IT Quality Assurance and Regulatory Compliance Manager

What Makes a Honda, is Who makes a Honda Honda has a clear vision for the future, and it's a joyful one. We are looking for individuals with the skills, courage, persistence, and dreams that will help us reach our future-focused goals. At our core is innovation. Honda is constantly innovating and developing solutions to drive our business with record success. We strive to be a company that serves as a source of "power" that supports people around the world who are trying to do things based on their own initiative and that helps people expand their own potential. To this end, Honda strives to realize "the joy and freedom of mobility" by developing new technologies and an innovative approach to achieve a "zero environmental footprint." We are looking for qualified individuals with diverse backgrounds, experiences, continuous improvement values, and a strong work ethic to join our team. If your goals and values align with Honda's, we want you to join our team to Bring the Future! Job Purpose In this role, the incumbent will lead the IT Quality Assurance and Compliance function for Honda's Consumer Applications, ensuring secure, compliant, and high-quality delivery of complex, customer-facing technology solutions. The role owns QA strategy, operational execution, release governance, and regulatory compliance while providing leadership, risk oversight, and consultative support across business and IT stakeholders.

Key Accountabilities QA Leadership & Governance:

Lead and develop QA teams and vendors; establish consistent QA standards, quality gates, and automation practices across platforms using Agile and SAFe.

Quality Strategy & Planning:

Define and execute a risk-based QA strategy aligned with business objectives, regulatory timelines, release criticality, and customer impact.

Testing & Release Assurance:

Oversee manual and automated testing (unit, integration, performance), defect management, and release approvals.

Compliance & Risk Management:

Ensure adherence to regulatory, legal, security, privacy, PII, SOX, GDPR / CCPA awareness and Honda's IT policies; assess and mitigate quality and compliance risks prior to production deployment.

Process Improvement & Audits:

Drive continuous improvement through metrics, trend analysis, internal/external audits, and corrective actions to reduce defects, incidents, and compliance exposure.

Cross-functional Collaboration:

Partner with Product, Development, Security, Privacy, Operations, Legal, Marketing, Governance, Infrastructure, and PMO teams.

Consultative & Technical Oversight:

Maintain deep understanding of IT architecture and platforms; provide quality, compliance, and delivery guidance to Consumer Apps initiatives. Qualifications, Experience, and Skills Minimum educational qualification: A Bachelor's level degree / diploma in Computer Science / Data Science / Information Technology / Information Systems / Applied Mathematics / Electronics / Electrical Engineering, or equivalent relevant work experience in the industry.

Minimum work experience:

At least 8 years of relevant work experience in the IT industry, besides academics. Proven leadership in IT QA, software testing, and regulatory compliance within enterprise, customerfacing environments; experience with web platforms, vendors, and complex integrations.

Technical Expertise:

QA tools and automation (including building automation from the ground up), API and downstream integrations, release management, risk assessment, and familiarity with AI / ML tools for QA efficiency.

Regulatory & Governance Knowledge:

Data privacy, security, SOX, platform governance, and compliance operations; automotive industry experience preferred.

Leadership & Execution Skills:

Strong people leadership, strategic thinking, problem solving, communication, service management, and the ability to manage ambiguity in fastpaced environments.

Mindset:

Be detail-oriented, organized, data-driven, and committed to continuous improvement. Other job-specific skills (desirable) : Selenium (Java), Serenity Reports, Maven Python and / or TypeScript, Locust Serenity Reports, Maven JMeter, LoadRunner Workstyle Employee must be able to work onsite at least 4 days per workweek, at our Torrance, CA corporate office. One remote workday per week may be possible with prior departmental approval. What differentiates Honda and make us an employer of choice?

Total Rewards:

Competitive Base Salary (pay will be based on several variables that include, but not limited to geographic location, work experience, etc.) Regional Bonus (when applicable) Manager Lease Car Program (No Cost - Car, Maintenance, and Insurance included) Industry-leading Benefit Plans (Medical, Dental, Vision, Rx) Paid time off, including vacation, holidays, shutdown Company Paid Short-Term and Long-Term Disability 401K Plan with company match + additional contribution Relocation assistance (if eligible)

Career Growth:

Advancement Opportunities Career Mobility Education Reimbursement for

Continued Learning Training and Development Programs Additional Offerings :

Lifestyle Account Childcare Reimbursement Account Elder Care Support Tuition Assistance & Student Loan Repayment Wellbeing Program Community Service and Engagement Programs Product Programs Honda is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected factor.