Senior Director Enterprise Testing Services

Overview

Responsibilities

• Lead strategy and direction and drive excellence in the Enterprise Testing Services
• Governs how all testing is done for all global IT projects at PepsiCo as well as manages testing execution for all testing managed service delivery for those projects.
• Accountable to define the vision to build and deploy testing governance standards, all testing end to end quality dashboards. Builds and manages the SAP Evergreen managed service. Strategize on increasing automation adoption across IT to enable DevSecOps.
• Plan and manage test resources (external / internal) to provide required training/mentoring/education for Test Managers, ETS Members and other test resources to ensure adherence to testing methodology and PepsiCo standards.
• Accountable to manage testing labs globally (ETS governed) as well as oversee and lead applicable test environment management through managed service providers.
• Tools: Responsible for managing the IT testing tools used by the ETS team and across IT organization. The scope of the role includes the inventory, licensing and usage of existing tools as well as the evaluation of new tools for optimization across PepsiCo IT. Accountable for training others on tools and managing vendor relationships for upgrades, etc. via a managed services contract
• Establishes automated testing framework across sectors and S&T capabilities

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required
• At least 20 years of experience in leading testing projects, including large scale implementations, both in SAP and Non SAP and other domains like Data &AI
• Atleast 10+ years of related IT business work experience, experience managing a team