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National Education Association · 1 week ago

Associate Director of Enterprise Systems & Quality Assurance

Washington, DC

Full-time

Hybrid

Lead/Staff, Director/Executive

$204K/yr - $219K/yr

10+ years exp

The National Education Association (NEA) is America’s oldest and largest organization committed to promoting public education, with approximately 3 million members. They are seeking an Associate Director of Enterprise Systems & Quality Assurance to lead a diverse team in the development and support of custom applications to meet the association's business goals, while driving digital transformation and modernizing their development stack.

Education

Work & Life Balance

Responsibilities

Oversee the planning, development, and implementation of software solutions in alignment with the business and programmatic goals of the organization

Ensure adherence to coding standards, architectural principles, and best practices in software engineering

Collaborate with product management to translate business requirements into technical solutions

Understand technical debt and make continuous improvements to address technical debt aligned with our technical goals and digital transformation initiatives

Oversee release management, providing efficiencies and improvements to current release process, including risk and change management

Lead QA teams in implementing automated and manual testing methodologies to ensure software quality

Define testing strategies, performance benchmarks, and validation processes

Drive continuous improvements in test coverage, defect tracking, and resolution workflows

Support Agile Scrum processes, ensuring efficient sprint planning, execution, and retrospectives

Work closely with cross-functional teams to refine workflows and accelerate development cycles

Mentor and develop team members, promoting skill growth and career advancement

Foster a collaborative and high-performance team culture

Perform Annual Performance Review Process for Employees

Ensure team members are allocated properly to meet NEA and CIT goals

Work with cross-departmental teams to align development efforts with NEA strategic goals

Communicate technical strategies, challenges, and solutions effectively across departments

Identify and implement process improvements in development and testing to enhance productivity and software quality

Evaluate and integrate modern tools and technologies for software development and QA

Design and implement comprehensive logging systems across all applications and platforms

Advocate for and implement industry-leading best practices in Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) to optimize development efficiency, enhance software quality, and accelerate delivery cycles

Support forward progression and standardization of CICD pipelines, automating testing (unit, regression, etc.), security scans and providing efficiencies across development teams

Qualification

Agile developmentCI/CD pipelinesDevSecOps principlesJava.NETSalesforceMuleSoftSQLAutomation testingCloud migrationTeam managementCommunication skillsProblem-solvingInterpersonal skills