Company Description

VERSANT (Nasdaq: VSNT) is an industry-changing media and entertainment business and home to trusted brands that shape culture, inform audiences, and build lasting connections. It operates across four core markets: political news and opinion, business news and personal finance, golf, and sports and genre entertainment. These markets are served through a powerful portfolio of iconic and innovative brands, including CNBC, MS NOW, USA Network, Golf Channel, Oxygen, E!, SYFY, and Versant's sports division USA Sports, along with complementary digital assets including Fandango, Rotten Tomatoes, GolfNow and GolfPass.

Job Description

Versant’s Software Engineering team provides core services to our business, underpinning our strategy and execution of linear & digital distribution of content, platforms, and data. As a leader of our engineering quality assurance team, you will have a direct role in defining our roadmap towards our future vision in the media landscape.

The Director, Quality Assurance role is a technology lead responsible for the implementation of testing behaviors and release management of VERSANT’s core platform ecosystem across data management, scheduling platforms, linear & digital distribution, and AI enriched automations and workflows.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Quality Assurance Roadmap Definition
Define and implement standards for test execution across service stack in critical business applications supporting public facing sites & apps, internal tools, and backend services.
Collaborate closely with Engineering & Product Management leadership to align on high level feature acceptance criteria, and provide guidance and leadership to SDET and QA Resources to adhere to test behaviors and needs for feature level tests as well as broader regression suites.
Review and approve testing patterns for use in test automation flows, and manage gating & CI/CD procedures for test approvals as part of broader release strategies.
Define standards and technology for automation frameworks and tooling, encompassing both UI and API related testing capabilities.
Team Leadership
Oversee and manage teams of QA and SDET engineering resources, delivering scalable and maintainable testing frameworks & supporting tooling to optimize our release processes and focus on automation.
Provide guidance to QA management and SDET resources and assist in code review and definition of automation practices to support backend & client interfaces.
Ensure teams deliver impactful & thoroughly reviewed services & clients, raising bugs & feature issues proactively and collaborating closely with software engineering resources to own product delivery from initial development through production release.
Facilitate agile processes with QA team leads and scrum masters, defining testing & acceptance criteria with our product management.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

10+ years of experience in Quality Assurance in digital platforms, with 6+ years in supporting enterprise QA & SDET teams.
Proven track record in software testing & automation, with significant technical experience and understanding of CI/CD processes and workflows.
Experience leading teams in fast-paced, agile environments with a focus on communication & collaboration.
Expertise and knowledge of test automation frameworks, such as Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, etc.
Mastery of software development lifecycle in cloud environments with a focus on enterprise application support.
Excellent communication & collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams.

Additional Information

As part of our selection process, external candidates may be required to attend an in-person interview with a VERSANT Media employee at one of our locations prior to a hiring decision. VERSANT Media's policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, gender identity or expression, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, veteran status, membership in the uniformed services, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law.

For LA County and City Residents Only: VERSANT Media will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories, or arrest or conviction records, in a manner consistent with relevant legal requirements, including the City of Los Angeles' Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act, where applicable.

If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran and require support throughout the application and/or recruitment process as a result of your disability, you have the right to request a reasonable accommodation. You can submit your request to candidateaccessibility@versantmedia.com.

VERSANT Media is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. We include a good faith pay range for each position to comply with applicable state and local pay transparency laws and to promote equity across our organization. Actual compensation will be based on factors such as the candidate's skills, qualifications, experience, and location and may include additional forms of compensation and benefits such as health insurance, retirement plans, paid time off, etc.

VERSANT Media is not accepting unsolicited assistance from search firms for this employment opportunity. All resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at VERSANT via-email, the Internet, or in any form and/or method without a valid written Statement of Work in place for this position from VERSANT's Talent Acquisition team will be deemed the sole property of VERSANT. No fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by VERSANT as a result of the referral or through other means.

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