
Director, Quality Assurance
Fidelity Investments
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Westlake • Colorado • Kentucky • United States
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Salary
💰 $95,000 - $186,000 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
About the role
- Own the QA Strategy & Operating Model
- Design a risk-based quality framework aligned to business outcomes, client commitments, and regulatory expectations
- Define governance, entry/exit criteria, sign-off standards, and release readiness processes
- Establish methods that verify technical correctness and business integrity
- Create reference datasets, reasonableness checks, reconciliations, sampling strategies, and controls for complex client customizations
- Hire, mentor, and develop a high-performing QA team; create role definitions, career paths, and a culture of learning, empowerment, and clarity
- Drive adoption of automation, test data management, defect taxonomy, triage, and root-cause analysis
- Establish and track KPIs: defect escape rate, DRE, test coverage, UAT pass rate, cycle time, rework %, automation coverage, MTTR, and data quality scoring
- Collaborate with Workplace Consulting teams to ensure alignment on quality criteria and readiness
Requirements
- 10+ years in quality assurance or audit, including leading risk/quality assessments
- Demonstrated success building QA functions and transforming testing processes
- Experience in retirement plan administration or financial services strongly preferred
- BA/BS/MIS degree (or equivalent)
- Proven leadership across diverse teams and complex programs; strong communication, judgment, and stakeholder management
- Experience with automation tools , CI/CD-aligned testing, and data/ETL validation
- Comfortable in fast-paced, evolving environments; passionate about product quality , customer experience , and efficiency
- Jira (and Confluence) experience a plus
Benefits
- comprehensive health care coverage and emotional well-being support
- market-leading retirement
- generous paid time off and parental leave
- charitable giving employee match program
- educational assistance including student loan repayment, tuition reimbursement, and learning resources to develop your career
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
QA strategyrisk-based quality frameworkgovernancerelease readiness processestest data managementdefect taxonomyroot-cause analysisKPIsautomation coveragedata quality scoring
Soft Skills
leadershipmentoringcommunicationjudgmentstakeholder managementcollaborationempowermentclarityadaptabilitypassion for product quality
Certifications
BABSMIS degree