Quality Software Engineer Lead Vice President

Location: Tampa, Florida, United States

Employment Type: Regular

Overview of the Role:

Citi, the leading global bank, has approximately 200 million customer accounts and does business in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions. Citi provides consumers, corporations, governments, and institutions with a broad range of financial products and services, including consumer banking and credit, corporate and investment banking, securities brokerage, transaction services, and wealth management.

 

As a bank with a brain and a soul, Citi creates economic value that is systemically responsible and in our clients’ best interests. As a financial institution that touches every region of the world and every sector that shapes your daily life, our Enterprise Operations & Technology teams are charged with a mission that rivals any large tech company. Our technology solutions are the foundations of everything we do from keeping the bank safe, managing global resources, and providing the technical tools our workers need to be successful to designing our digital architecture and ensuring our platforms provide a first-class customer experience. We reimagine client and partner experiences to deliver excellence through secure, reliable, and efficient services.

 

Our commitment to diversity includes a workforce that represents the clients we serve from all walks of life, backgrounds, and origins. We foster an environment where the best people want to work. We value and demand respect for others, promote individuals based on merit, and ensure opportunities for personal development are widely available to all. Ideal candidates are innovators with well-rounded backgrounds who bring their authentic selves to work and complement our culture of delivering results with pride. If you are a problem solver who seeks passion in your work, come join us. We’ll enable growth and progress together.

Are you a highly skilled and motivated Senior Quality Engineering Lead looking to make a significant impact in the dynamic world of finance? Join our cutting-edge technology team and play a pivotal role in developing and enhancing our proprietary “Margin Calculations and Reporting” Platform, a critical component of our Prime Finance Services organization. This is an exceptional opportunity to apply your Quality Engineering expertise to complex, computing-intensive financial solutions within a collaborative and globally connected environment.

We are looking for a Senior quality engineer who can lead a team and will be responsible for engineering quality into the product lifecycle through scalable automation, strong testing strategy, and proactive collaboration across engineering teams.

A quality engineer that will be responsible for engineering quality into the product lifecycle through scalable automation, strong testing strategy, and proactive collaboration across engineering teams.

Core Responsibilities

• Lead a QA team and ensure that the Quality team consistently aligns to the defined testing strategy by enforcing proper guidelines, standards, and bank-approved frameworks, providing direction and oversight to maintain discipline, consistency, and high signal quality across all automation and testing practices.

• Design and implement automation frameworks that are modular, scalable and aligned with the bank’s approved engineering patterns, libraries and architectural standards.

• Develop BDD-aligned automated test using cucumber and the bank’s standardized testing frameworks, ensuring scenarios reflect business intent and comply with internal governance.

• Integrate automated tests within CI/CD pipelines to establish and enforce quality gates to ensure deterministic, fast, and reliable feedback on every code change.

• Analyze failures and improve signal quality, ensuring test fail for the right reasons and provide actionable diagnostics.

• Drive test data, environment readiness, and observability to support reliable automation execution

• Partner early with developers, product owners, and business analysts to shape requirements, define acceptance criteria, and prevent defects.

• Champion engineering-led quality practices that align with the bank’s SDLC, risk controls, and regulatory expectations.

Qualifications:

• 6+ years IT Testing experience required

• Excellent knowledge of software testing techniques and testing tools

• Knowledge of any well-known software development and testing life-cycle methodology

• Requires communication and diplomacy skills and an ability to persuade and influence

Automation Frameworks & Tools:

Typescript / JavaScript / Node.js Automation

• Experience building automation frameworks using Typescript or JavaScript on Node.js, following modular, maintainable patterns.

• Hands-on expertise with Playwright (TypeScript/JavaScript) for fast, reliable UI automation, including fixtures, parallel execution, tracing, and deterministic test design.

• Proficiency with Cucumber-JS for BDD workflows, including step definitions, hooks, data strategies, and integration.

Java Automation

• Strong experience building automation frameworks with Java, using old and modern JDKs and clean, maintainable design patterns.

• Proficiency with Cucumber-Java, including step definition architecture, dependency injection, and parallel execution strategies.

• Hands-on experience with Selenium WebDriver (Java) for UI automation, including grid execution, stability patterns, and cross browser coverage.

• Familiarity with Playwright for Java, understanding its driver model, feature parity, and integration within Java-based automation coverage.

CI/CD Engineering

• Strong experience integrating automated test into CI/CD pipelines

• Familiarity with Tekton, including Tasks, Pipelines, triggers, and event driven execution.

• Familiarity with Harness as the orchestration and governance layer, including pipeline stages, approvals, quality gates, artifact promotion, and release controls.

• Proficiency using Docker to containerize automation workloads in OpenShift, including working with pods, routes, config maps, secrets.

• Strong shell scripting skills for pipeline automation, environment setup, debugging, log analysis, and operational tooling.

• Ability to troubleshoot CI/CD failures across containers, pipelines, and cluster-based execution using logs, metrics, and observability tools.

Education:

• Bachelor’s/University degree, Master’s degree preferred

What we’ll provide you

In addition to salary, Citi’s offerings may also include, for eligible employees, discretionary and formulaic incentive and retention awards. Citi offers competitive employee benefits, including: medical, dental & vision coverage; 401(k); life, accident, and disability insurance; and wellness programs. Citi also offers paid time off packages, including planned time off (vacation), unplanned time off (sick leave), and paid holidays. For additional information regarding Citi employee benefits, please visit citibenefits.com. Available offerings may vary by jurisdiction, job level, and date of hire.

Visit our Global Benefits page to learn more.

Alongside these benefits Citi is committed to ensuring our workplace is where everyone feels comfortable coming to work as their whole self, every day. We want the best talent around the world to be energized to join us, motivated to stay and empowered to thrive.

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Job Family Group:

Technology

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Job Family:

Applications Development

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Time Type:

Full time

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Primary Location:

Tampa Florida United States

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Primary Location Full Time Salary Range:

$113 840,00 - $170 760,00

In addition to salary, Citi’s offerings may also include, for eligible employees, discretionary and formulaic incentive and retention awards. Citi offers competitive employee benefits, including: medical, dental & vision coverage; 401(k); life, accident, and disability insurance; and wellness programs. Citi also offers paid time off packages, including planned time off (vacation), unplanned time off (sick leave), and paid holidays. For additional information regarding Citi employee benefits, please visit citibenefits.com. Available offerings may vary by jurisdiction, job level, and date of hire.

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Most Relevant Skills

Please see the requirements listed above.

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Other Relevant Skills

For complementary skills, please see above and/or contact the recruiter.

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Anticipated Posting Close Date:

may 06, 2026

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