Sr Director , QA

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Westlake, Texastime type:
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JR-019293

Sr Director , QA / Westlake 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 other 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. For more information, please visit  Role We are looking for a seasoned Senior Director of QA Engineering to join our Engineering team. With your focus on Dev Ops, continuous testing, and Shift-Left experience, you’ll be leading 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. You will lead with a Dev Ops mentality, and your focus will include key areas such as streamlined test automation, test data management, and CI/CD Integration for continuous testing as quality gates. You will be asked to provide recommendations into product architecture to ensure high quality and make recommendations on reliability, security, and performance of the product.

This position will report to the global VP of Quality Engineering and work across the Engineering and Product teams to establish a software quality assurance system that promotes customer satisfaction and positively impacts Solera’s financial performance.

The Team 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 also be collaborating with global QA peers covering other geographies and Centers of Excellence in North America and India. You’ll be overseeing dozens of products that cover single and multiple geographies and working with multiple stakeholders for these products spanning Engineering, Product Management, Customer Support, Dev Ops, and others.

What You’ll Do
· 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…