Head of Quality Engineering & AI Transformation

LiveRamp; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 205,000 - 295,000; Full time

Job summary

LiveRamp is seeking a Director of Quality Engineering to lead a 40+ person QE organization across infrastructure, platform, data, and applications. You will own testing strategy, governance, and AI-driven transformation while partnering with engineering and security leadership to align quality with business goals.

The role emphasizes executive communication, scalable QA practices, and overseeing observability, incident management, and release readiness for a data collaboration platform trusted

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field is required; a Master's degree is preferred.
• 12-15+ years of software quality/test engineering experience.
• 5-8+ years in QE leadership or people management, scaling QE orgs of 40+ engineers.
• Deep test strategy expertise across Functional, Integration, E2E, Performance/Load, Robustness.
• Experience owning release quality for large-scale distributed/data systems (GCP/Kubernetes/AWS).
• Experience with CI/CD platforms (Jenkins/Spinnaker/CircleCI) and scale testing infra.
• Experience setting up Observability tooling across frameworks, monitoring, alerting.
• Experience leading Incident Management and governance/compliance practices.
• Strong executive communication and stakeholder management.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end Product Quality strategy and execution across multiple layers and systems.
• Lead and grow QE organization of 40+ engineers and managers; hire and coach.
• Drive AI-led transformation of QE processes and tooling across the org.
• Define and enforce standard QE practices, frameworks, and quality gates.
• Own Observability platform strategy across all layers; test coverage and monitoring.
• Own Incident Management processes for quality-related issues; RCA and prevention.
• Own governance/audit processes for Product Quality compliance and reporting.
• Partner with Engineering, Product, Infra, and Security to align QE with business goals.
• Report quality metrics, release risk, and readiness to senior leadership.

Skills

Leadership

Quality strategy

Executive communication

Agile / Scrum

QE leadership

AI in QE

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT

Master's degree in Engineering or QS

Tools

Jenkins

Spinnaker

CircleCI

LogDNA

Datadog

Kibana

Tableau

Job description

LiveRamp is seeking a Director of Quality Engineering to lead a 40+ person QE organization across infrastructure, platform, data, and applications. You will own testing strategy, governance, and AI-driven transformation while partnering with engineering and security leadership to align quality with business goals.

The role emphasizes executive communication, scalable QA practices, and overseeing observability, incident management, and release readiness for a data collaboration platform trusted