# Sr. Director, Back-End Engineering at Coupang

> South Korea · Director+ · Backend · open. Source: https://alderhq.app/jobs/greenhouse%3Acoupang%3A8118861 (read 2026-11-06).

## Facts (observed)

- Company: [Coupang](https://alderhq.app/companies/coupang)
- Location text: Seoul, South Korea; Seoul
- Where it can be done from (inferred): South Korea (evidence: "Location: Seoul, South Korea; Seoul")
- Posted: 2026-08-23 (75 days ago)
- First seen by alder: 2026-11-02 · last verified: 2026-11-04
- Reposted: 0 times · edited: 0 times
- Apply on the employer's site: https://www.coupang.jobs/en/jobs/?gh_jid=8118861
- Skills listed (inferred): Distributed systems

## Pay and sponsorship

- Posted pay: not posted
- H-1B filings at this company for similar roles, FY26: 11, median offered wage $220k ([US DOL OFLC LCA disclosure data](https://www.dol.gov/agencies/eta/foreign-labor/performance))

## Description (the employer's text)

### Job Description – Sr. Director, TestOps

Coupang operates a large distributed technology ecosystem where changes must be validated quickly, safely, and repeatedly across infrastructure and application boundaries. We are seeking a Director, TestOps to build and lead testing as a platform capability. This leader will own test automation, test environments and data, integration testing, resilience validation, quality signals, and AI-assisted testing. The mission is to move testing from a manual phase owned independently by teams into an automated, federated, and measurable platform that enables safe continuous delivery. We are looking for a visionary quality-platform leader who has previously built and scaled comparable TestOps, test infrastructure, or continuous-quality systems in a leading global technology company.

### Key Responsibilities

- Set a bold vision for testing as a company-wide platform capability and translate that vision into an executable roadmap adopted across infrastructure and domain organizations.
- Define and execute the TestOps strategy across Tech Infrastructure and partner engineering organizations.
- Build a federated testing platform that supports infrastructure, platform, API, UI, integration, resilience, and release validation.
- Create repeatable test capabilities for Unified Staging and production-like environments.
- Partner with Developer Platform, SRE, Observability, Security, and domain teams to embed quality gates into delivery workflows.
- Own testing metrics including coverage, pass rate, escaped defects, flaky tests, execution time, environment readiness, and release confidence.
- Drive adoption through product management, customer enablement, documentation, office hours, and clear service-level objectives.
### Test Platform & Automation

- Build self-service test planning, execution, orchestration, reporting, and evidence-management capabilities.
- Automate UI, API, service integration, infrastructure integration, and end-to-end test execution.
- Provide reusable test harnesses, reference applications, simulators, mocks, and service-virtualization capabilities.
- Integrate TestOps with CI/CD, Global CD, Application Registry, observability, and release governance.
- Create quality gates that are risk-aware, fast, deterministic, and appropriate to service tiers.
- Reduce flaky tests, duplicated frameworks, manual validation, and fragmented tooling.
### Unified Staging, Test Data & Resilience Validation

- Use Unified Staging as the default environment for validating Tech Infrastructure components and domain applications.
- Build compliant, desensitized, production-like test data generation and lifecycle management.
- Enable integration testing across identity, mesh, networking, databases, queues, storage, observability, and application dependencies.
- Partner with SRE to automate fault injection, DR scenarios, failover validation, load testing, and reliability certification.
- Ensure validation evidence can feed release decisions, RBD/RBO certification, and executive reliability metrics.
### AI-Assisted Testing

- Build AI-assisted capabilities for feature test-plan generation, test-case generation, test-data generation, execution, failure analysis, and defect triage.
- Establish evaluation, safety, and quality mechanisms for AI-generated tests and recommendations.
- Use production telemetry and incident learnings to continuously improve test coverage and prioritize high-risk scenarios.
- Automate quality insights and next-best-action recommendations for engineers and release owners.
### Talent Leadership & Organization

- Lead managers, technical leads, and senior engineers across test platform, automation, and quality engineering.
- Own organization design, hiring, leadership development, and succession planning.
- Build a strong engineering culture focused on platform products rather than manual test execution.
- Develop leaders who can independently own federation, test infrastructure, AI TestOps, and resilience validation.
- Attract engineers with deep test infrastructure, distributed systems, developer tooling, and automation expertise.

---
Data: alder (https://alderhq.app). Cite https://alderhq.app/jobs/greenhouse%3Acoupang%3A8118861 and the date you read it. Observed facts come from the employer's own listing; location reach, level, family and skills are inferences.