Associate Director, Software Test (AI)

Location: New Providence, New Jersey, United States of America

Annual base pay: $91,000–$253,700; actual pay varies by qualifications, location, and schedule.

Company

hirify.global provides clinical research services, commercial insights, and healthcare intelligence for life sciences and healthcare organizations.

What you will do

• Lead quality strategy, planning, execution, and release-readiness criteria for complex applications and integrated solutions.
• Lead, coach, and develop onshore and offshore QA resources while aligning capacity with business needs, risk, and priorities.
• Define risk-based test strategies, plans, coverage, and quality metrics across integration, regression, and end-to-end workflows.
• Evaluate upstream and downstream impacts, integration points, dependencies, delivery risks, and quality risks across systems.
• Establish QA standards, processes, tools, and ways of working; use defect and root-cause trends to drive continuous improvement.
• Identify opportunities to apply AI, automation, and emerging technologies to improve QA efficiency, coverage, speed, traceability, and decision-making.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a 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 testing, 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 work across multiple technologies and business domains and quickly understand unfamiliar systems.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment with health, welfare, and other benefits.
• Additional incentive plans, bonuses, or other compensation may be offered depending on the position.
• Equal opportunity employment and an integrity-focused hiring process.