P5P5 — Expert Professional
Senior QA Manager / Director
Leads corporate quality strategy. Oversees multiple QA sub-functions and establishes enterprise-wide quality policies.
What this level means
Expert in field; key problem solver and project leader, authority in multiple areas
- Scope
- Multiple systems or a technical domain
- Autonomy
- Sets direction within the domain
- Complexity
- Novel, high-ambiguity problems; establishes the approach
- Impact
- Org / multi-team outcomes
- Decision rights
- Authority over a technical domain
- Leadership
- Leads cross-team technical initiatives
- Typical experience
- 8–12 yrs
What you'd do
- Leads corporate quality strategy
- Oversees multiple QA sub-functions
- Establishes enterprise-wide quality policies
- Ensures alignment with corporate goals
- Represents QA at executive level
- Coordinates with senior management
- Develops long-term quality strategies
- Monitors industry trends and adapts strategies
- Leads enterprise-wide quality initiatives
- Mentors senior QA staff
- Lead corporate quality strategy
- Oversee QA sub-functions
- Establish quality policies
Skills, knowledge & tools
- Strategic quality leadership
- Policy development
- Executive communication
- Cross-functional oversight
- Industry trend analysis
- Long-term strategy development
- Mentoring
- Regulatory mastery
- Regulatory landscape
- Strategic planning frameworks
- Executive leadership principles
- Cross-functional management
- Policy development processes
- Industry trend analysis
- Long-term strategy frameworks
- Mentoring techniques
- Mastery of regulatory landscape
- Strategic planning capabilities
- Executive Leadership
- Cross-functional oversight
- Policy development
- Industry trend analysis
- Long-term strategy development
- Mentoring senior staff
What good looks like
- 10+ years in progressively senior QA leadership
- Mastery of regulatory landscape
- Strategic planning capabilities
Common titles
Senior QA Manager / Director
Where it sits & what it pays
O*NET / SOC: 51-0000 — Production Occupations(inferred · under review)
Market-pay benchmarks for this family × level are coming — JobFrame anchors pay to the family/level structure rather than the raw title.