Yum! Center for Global Franchise Excellence
Empowering communities to create and sustain generational wealth through franchising.
Director, Quality Engineering
Location
United States
Posted
19 days ago
Salary
$180.8K - $230K / year
Bachelor Degree8 yrs expEnglishAWSCloudDistributed SystemsKubernetesNode.jsType ScriptGo
Job Description
• Refine existing practices and implement new quality assurance practices across the organization to ensure the highest quality deliverables reach our consumers.
• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of onshore and nearshore quality engineers.
• Define and track key KPIs and quality metrics to evaluate system health, test coverage, and automation ROI.
• Drive root cause analysis of production issues using observability tools such as DataDog, ensuring continuous system stability.
• Guide the implementation and evolution of test automation frameworks for API, Web, and Mobile platforms.
• Collaborate with development and DevOps teams to optimize performance and quality in a cloud-native infrastructure.
• Maintain a strong partnership with product and engineering leadership to align quality efforts with business goals.
• Stay current on emerging technologies and industry best practices in quality engineering, DevOps, and cloud architecture.
Job Requirements
- 8+ years of proven experience leading distributed quality engineering teams, with a focus on strong focus on test automation.
- At minimum bachelor’s in CS, CIS, engineering, or equivalent experience
- Strong Computer Science fundamental knowledge including data structure and algorithms, system design.
- Experience with NodeJS, Typescript, and Golang preferred.
- Deep technical knowledge of code first test automation tools (e.g., Playwright, Appium, WebdriverIO, BrowserStack)
- Extensive hands-on experience with AWS cloud services and Kubernetes, including monitoring, scaling, and troubleshooting.
- Excellent grasp of CI/CD pipelines, with the ability to integrate automated testing into deployment workflows.
- Experience with observability, monitoring, and logging best practices in distributed systems.
- Strong communication, leadership, and stakeholder management skills.
Benefits
- Employees (and their eligible family members) may enroll in the following types of insurance coverage: medical, dental, vision, legal, and accidental death and dismemberment, as well as FSA/HSA (depending on enrolled medical plan).
- Yum! also provides short-term disability, long-term disability, and life insurance.
- Employees may enroll in our 401(k) plan.
- Yum! provides 4 weeks of vacation, paid sick leave, 10 paid holidays, a floating day off and 2 paid days for volunteer time each calendar year.
