Associate Dir, Software Test

Provides System Quality leadership for complex technology solutions within IQVIAs PASS team. (Patient Access and Affordability Services). Leads quality strategy planning and execution while partnering closely with Development Business Analysis testing teams and cross-functional partners to drive end-to-end quality outcomes across integrated systems.

This role requires a strong systems-thinking and AI-forward mindset with the ability to understand upstream/downstream impacts operate fluidly across System Quality priorities and leverage emerging technologies to continuously improve how Quality operates.

Essential Functions

• Leads quality strategy planning and execution for complex applications and integrated solutions.
• Leads coaches and develops a team of QA resources including onshore and offshore team members.
• Supports resource planning and enables QA talent to flex across System Quality priorities based on business need risk and capacity
• Defines risk-based test strategies test plans coverage and release-readiness criteria.
• Evaluates changes through an end-to-end systems lens identifying integration points dependencies downstream impacts and quality risks beyond the immediate application.
• Drives integration regression and end-to-end testing across systems and business workflows.
• Provides quality oversight across multiple initiatives proactively identifying and escalating delivery capacity and quality risks.
• Establishes and evolves QA standards processes metrics tools and ways of working.
• Uses defects root-cause trends and quality measures to drive continuous improvement and prevent recurring issues.
• Brings an AI-forward and technology-first mindset actively identifying opportunities to apply AI automation and emerging technologies to improve QA efficiency coverage speed traceability and decision-making.
• Serves as a senior Quality partner who influences decisions challenges ambiguity and helps teams make informed trade-offs between scope speed risk and quality.

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Systems Engineering or related field or equivalent experience.
• 8 years of progressive experience in software quality assurance testing or technology delivery.
• Strong understanding of system integration APIs data flows regression and end-to-end testing.
• Experience leading and developing QA professionals across distributed teams.
• Strong systems thinking problem-solving stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Ability to operate across multiple technologies and business domains and quickly develop an understanding of unfamiliar systems.

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