National Manager - Center Quality Engineering Leader

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Collaborative. Respectful. A place to dream and do. These are just a few words that describe what life is like  one of the world’s most admired brands, Toyota is growing and leading the future of mobility through innovative, high-quality solutions designed to enhance lives and delight those we serve. We’re looking for talented team members who want to Dream. Do. Grow.

with us. An important part of the Toyota family is Toyota Financial Services (TFS), the finance and insurance brand for Toyota and Lexus in North America. While TFS is a separate business entity, it is an essential part of this world-changing company- delivering on Toyota's vision to move people beyond what's possible. At TFS, you will help create best-in-class customer experience in an innovative, collaborative environment.

Toyota does not offer support or sponsorship of job applicants for employment-based visas or any other work authorization for this role now or in the future. You must have the right to work in the United States and not require Toyota support or sponsorship for immigration-related employment (e.g., H-1B, O-1, E-3, H-1B1, TN, F-1 OPT, F-1 STEM OPT, F-1 CPT, ‘job flexibility benefits’ [also known as I-140 or Adjustment of Status portability], etc.)

now or in the future. You should not apply for this role if you will require Toyota to assist with immigration support or sponsorship now or in the future.

This position is based in Plano, TX.

An important part of the Toyota family is Toyota Financial Services (TFS), the finance and insurance brand for Toyota and Lexus in North America. While TFS is a separate business entity, it is an essential part of this world-changing company – delivering on Toyota’s vision to move people beyond what’s possible. At TFS, you will help create best-in-class customer experiences in an innovative, collaborative environment.

The Director of Quality Engineering will be responsible for owning the enterprise testing strategy and engineering from execution-focused testing to a proactive, risk-based quality strategy across SLDC and AI DLC.

• Define and drive the overall testing and quality engineering strategy across products and platforms at Toyota Financial Services.
• Establish enterprise testing best practices and standards that align with the new Agile Delivery model and ensure they are followed across the domains.
• Shift Testing left, embedding quality throughout design, development, deployment, and operations.
• Define the right balance of automated, manual, integration, performance, security, resilience, and production testing.
• Collaborate with the Product and Platform teams to ensure a stable test environment for enterprise-level execution.
• Explore and help roll out a test data management solution for test data generation and reservation.
• Create a test release coordination plan with the domains to limit test downtime during core testing hours.
• Standardize and roll out the model for Scenario Validation Testing (SVT) and End-to-End (E2E) Testing at the enterprise level.
• Work with the Test Lead in each domain to thoroughly assess the maturity and business need for test automation.
• Collaborate with the Domain Owner/Product Owner/Tech Lead/Test Lead to develop a test automation roadmap for the domain, considering critical applications, frequency of deployments, etc.
• Develop a method of capturing test automation return on investment (ROI) and monitor test fit to ensure execution efficiency.
• Manage the Enterprise Testing Horizontal Team budgets to ensure fiscal responsibilities.

• Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant focus area.
• Progressive experience developing testing best practices and standards for both…