Senior Director, Testing & Quality Engineering - Evinova
AstraZeneca1 day ago
Base Salary
$203k - $305k/yr
Responsibilities
- Consolidate testing teams across squads and products into a unified testing function.
- Establish the testing organization structure and Director-level leadership layer beneath the role.
- Define and enforce portfolio-wide GA-readiness, testability, and release-quality standards.
- Own the roadmap for automated functional testing, including framework, tooling, test pipeline, CI/CD, and coverage decisions.
- Establish requirements-to-test traceability infrastructure for GxP-regulated software.
- Build AI evaluation frameworks covering model regression testing, output validation, production monitoring, documentation, and human review checkpoints.
- Use AI tooling for automated test generation, coverage analysis, and AI-assisted quality workflows.
- Define quality metrics for automation coverage, defect trends, release quality, and AI evaluation outcomes.
- Partner with engineering, product, quality, and delivery teams to embed quality earlier and improve release confidence.
Requirements
- At least 8 years of experience in quality engineering, software engineering, or product engineering, including at least 3 years leading a quality or testing function at senior level.
- Demonstrated success building test automation programs from low maturity.
- Experience consolidating fragmented testing functions across multiple teams and supporting multiple products with competing priorities.
- Knowledge of GxP and requirements traceability in a regulated software environment.
- Hands-on experience with modern test automation frameworks and CI/CD integration.
- Experience defining or operating evaluation frameworks for AI/ML features in production, or a demonstrated record of building new technical practices from scratch.
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or Computer Science, or equivalent demonstrated through professional experience.
- Experience with electronic Clinical Outcome Assessments, patient-facing clinical trial software, or similar regulated health technology is desired.
- Hands-on experience with LLM evaluation frameworks, model monitoring, or agentic AI quality practices is desired.
- Familiarity with ALCOA+ data integrity principles and clinical research domain knowledge are desired.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement averaging a minimum of three days per week from the office, with individual flexibility.
- Short-term incentive bonus opportunity.
- Eligibility for an equity-based long-term incentive program for salaried roles.
- 401(k) plan, paid vacation and holidays, paid leaves, and medical, prescription drug, dental, and vision coverage.
- At-will employment; the position was posted on October 28, 2026, with a closing date of November 10, 2026.
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About AstraZeneca
AstraZeneca is a global biopharmaceutical company that discovers, develops, manufactures, and commercializes prescription medicines for patients and healthcare systems. Its portfolio spans oncology, cardiovascular, renal and metabolism, respiratory and immunology, and rare diseases (expanded by the 2021 acquisition of Alexion). Founded in 1999 and headquartered in Cambridge, UK, it is a public company listed on the London Stock Exchange and Nasdaq, generating revenue primarily from drug sales and partnerships.