Sr Director, Quality Engineering

**TransCore (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. **Essential Duties and Responsibilities** include the following. Other duties may be assigned. - 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. **Leadership & Talent Development:** - 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. **Measure of Success:** - 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. **Qualifications:** - Demonstrated strategic and tactical leadership with a track record of delivering high-quality enterprise software solutions. - 15+ years of progressive…