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Appspace

Senior Director of Software Quality Assurance

United States Remote · Director

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About the role

  • At Appspace, we're passionate about creating better work experiences for people everywhere, and we're looking for people that feel the same way. Our global office locations and flexible work culture help you work wherever and however you're at your best. Plus, we take the time to help you enjoy your work, build lasting connections, and grow your role. Join
  • the Appspace team and be a part of a culture that's helping people everywhere love where they work.

Responsibilities

  • As the Senior Director of Software Quality Assurance, you will own the strategy, organization, and culture of quality across Appspace's multi-product SaaS platform.
  • Define and own the enterprise QA strategy and multi-year quality roadmap across
  • Build, lead, mentor, and scale a globally distributed QA organization spanning manual, automation, and performance testing, working through QA managers and leads across multiple time zones.
  • Own the quality gate strategy within CI/CD pipelines - defining how automated tests are triggered, what constitutes a release blocker, and how quality signals are surfaced to engineering teams and leadership.
  • Champion a shift-left culture, partnering with product and engineering to embed quality practices, test design, and risk assessment early in the development lifecycle.
  • Own the QA budget, tooling investments, and vendor relationships, and make build-vs-buy decisions across the quality tooling landscape.
  • Recruit, develop, and retain top QA talent - setting career frameworks, performance standards, and a culture of continuous improvement across a global team.
  • Practical experience applying Generative AI tools (e.g., Claude, Cursor, GitHub Copilot) to accelerate test design, automation authoring, or result analysis.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills - able to produce clear strategy documents and executive-facing quality narratives.
  • Proven ability to lead technical discussions, drive alignment across engineering teams, and influence design decisions without direct authority.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent experience.
  • 10-15 years of experience in software quality engineering, with a significant track record in senior QA leadership roles managing managers and leads.
  • Strong command of performance and reliability testing tools and practices (e.g., JMeter, k6, Gatling, Locust) and the ability to define meaningful SLOs, SLAs, and error budgets.
  • Experience integrating quality gates into CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps) with sophisticated pass/fail logic and trend-based regression detection.
  • Experience defining and operationalizing quality metrics and KPIs, and reporting quality posture to executive leadership.
  • Working proficiency with test management and defect tracking tools (Jira, TestRail, Xray, Zephyr) and BDD practices (Cucumber, Gherkin).
  • Ability to operate effectively in a globally distributed team environment across time zones.
  • Experience establishing quality practices for AI-assisted development pipelines and evaluating the quality of AI-generated code.
  • Experience with cross-browser and real-device testing at scale (BrowserStack, Sauce Labs, LambdaTest, or AWS Device Farm).
  • Experience with observability and reliability practices - metrics, distributed tracing (OpenTelemetry), and dashboards (Grafana, Prometheus, Cloud Monitoring).

Compensation

  • Appspace is committed to equitable compensation practices and complies with all applicable local, state, and federal regulations.

Company info

  • About Appspace: At Appspace, we're passionate about creating better work experiences for people everywhere, and we're looking for people that feel the same way.
  • Join the Appspace team and be a part of a culture that's helping people everywhere love where they work.
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