Director of API Quality Engineering

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We are FIS. Our technology powers the world’s economy and our teams bring innovation to life. We champion diversity to deliver the best products and solutions for our colleagues, clients and communities. If you’re ready to start learning, growing and making an impact with a career in fintech, we’d like to know: Are you FIS?

As the Director of Quality Engineering for FIS Digital Platform directs the quality assurance engineering team. This role develops, publishes, and provides governance related to testing standards and procedures within the Digital Platform group. In this role, you will head the test engineering team members who are aligned to agile teams and are responsible for automating test cases which provide test coverage for FIS’ Digital Platform APIs and back-end processes.

The Director of Quality Assurance Engineering is responsible for ensuring compliance with company policies, regulations, governance requirements, functional, and non-functional requirements for a given project. Additionally, this role is responsible for the creation and enforcement of quality standards specific to the Digital Platform organization.

This role reports directly to the Vice President of API Engineering.

Key Responsibilities

• Ownership of test platforms/environments and test data needs.

• Interacting with CI/CD teams to ensure proper gates are in place.

• Manage performance, security, OSS, and compliance testing practices working with engineering and operations teams to continuously improve the software delivery cycle.

• Participate in the career development of other team members, providing mentoring on new technologies and complex issues, and helping managers guide career growth for team members.

• Manage vendor relationships related to test tooling.

Base Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field.

• 8 years of experience in leading engineering quality assurance teams.

• Demonstrated ability to coordinate activities across cross-functional teams, negotiate complex situations, and generate successful outcomes for teams.

• Advanced knowledge of full SDLC and test automation best practices for large scale API-based software products, with focus on CI/CD practices and automated testing.

Preferred Qualifications

• Banking domain experience

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EEOC Statement

FIS is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, genetic information, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other protected characteristics. The EEO is the Law poster is available here supplement document available here

For positions located in the US, the following conditions apply. If you are made a conditional offer of employment, you will be required to undergo a drug test. ADA Disclaimer: In developing this job description care was taken to include all competencies needed to successfully perform in this position. However, for Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) purposes, the essential functions of the job may or may not have been described for purposes of ADA reasonable accommodation. All reasonable accommodation requests will be reviewed and evaluated on a case-by-case basis.

Sourcing Model

Recruitment at FIS works primarily on a direct sourcing model; a relatively small portion of our hiring is through recruitment agencies. FIS does not accept resumes from recruitment agencies which are not on the preferred supplier list and is not responsible for any related fees for resumes submitted to job postings, our employees, or any other part of our company.

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