release readiness and release quality objectives.
• Reduction in critical and high-severity production defects.
• Improved trend lines for defect resolution cycle time and root-cause remediation effectiveness.
• Adoption and consistent use of quality engineering standards and governance practices across BOS teams.
• Positive employee engagement, retention, and development outcomes within the Quality Engineering organization.
• Delivery of actionable quality metrics and executive reporting that supports business and technology decision-making.

• Demonstrated strategic and tactical leadership with a track record of delivering high-quality enterprise software solutions.
• 15+ years of progressive software engineering or quality engineering experience, including leadership of quality engineering organizations supporting enterprise software products.
• Experience leading managers and building high-performing, geographically distributed teams.
• Proven ability to influence cross-functional teams and lead organizational change…