Quality Engineer

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Job Description:
This job is responsible for testing and delivering complex software requirements to accomplish business outcomes, ensuring the testing strategy and processes are well-defined and continuously improved. Key responsibilities include establishing a test and automation strategy, creating common test frameworks, defining and managing test processes including test data generation, defect management and reporting. Job expectations include understanding and implementing internal/external mandate, ensuring compliance requirements are met on all levels of test environments, and manages traceability.

Position Summary:

• Function as Lead for Risk QA space while managing test delivery/automation and focus on MRT platform stability and improvements.

Responsibilities:

• Creates and optimizes test processes including defect management and reporting
• Creates and optimizes test automation frameworks and use of test automation tools
• Leads test planning for complex features that span across the platform or multiple teams
• Creates a test automation strategy across the application stack (UI, API, and Backend, etc.)
• Ensures alignment and sign off for test cases from business and other stakeholders
• Manages test execution and resolves, communicates or escalates any issues that may result in test plan variance
• Designs test data and ensure data compliance requirements are met on all levels of test environments
• Define and execute the overall QA strategy aligned with business and technology team for all market risk applications
• Lead and manage QA teams consisting of manual, automation, and data testers.
• Establish quality standards, testing methodologies, and best practices across projects
• Drive a quality-first culture and provide continuous improvement initiatives to ensure production stability
• Develop QA roadmaps, automation strategies, and testing transformation plans.
• Ensure adherence to organizational QA governance and compliance requirements.
• Own end-to-end QA delivery across multiple projects and releases
• Define test scope, test approach, resource allocation, and timelines and Review project requirements to ensure adequate test coverage.
• Manage SIT Regression, Integration, Performance, and Feature validation activities.
• Define automation strategy and framework roadmap, adoption of Python-based automation solutions, Improve regression and integration automation coverage.

Required Qualifications:

• 10+ years of QA leadership experience managing enterprise-scale testing initiatives.
• Proven experience leading large QA organizations across manual, automation, and data testing disciplines.
• Strong background in test automation, data validation, and enterprise application testing.
• Experience implementing QA governance, risk-based testing, and release management practices.
• Strong understanding of Agile, DevOps, CI/CD, and continuous testing methodologies.
• Excellent leadership, stakeholder management, communication, and problem-solving skills.

Expected Skills:

• QA Leadership & Governance
• Python Automation
• DB2 / Oracle / SQL Server / Advanced SQL
• ETL & Data Warehouse Testing
• Data Migration Validation
• Reporting & Regulatory Testing
• Test Automation Frameworks
• Agile & DevOps
• AI Tools (GitHub Copilot, GenAI Testing Tools)
• People Management
• Risk & Release Management
• Executive Communication

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience within banking, financial services, risk management, or regulatory reporting domains.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps-driven testing practices.
• Exposure to cloud-based , AI data platforms and modern data engineering ecosystems.
• Strong understanding of data quality frameworks, controls, and audit requirements.

Skills:

• Analytical Thinking
• Business Acumen
• Influence
• Technical Strategy Development
• Test Engineering
• Automation
• Collaboration
• Solution Delivery Process
• Solution Design
• Stakeholder Management
• Agile Practices
• Application Development
• Architecture
• DevOps Practices
• User Experience Design

Shift:

1st shift (United States of America)

Hours Per Week:

40

Pay Transparency details

US - NJ - Jersey City - 525 Washington Blvd (NJ2525)Pay and benefits informationPay range$98,000.00 - $141,600.00 annualized salary, offers to be determined based on experience, education and skill set.Discretionary incentive eligibleThis role is eligible to participate in the annual discretionary plan. Employees are eligible for an annual discretionary award based on their overall individual performance results and behaviors, the performance and contributions of their line of business and/or group; and the overall success of the Company.BenefitsThis role is currently benefits eligible. We provide industry-leading benefits, access to paid time off, resources and support to our employees so they can make a genuine impact and contribute to the sustainable growth of our business and the communities we serve.