Key skills
AICI/CDLeadershipCollaboration
About this role
Role Overview
- Drive modern quality engineering practices by embedding continuous validation into delivery pipelines and reducing reliance on late-stage testing.
- Improve automation reliability, signal quality, and maintainability so teams can act on results with confidence.
- Introduce practical AI-enabled and data-driven approaches to testing, analysis, and engineering decision support.
- Identify and remove systemic constraints such as unstable environments, test data limitations, and unclear pipeline failure signals.
- Create reusable patterns, reference approaches, and technical guidance that can scale across teams.
- Provide technical leadership through credibility, collaboration, and deep engineering expertise rather than organizational authority.
Requirements
- Typically 15+ years of experience in Quality Engineering, SDET, or Software Engineering.
- Proven success improving how teams build, test, and release software on a scale.
- Deep hands-on understanding of automation, CI/CD, and modern engineering practices.
- Ability to influence across teams and functions without direct authority.
- Comfort operating with both technical depth and enterprise-wide systems thinking.
- Experience introducing smarter, more automated, or AI-enabled approaches to testing and delivery is a plus.
- Experience in environments where stability, control, and reliability are critical is preferred.
- Higher level education such as a Masters degree, or PhD is desirable.
- Specific certifications are often required. In lieu of a degree, a comparable combination of education, job specific certification(s), and experience (including military service) may be considered.
Benefits
- medical/prescription drug coverage (with a Health Savings Account feature)
- dental and vision options
- employee and spouse/child life insurance
- short and long-term disability protection
- 401(k) with PNC match
- pension and stock purchase plans
- dependent care reimbursement account
- back-up child/elder care
- adoption, surrogacy, and doula reimbursement
- educational assistance, including select programs fully paid
- a robust wellness program with financial incentives
- maternity and/or parental leave
- up to 11 paid holidays each year
- 9 occasional absence days each year, unless otherwise required by law
- between 15 to 25 vacation days each year, depending on career level; and years of service