Sr Director , QA

who we are

solera is a global leader in data and software services that strives to transform every touchpoint of the vehicle lifecycle into a connected digital experience. In addition, we provide products and services to protect life’s most important assets: our homes and digital identities. Today, solera processes over 300 million digital transactions annually for approximately 235,000 partners and customers in more than 90 countries.

Our 6,500 team members foster an uncommon, innovative culture and are dedicated to successfully bringing the future to bear today through cognitive answers, insights, algorithms, and automation.

we are looking for a seasoned senior director of qa engineering to join our engineering team. With a focus on devops, continuous testing, and shift‑left experience, you will lead a team of talented qa engineers in the design, development, and delivery of automation test frameworks for our software platforms. You will guide the team and leverage existing test automation infrastructure to build reusable automation artifacts suitable for iterative agile product delivery.

Your role will include streamlined test automation, test data management, and ci/cd integration for continuous testing as quality gates. You will provide recommendations into product architecture to ensure high quality and make recommendations on reliability, security, and performance of the product. This position reports to the global vp of quality engineering and works across engineering and product teams to establish a software quality assurance system that promotes customer satisfaction and positively impacts solera’s financial performance.

this position governs a major branch in a globally centralized qa organization, managing a team of 100+ engineers spread geographically across multiple countries. You’ll collaborate with global qa peers covering other geographies and centers of excellence in north america and india, oversee dozens of products that cover single and multiple geographies, and work with multiple stakeholders spanning engineering, product management, customer support, devops, and others.

• responsible for defining and governing enterprise qa strategy, organizational structure, delivery model, and multi‑product execution.
• define the qa operating model, organizational design, and leadership structure to enable scale, efficiency, and high‑quality delivery across multiple product portfolios.
• define enterprise qa processes, governance, standards, and quality gates integrated into ci/cd and release engineering.
• define and govern enterprise qa operating models across multiple products, platforms, and business domains.
• champion and operationalize enterprise ai/ml‑driven quality platforms to accelerate automation, predict risk, and optimize delivery cycles. Lead organizational readiness for ai‑first quality engineering transformation.
• drive cross‑portfolio quality transformation initiatives, including modernization of tooling, frameworks, automation, and test data platforms.
• establish enterprise‑wide quality kpis, dashboards, and health metrics to drive data‑driven decisions at executive levels.
• synthesize and communicate executive‑level quality insights, risks, and readiness assessments to senior leadership.
• partner with product, architecture, security, and engineering vps to align quality strategy with business goals and technology roadmap.
• provide strategic oversight and direction for enterprise automation and testing platforms; ensure architectural alignment and long‑term technology choices.
• think strategically to help drive features and services for short and long‑term growth.
• provide organizational leadership across the full sdlc, ensuring quality is embedded from product conception through deployment and production monitoring.
• bring a can‑do attitude, high energy, and effectiveness at managing relationships (up, down, across).
• serve as the executive qa leader partnering with engineering, product, sre, and architecture leaders to influence product quality and release strategy.
• own enterprise quality risk management, escalation frameworks, and cross‑product dependency…