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We are seeking a Director, TestOps to build and lead testing as a platform capability. This leader will own test automation, test environments and data, integration testing, resilience validation, quality signals, and AI-assisted testing. The mission is to move testing from a manual phase owned independently by teams into an automated, federated, and measurable platform that enables safe continuous delivery. We are looking for a visionary quality-platform leader who has previously built and scaled comparable TestOps, test infrastructure, or continuous-quality systems in a leading global technology company.\nKey Responsibilities\nSet a bold vision for testing as a company-wide platform capability and translate that vision into an executable roadmap adopted across infrastructure and domain organizations.\nDefine and execute the TestOps strategy across Tech Infrastructure and partner engineering organizations.\nBuild a federated testing platform that supports infrastructure, platform, API, UI, integration, resilience, and release validation.\nCreate repeatable test capabilities for Unified Staging and production-like environments.\nPartner with Developer Platform, SRE, Observability, Security, and domain teams to embed quality gates into delivery workflows.\nOwn testing metrics including coverage, pass rate, escaped defects, flaky tests, execution time, environment readiness, and release confidence.\nDrive adoption through product management, customer enablement, documentation, office hours, and clear service-level objectives.\nTest Platform & Automation\nBuild self-service test planning, execution, orchestration, reporting, and evidence-management capabilities.\nAutomate UI, API, service integration, infrastructure integration, and end-to-end test execution.\nProvide reusable test harnesses, reference applications, simulators, mocks, and service-virtualization capabilities.\nIntegrate TestOps with CI/CD, Global CD, Application Registry, observability, and release governance.\nCreate quality gates that are risk-aware, fast, deterministic, and appropriate to service tiers.\nReduce flaky tests, duplicated frameworks, manual validation, and fragmented tooling.\nUnified Staging, Test Data & Resilience Validation\nUse Unified Staging as the default environment for validating Tech Infrastructure components and domain applications.\nBuild compliant, desensitized, production-like test data generation and lifecycle management.\nEnable integration testing across identity, mesh, networking, databases, queues, storage, observability, and application dependencies.\nPartner with SRE to automate fault injection, DR scenarios, failover validation, load testing, and reliability certification.\nEnsure validation evidence can feed release decisions, RBD/RBO certification, and executive reliability metrics.\nAI-Assisted Testing\nBuild AI-assisted capabilities for feature test-plan generation, test-case generation, test-data generation, execution, failure analysis, and defect triage.\nEstablish evaluation, safety, and quality mechanisms for AI-generated tests and recommendations.\nUse production telemetry and incident learnings to continuously improve test coverage and prioritize high-risk scenarios.\nAutomate quality insights and next-best-action recommendations for engineers and release owners.\nTalent Leadership & Organization\nLead managers, technical 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