Duties and Responsibilitie

· Quality Engineering Leadership

· Define and implement quality engineering strategies, methodologies, and best practices.

· Establish quality goals, testing frameworks, and governance processes across projects.

· Promote a quality-first culture throughout the SDLC.

· Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance testing efficiency and effectiveness.

· Project & Test Management

· Lead end-to-end testing for large-scale programs, projects, and releases.

· Develop and manage test plans, schedules, and deliverables.

· Coordinate SIT, UAT, Regression, Performance, and End-to-End Testing.

· Ensure testing milestones are met and project risks are proactively managed.

· Define the right testing approach per program using risk-based/impact-based prioritization.

· Team Leadership (delivery-facing)

· Lead and mentor the QA engineers/leads on the programs day to day.

· Foster collaboration between QA, development, business, and project teams.

· Coordinate delivery across offshore and onshore teams and managers.

· Governance, Reporting, Defect & Risk

· Monitor testing progress, defect trends, and overall quality status.

· Present quality updates, risks, and recommendations to sponsors and stakeholders.

· Ensure compliance with the organizational quality standards and audit requirements.

· Oversee defect lifecycle from identification through resolution.

· Assess quality risks and develop mitigation strategies.

· Ensure production readiness through quality gates and release criteria.

· Stakeholder Management

· Serve as the primary quality representative across project teams.

· Partner with Product Owners, BAs, Architects, Developers, and Program Managers.

· Drive UAT readiness, stakeholder engagement, and solution validation.

· Communicate project status, quality insights, and recommendations effectively.

· Automation & Innovation

· Champion test automation strategies and continuous testing.

· Evaluate and recommend testing tools and technologies.

· Support CI/CD integration and DevOps quality initiatives.

· Drive adoption of modern QE methodologies.

· Provide hands-on technical leadership for automation (framework design, Playwright/Selenium, code/test-design review).

· Champion AI-assisted testing and evaluate emerging AI/LLM tooling.

· Initiative & Ownership

· Own ambiguous problems and turn them into structured, executable plans.

· Proactively identify automation gaps and process improvements and drive them to completion.

· Bring a self-starter, go-getter mindset balancing speed with quality.

KEY SKILLS

Non-negotiable/Required

· Experience managing multiple technology projects within the financial services industry involving planning/tracking, budget management, issues resolution, conflict management, resource management, status reporting, quality enforcement, and management of multiple vendors. Excellent communication and presentation skills required.

· Proficiency with project scheduling and tracking tools.

· Behavioral Characteristics:

· Comfortable working within boundaries of a structured methodology.

· Team Player (leading large, complex projects with multiple PMs).

· Detail Oriented.

· Proactive.

· Results Oriented.

· Self Starter.

· Thought Leader.

ADD OTHER JOB DETAILS

PRIMARY SKILL Testing: Lead/Management

SECONDARY SKILL: Project Management

Project Manager QE