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HHAeXchange is the leading technology platform for home and community-based care. Founded in 2008, HHAeXchange was born out of an idea to create a fully comprehensive end-to-end homecare solution to help people who are aging or have disabilities thrive in their homes and communities. Our employees are passionate about transforming the healthcare space by building the only homecare ecosystem that fully connects patients, personal care providers, managed care organizations, and states.
The Director, Quality Engineering will lead the enterprise-wide quality strategy and Quality Assurance (QA) program across HHAeXchange. This role is responsible for standardizing testing processes and tools, driving test automation, and ensuring our products meet high standards for reliability, performance, security, and accessibility. The Director, Quality Engineering will oversee functional and non-functional testing practices, including accessibility (WCAG) and security-related validation, and will own processes that support customer User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential job duty satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
This is a fully remote opportunity for candidates located in the EST or CST time zones within the US only.
Essential Job Duties
- Enterprise Quality Leadership: Develop, implement, and lead the overall quality strategy and QA operating model across the organization.
- Standardize Testing Processes: Define and enforce consistent testing approaches including test planning, test cases, regression strategy, and release readiness criteria.
- Tooling Ownership: Select, implement, and manage enterprise testing tools for test management, automation, performance, accessibility, and security validation.
- Automation Strategy: Drive increased automated test coverage across UI, API, mobile, and services, reducing reliance on manual regression testing.
- Compliance, Accessibility & VPAT Reporting:
- Lead accessibility testing programs aligned to WCAG 2.1+
- Oversee creation and maintenance of Voluntary Product Accessibility Templates (VPATs) and Accessibility Conformance Reports
- Partner with Product, Legal, and Compliance to respond to customer accessibility requirements and audits
- Security & Compliance Testing Support: Coordinate with Security teams on SAST/DAST, vulnerability validation, and remediation tracking.
- Customer UAT Support:
- Define and support customer UAT strategies and environments
- Provide test plans, data guidance, and defect triage support during customer acceptance testing cycles
- Ensure feedback from UAT informs release decisions and product quality improvements
- Quality Metrics & Reporting: Establish KPIs to measure product quality, defect escape rate, automation coverage, UAT outcomes, and release readiness; communicate results to leadership.
- Shift-Left Quality Practices: Embed quality earlier in the development lifecycle through collaboration on requirements, acceptance criteria, and CI/CD integration.
- Incident & Defect Management: Oversee defect triage for high-priority production and pre-production issues and ensure timely resolution and root-cause prevention.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with Product Management, Engineering, DevOps, Security, and Compliance to ensure alignment of quality practices across releases.
- Organizational Leadership: Build, mentor, and lead a high-performing team of QA engineers, SDETs, automation engineers, and accessibility/compliance testers.
- Continuous Improvement: Identify quality gaps and drive process improvements that improve product reliability, reduce rework, and increase delivery confidence.
- Release Governance: Participate in release readiness reviews and serve as a key stakeholder in go/no-go decisions.
- Coding agent advocacy: Help onboard team members to AI development tools. Share techniques, prompt patterns, and review practices that make AI-augmented development effective and safe in a regulated environment.
Other Job Duties
- Other duties as assigned by supervisor or HHAeXchange leader.
Travel Requirements
- Travel up to 10%, including overnight travel
Required Education, Experience, Certifications and Skills
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field required.
- 10+ years of experience in software engineering within a software product company, with a focus on developing scalable, high-performance systems.
- 4+ years leading QA organizations or enterprise quality programs.
- Proven experience designing and implementing standardized QA processes and test automation strategies in SaaS environments.
- Hands-on experience implementing automated testing frameworks integrated into CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience with accessibility testing and standards such as WCAG 2.1+ and authoring VPATs/ACRs.
- Experience supporting security testing practices such as vulnerability scanning, SAST/DAST, and penetration test remediation validation.
- Experience supporting or running customer UAT processes.
- Strong understanding of quality metrics (defect rates, coverage, MTTR, escape rate, etc.) and how to operationalize them.
- Background working in cloud-based architectures and microservices environments.
- Demonstrated success collaborating across engineering, product, and security teams in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong leadership skills with experience managing and developing QA and automation teams.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to communicate complex topics to technical and non-technical partners.
