Quality Assurance Functional Test Lead, Vice President

Role Description:

This person will be a key member to provide Quality Assurance testing to ensure any business-requested changes are validated prior to handing off to UAT. This person will learn the business as well as understand the testing framework and processes for our applications. Required to draw on testing knowledge in order to creatively develop solutions for automating test processes as well as design maintenance procedures and documentation. Within this team, there is an open and collaborative approach to work on solutions for applications and workflow processes. Additionally, this person will be required to automate any repetitive steps in a workflow process or application in order to provide the highest quality for our technology and business and will be required to meet those standards and prove your ability to provide the best test capabilities.

Role Objectives

• Lead initiatives for automation of post validation tests
• Lead initiatives for automation of regression testing
• Develop and enhance QA test processes to reduce the number of production incidents
• Prioritize and develop enhancements to continuously improve application stability and scalability in post-production phase of application projects.
• Maintain communication workstreams between developers, business analysts, and sponsor stakeholder teams
• Help drive quality and effectiveness of risk automation controls established by business and process application owners
• Conduct reviews of applications and workflow processes to target automation effectiveness
• Produce high quality user test scripts for multiple applications and workflow procedures that need automation
• Understand business processes and contribute in designing the suitable framework
• Train and educate junior team members on QA processes and System architecture

Qualifications and Skills

• Excellent problem solving and analytical skills with 12 to 15 years of experience
• Experience working with Fixed Income, Equities and FX domain is must
• Good knowledge with SQL Server and SQL queries
• Conversant in ITIL
• Should be able to prepare automation strategy and plan and develop data reconciliation automations
• Experience in designing Frameworks is a must
• Good knowledge in any automation testing tools
• Should have worked on defect management tools like QC or Jira
• Extensive hands-on experience in Database, Data Warehouse (ETL), Data conversion, data migration, functional/regression, back/front end and API testing.
• Experience in setting up testing practices and teams from scratch, Stabilizing Book of Work, creating and publishing QA Metrics and reports to senior tech and business & management.
• Should be a good leader in driving QA projects