Director of AI Automation (Remote Opportunity)

VetsEZ is seeking a Technical Director of Quality Assurance to support the Department of Veterans Affairs. This product line manages various software products, middleware platforms, system integrations, health data integrations, and Electronic Health Records (EHR) integrations.

The candidate must reside within the continental US.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the enterprise Test Automation and Quality Engineering strategy across multiple products, platforms, and delivery teams
• Establish testing standards, governance frameworks, quality metrics, and best practices to ensure consistent software quality across the organization
• Establish key quality indicators (KQIs), KPIs, dashboards, and executive reporting to measure software quality, test effectiveness, release readiness, and operational risk
• Align quality engineering roadmaps with product, technology, and business objectives
• Serve as the executive escalation point for critical quality issues, driving root-cause analysis, risk mitigation, and corrective actions across programs
• Lead and mentor QA managers, test leads, automation engineers, and quality engineering teams, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and innovation
• Partner with executive leadership, product management, engineering, and business stakeholders to align quality objectives with organizational goals
• Collaborate with enterprise architects and engineering leaders to improve testability, observability, and quality throughout the software development lifecycle
• Oversee the design, implementation, and evolution of scalable test automation frameworks supporting web, API, middleware, data, cloud, and AI-enabled applications
• Drive integration of automated testing, quality gates, and AI evaluation capabilities within CI/CD and DevSecOps pipelines
• Provide strategic oversight for functional, integration, performance, accessibility, security, and regression testing initiatives
• Guide adoption of cloud-nativ