- AI/ML fundamentals: Familiarity with LLM APIs, prompt engineering, and how generative AI can be applied in a product context. Direct project experience preferred.
We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.
HHAeXchange is the leading technology platform for home and community-based care. Founded in 2008, HHAeXchange was born out of an idea to create a fully comprehensive end-to-end homecare solution to help people who are aging or have disabilities thrive in their homes and communities. Our employees are passionate about transforming the healthcare space by building the only homecare ecosystem that fully connects patients, personal care providers, managed care organizations, and states.
The Director, Quality Engineering will lead the enterprise-wide quality strategy and Quality Assurance (QA) program across HHAeXchange. This role is responsible for standardizing testing processes and tools, driving test automation, and ensuring our products meet high standards for reliability, performance, security, and accessibility. The Director, Quality Engineering will oversee functional and non-functional testing practices, including accessibility (WCAG) and security-related validation, and will own processes that support customer User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential job duty satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
This is a fully remote opportunity for candidates located in the EST or CST time zones within the US only.
Essential Job Duties
- Enterprise Quality Leadership: Develop, implement, and lead the overall quality strategy and QA operating model across the organization.
- Standardize Testing Processes: Define and enforce consistent testing approaches including test planning, test cases, regression strategy, and release readiness criteria.
- Tooling Ownership: Select, implement, and manage enterprise testing tools for test management, automation, performance, accessibility, and security validation.
- Automation Strategy: Drive increased automated test coverage across UI, API, mobile, and services, reducing reliance on manual regression testing.
- Compliance, Accessibility & VPAT Reporting:
- Lead accessibility testing programs aligned to WCAG 2.1+
- Oversee creation and maintenance of Voluntary Product Accessibility Templates (VPATs) and Accessibility Conformance Reports
- Partner with Product, Legal, and Compliance to respond to customer accessibility requirements and audits
- Security & Compliance Testing Support: Coordinate with Security teams on SAST/DAST, vulnerability validation, and remediation tracking.
- Customer UAT Support:
- Define and support customer UAT strategies and environments
- Provide test plans, data guidance, and defect triage support during customer acceptance testing cycles
- Ensure feedback from UAT informs release decisions and product quality improvements
- Quality Metrics & Reporting: Establish KPIs to measure product quality, defect escape rate, automation coverage, UAT outcomes, and release readiness; communicate results to leadership.
- Shift-Left Quality Practices: Embed quality earlier in the development lifecycle through collaboration on requirements, acceptance criteria, and CI/CD integration.
- Incident & Defect Management: Oversee defect triage for high-priority production and pre-production issues and ensure timely resolution and root-cause prevention.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with Product Management, Engineering, DevOps, Security, and Compliance to ensure alignment of quality practices across releases.
- Organizational Leadership: Build, mentor, and lead a high-performing team of QA engineers, SDETs, automation engineers, and accessibility/compliance testers.
- Continuous Improvement: Identify quality gaps and drive process improvements that improve product reliability, reduce rework, and increase delivery confidence.
- Release Governance: Participate in release readiness reviews and serve as a key stakeholder in go/no-go decisions.
- Coding agent advocacy: Help onboard team members to AI development tools. Share techniques, prompt patterns, and review practices that make AI-augmented development effective and safe in a regulated environment.
Other Job Duties
- Other duties as assigned by supervisor or HHAeXchange leader.
Travel Requirements
- Travel up to 10%, including overnight travel
Required Education, Experience, Certifications and Skills
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field required.
- 10+ years of experience in software engineering within a software product company, with a focus on developing scalable, high-performance systems.
- 4+ years leading QA organizations or enterprise quality programs.
- Proven experience designing and implementing standardized QA processes and test automation strategies in SaaS environments.
- Hands-on experience implementing automated testing frameworks integrated into CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience with accessibility testing and standards such as WCAG 2.1+ and authoring VPATs/ACRs.
- Experience supporting security testing practices such as vulnerability scanning, SAST/DAST, and penetration test remediation validation.
- Experience supporting or running customer UAT processes.
- Strong understanding of quality metrics (defect rates, coverage, MTTR, escape rate, etc.) and how to operationalize them.
