Executive Director, QA Engineering - Parametric

ABOUT MORGAN STANLEY
Morgan Stanley is a leading global financial services firm providing a wide range of investment banking, securities, wealth management and investment management services. With offices in more than 41 countries, the Firm's employees serve clients worldwide including corporations, governments, institutions and individuals. For further information about Morgan Stanley, please visit www.morganstanley.com.

ABOUT PARAMETRIC
Parametric is part of Morgan Stanley Investment Management, the asset management division of Morgan Stanley. We partner with advisors, institutions, and consultants to build portfolios focused on what's important to them and their clients. A leader in custom solutions for more than 30 years, we help investors access efficient market exposures, solve implementation challenges, and design multi-asset portfolios that respond to their evolving needs. We also offer systematic alpha and alternative strategies to complement clients' core holdings.

This role is part of Parametric's hybrid working model, which includes working in the office 3 days a week and choosing to work remotely or in the office the remaining days of the week.

ABOUT THE TEAM
The Quality Assurance team at Parametric:
- We work among agile development/delivery teams to test and deliver custom software used by Parametric business users and customers.
- We are integral to ensuring software and system quality through understanding business requirements, test planning, test automation, test execution and acceptance testing.
- We strive to increase the velocity of software delivery while reducing risk and adhering to control requirements - we help teams go fast safely.

ABOUT THE ROLE
The Director, QA Engineering will be responsible for leading a team of QA professionals to design, build and support Test Automation efforts at Parametric, ensuring quality in delivering enhancements to proprietary Parametric software. You'll work closely with QA, SDETs and Developers to establish test automation solutions which are maintainable, extensible, and follow industry best practices, while partnering with Platform Engineering to integrate test suites with the CI/CD pipelines as part of the delivery flow. You'll also collaborate with other technology teams in the organization as necessary, including Infrastructure, InfoSec and Release Management to meet operational and control requirements.


PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Direct a growing team of Test Automation professionals by providing strategic direction, as well training on tools and practices, for our client engagement portals and distributed enterprise solutions
- Provide thought and practice leadership to help transform QA practice to be highly automated and systematic, enabling increased velocity of software delivery, risk reduction and strict adherence to SDLC policy controls
- Coach and mentor Test Automation team leads and staff to support professional development, engagement, and organizational goals
- Continuously improve Parametric's approach and platform for testing to cover functional, regression, end-to-end, performance/load, A/B deployments, and more
- Work with Quality Engineering leadership team and stakeholders to set priority and capacity expectations to balance resource allocation needs
- Track and present metrics for Test Automation to include overall coverage, in-sprint automation progress, and defect density
- Engage in a highly collaborative team environment including business partners and product owners to align testing goals with overall business objectives/key results
- Work with solution managers and software development leads to integrate quality engineering as early as possible into the product lifecycle

JOB QUALIFICATIONS
SKILL SET
Required Experience: 16+ years of experience with at least 12+ years of QA and Test Development experience
Skill set: Test Automation, Test Planning

PRIMARY SKILLS
- Bachelor's degree required
- 12+ years of hands-on Quality Engineering experience managing all aspects of technical projects with a proven track record of delivering solutions for high velocity teams and high profile projects
- Seven or more years' experience leading results-oriented test automation teams creating and implementing solutions for functionality coverage, as well as performance and scalability
- Experience leading rapidly growing teams; managing leads or managers of teams, a plus
- Experience in providing mentorship and career development to support QA/SDET leads and teams
- Expertise in setting automation strategy, including for cloud-native solutions
- Domain expertise in Financial Services industry
- Proven experience with test automation frameworks (e.g., Selenium/Playwright, Appium, Postman)
- Prior experience with either C# or Java programming
- Well-versed in modern automated testing methodologies and industry best practices, including test data management, A/B release strategy, Canary testing
- Experience integrating automation suites into CI/CD pipelines as part of quality gating and systematic change strategies
- Ability to manage multiple testing efforts simultaneously and work with stakeholders to set priority and capacity expectations

Good to Have Skills
- Experience with Security testing tools, such as OWASP Zap Scan)
- Accessibility testing
- Gen AI tooling to for testing efficiencies

Parametric believes each member of our organization makes a significant contribution to our success. That contribution should not be limited by the assigned responsibilities. Therefore, this job description is designed to outline primary duties and qualifications. It is our expectation that every member of our team will offer his/her/their services wherever and whenever necessary to ensure the success of our client services.

Morgan Stanley is an equal opportunities employer. We work to provide a supportive and inclusive environment where all individuals can maximise their full potential. Our skilled and creative workforce is comprised of individuals drawn from a broad cross section of the global communities in which we operate and who reflect a variety of backgrounds, talents, perspectives and experiences. Our strong commitment to a culture of inclusion is evident through our constant focus on recruiting, developing and advancing individuals based on their skills and talents.