Senior Quality Engineering Manager

Requirements:

• The successful candidate will be an experienced quality engineering solution architect and experience manager with solid delivery / execution experience, able to demonstrate a track record of delivering QE initiatives to IT and business stakeholders in a consultative environment in large transformation programmes. This person will be a passionate technologist with a demonstrated ability to bring together all components required for successful delivery. 
• The candidate will be well-versed in the existing and emerging quality engineering techniques and technologies, QE trends and have experience in transforming legacy QA processes and technologies to QE practices directed to drastic time-to-production and quality improvement as well as ROI maximisation. 
• Over 10 years of progressive experience in Quality Engineering / Assurance with at least 4+ years of experience in Test Automation, preferably within the financial services industry.
• Experience from the QE perspective in transforming legacy enterprise delivery processes to Agile delivery at scale.
• Practical knowledge of building test data management platforms for complex input/reference-data-heavy enterprise platforms.
• Demonstrated ability to discover the client platform landscape and processes and propose a target state, including methodology, tool stack, team skills and transformation roadmap.
• Fluency in qualitative, quantitative, and financial quality metrics.
• Proficient in executing test automation within an Agile development environment.
• Strong knowledge of testing enterprise solutions in high-availability technology environments in both corporate and customer-facing service platforms.
• Experience coordinating and managing functional and non-functional test activities, including phases such as system testing, systems integration testing (SIT), user acceptance testing (UAT), parallel run or parallel comparison testing, business/operational acceptance testing, and volume/performance scenario testing.
• Proficiency in reviewing test status and test evidence, ensuring testing deliverables are of high quality and meeting standards, and validating SLAs were met.
• Experience working with data and analytics.
• Knowledge of continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) practices.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills to liaise with development teams, stakeholders, and other departments.

Key Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with the client’s engineering and product teams to define the QE needs and requirements. 
• Design and build advanced testing capabilities for applications across platforms while understanding the products from both a technical and business perspective.
• Communicate with leadership, product owners, other technologists, and users to create working testing software based on an understanding of business and technical priorities. 
• Leading QA and Engineering teams in implementing QA/QE strategies.
• Work with extensive list of senior stakeholders in delivering on the quality agenda to expectations.
• Assist development teams in improving testing efficiency and identifying non-compliance with requirements, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability.
• Work with development engineers to track down defects.
• Advocate test-driven development and deliver high-quality testing capabilities.