- Background working in cloud-based architectures and microservices environments.
- Demonstrated success collaborating across engineering, product, and security teams in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong leadership skills with experience managing and developing QA and automation teams.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to communicate complex topics to technical and non-technical partners.
- AI/ML fundamentals: Familiarity with LLM APIs, prompt engineering, and how generative AI can be applied in a product context. Direct project experience preferred.
We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.
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Who's Hiring
- Humana11
- Sanmina2
- d-Matrix2
- Owens & Minor2
- BLOX1
Top Industries Hiring
- Insurance
- Manufacturing
- Technology & Software
- Electronics & Hardware
- Distribution & Wholesale
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in director of quality engineering jobs.
- 7 or more years of quality engineering experience, including at least 3 in a leadership role
- Hands-on background with test automation frameworks such as Selenium, Cypress, or Appium
- Experience building or scaling QA organizations, including hiring and mentoring engineers
- Proficiency with CI/CD pipelines and integrating automated testing into deployment workflows
- Familiarity with Agile and Scrum methodologies and cross-functional collaboration with product and engineering
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related technical field
Tips for Your Director of Quality Engineering Job Search
Quantify quality outcomes on your resume
Hiring managers want to see defect reduction rates, release cycle improvements, and test coverage gains you drove, not just team sizes you managed. Lead each bullet with the measurable result before describing the initiative.
Align your resume to QA maturity stage
A startup hiring its first director of quality engineering wants someone who builds programs from scratch. An enterprise wants a process optimizer. Read the job description carefully and mirror its language around 'build' versus 'scale' or 'transform'.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists director of quality engineering openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Target companies at a quality inflection point
Organizations that just failed an audit, launched a new product line, or moved to continuous deployment often post this role urgently. Prioritizing those openings puts you in front of hiring managers with real budget and a concrete problem to solve.
Prepare a quality strategy presentation for interviews
Many director of quality engineering final rounds include a 30-60-90 day plan exercise. Prepare one that covers your first audit of existing test coverage, early wins you'd pursue, and how you'd communicate quality metrics to non-engineering stakeholders.
Negotiate scope alongside compensation
At the director level, what you own matters as much as pay. During offer discussions, clarify whether quality engineering includes embedded QA in product teams, a centralized function, or both, so you start with the right organizational authority.
Director of Quality Engineering Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most director of quality engineerings?
The companies hiring the most director of quality engineerings right now include Humana, Sanmina, and d-Matrix, with the largest share of openings in New York, California, and Massachusetts, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Technology, healthcare software, and financial services firms consistently account for the bulk of active postings.
How many director of quality engineering jobs are remote?
About 88% of director of quality engineering openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, reflecting strong demand for distributed leadership across the software industry. Roles focused on test automation strategy and QA tooling tend to be more remote-friendly than positions that require hands-on oversight of physical manufacturing or hardware quality processes.
How do you become a director of quality engineering?
Most directors of quality engineering start as individual-contributor QA engineers, then move into team lead or QA manager roles where they own testing strategy and people management. From there, building cross-functional credibility with product and engineering leadership is what opens the director track. Certifications in quality management and demonstrated experience reducing defect escape rates both strengthen your case for promotion or external hiring.
Can you get hired as a director of quality engineering with limited leadership experience?
It's possible if you've led quality initiatives informally, such as owning a testing framework migration or driving QA practices across a product team, without holding a formal management title. Emphasize the scope of what you influenced, the engineers you mentored, and the quality metrics you moved. Smaller companies and startups are more likely to hire a director of quality engineering who is making a first step into formal people leadership.
What does the director of quality engineering interview process look like?
Most director of quality engineering interview processes include an initial recruiter screen, a technical conversation about your automation experience and QA architecture decisions, a behavioral round focused on how you've built or restructured quality teams, and a final presentation where you outline how you'd approach the role in the first few months. Some employers also include a take-home case study on diagnosing a fictional team's quality gaps.
Where can I find and apply to director of quality engineering jobs?
You can find and apply to director of quality engineering jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States. Search for roles that match your background in test automation, QA leadership, or quality systems, then apply directly to each listing that fits.
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