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This leader drives engineering maturity by supportingstandards, AI-enabled quality engineering practices, software craftsmanship, test automation, engineering governance, performance engineering, developer productivity, and continuous improvement initiatives that improve software quality, delivery effectiveness, and customer outcomes.\nWorking closely with Product Engineering, Architecture, Platform Engineering, DevOps, Security, Data & AI, and Product Management, this role champions modern engineering practices that enable teams to build secure, scalable, reliable, and high-quality software.\nThe role supportsEngineering Excellence practicesby helping drivestandardization, automation, measurement, AI-assisted software engineering, and continuous improvement across the software development lifecycle.\nSummary of Responsibilities:\nSupport and execute Fortrea's Engineering Excellence and Quality Engineering strategy, roadmap, standards, governance model, and operating framework.\nBuild, lead, mentor, and develop high-performing Quality Engineering professionals while fostering technical growth, leadership development, succession planning, and continuous learning.\nSupport enterprise engineering excellence standards including software craftsmanship, coding standards, architecture reviews, pull request quality, secure coding practices, technical debt management, release readiness, and engineering governance.\nChampion Shift Left Engineering by embedding quality, security, accessibility, performance, reliability, and compliance practices throughout the software development lifecycle.\nDrive adoption of AI-assisted Quality Engineering practices including intelligent test generation, autonomous testing, automated test maintenance, defect prediction, release risk analysis, AI-assisted code reviews, and engineering automation.\nEvaluate emerging AI technologies that improve engineering productivity, software quality, release confidence, developer experience, and customer satisfaction.\nSupport enterprise standards for Responsible AI testing, validation, governance, and quality assurance for AI-enabled products and intelligent software solutions.\nSupport testing practices across unit, integration, API, contract, UI, end-to-end, performance, resilience, security, accessibility, regression, and user acceptance testing.\nPartner with Platform Engineering and DevOps teams to embed automated quality gates, testing frameworks, compliance validation, security controls, and Quality as Code practices into CI/CD pipelines.\nSupport quality, reliability, performance, observability, and production readiness practices that improve software delivery outcomes.\nUse engineering metrics, quality indicators, defect trends, test coverage, release quality, and operational performance data to identify improvement opportunities.\nPerform quality benchmarking, root cause analysis, trend analysis, defect prevention, engineering maturity assessments, and continuous improvement initiatives.\nProvide guidance to engineering teams and technical leaders on software craftsmanship, engineering excellence, testing strategy, AI-assisted engineering, and modern software development practices.\nSupport engineering Communities of Practice (CoPs) that promote technical standards, knowledge sharing, innovation, mentoring, and continuous improvement.\nPartner with Product Engineering, Architecture, Platform Engineering, DevOps, Security, Infrastructure, and Product Management to improve engineering maturity.\nSupport software validation and regulatory compliance activities for highly regulated healthcare and life sciences solutions.\nContinuously evaluate emerging engineering tools, AI platforms, automation technologies, testing frameworks, and software engineering practices that improve software delivery and engineering effectiveness.\nSupport team capacity planning, resource planning, tooling needs, vendor coordination, and quality improvement initiatives.\nFoster a culture centered on ownership, software craftsmanship, quality, innovation, collaboration, accountability, continuous learning, and engineering excellence.\nPerform other duties as assigned.\nQualifications (Minimum Required):\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or related discipline. Equivalent experience will be considered.\nStrong understanding of modern software engineering, Agile delivery, Engineering Excellence, DevOps, CI/CD, Platform Engineering, and Quality Engineering principles.\nDeep knowledge of enterprise test automation, software quality practices, engineering governance, software craftsmanship, and engineering maturity frameworks.\nExperience with automated testing, Quality as Code, engineering automation, Shift Left Engineering, and modern software delivery methodologies.\nStrong understanding of cloud-native architectures, distributed systems, performance engineering, observability, resilience engineering, and operational excellence.\nStrong leadership, communication, facilitation, stakeholder management, organizational development, and influencing skills.\nDemonstrated ability to influence engineering organizations and technical leaders without direct authority.\nStrong analytical and data-driven decision-making skills focused on continuous improvement and engineering effectiveness.\nExperience (Minimum Required):\n8+ years of progressive experience in Software Engineering, Quality Engineering, DevOps, Platform Engineering, Software Architecture, or related engineering disciplines.\n3+ years leading Quality Engineering teams, Engineering Excellence programs, or engineering improvement initiatives.\nDemonstrated experience supporting Quality Engineering strategies, Engineering Excellence programs, or engineering improvement practices.\nProven success implementing test automation across multiple products, platforms, or engineering teams.\nExperience implementing AI-assisted software engineering and intelligent testing capabilities that improve engineering productivity and software quality.\nExperience supporting engineering standards, governance processes, software craftsmanship practices, release readiness criteria, and engineering maturity models.\nExperience implementing DORA Metrics, engineering productivity scorecards, software quality KPIs, and continuous improvement programs.\nExperience supporting performance engineering, resilience testing, production quality monitoring, and operational excellence initiatives.\nExperience partnering with Product Engineering, Platform Engineering, DevOps, Architecture, Security, and Data & AI teams.\nExperience supporting software validation, regulatory compliance, or highly regulated software environments.\nDemonstrated success supporting improvement initiatives focused on Engineering Excellence, Quality Engineering, or software delivery modernization.\nStrong experience utilizing engineering metrics, operational analytics, and quality data to improve engineering effectiveness and business outcomes.\nPreferred Qualifications Include:\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Engineering, or related discipline.\nExperience within healthcare, life sciences, clinical research, medical devices, or other highly regulated industries.\nExperience building Engineering Excellence organizations, Quality Engineering Centers of Excellence, or enterprise engineering transformation programs.\nExperience implementing AI-assisted software engineering using GitHub Copilot Enterprise, GitHub Models, Cursor, Claude Code, Windsurf, ChatGPT Enterprise, or similar developer productivity platforms.\nExperience implementing AI-powered Quality Engineering including intelligent test generation, autonomous testing, automated test maintenance, defect prediction, release risk analysis, AI-assisted code reviews, and engineering copilots.\nExperience validating AI-enabled software solutions including Large Language Models (LLMs), Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), AI agents, conversational AI, machine learning systems, and intelligent automation platforms.\nFamiliarity with Responsible AI principles, prompt engineering, AI governance, model evaluation, AI quality assurance, and AI security.\nExperience with modern testing 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