Quality Assurance Engineer, Aladdin Engineering, Vice President

Responsibilities include:

• Lead and manage a team of QA engineers, providing technical guidance, mentoring and performance feedback. Foster a culture of continuous improvement and accountability within the team.
• Being hands-on and owning functional deliveries.
• Apply expertise in Java, Selenium, Performance Testing tools, or other test frameworks to design, develop and maintain test suites.
• Responsible for managing comprehensive testing phases from planning to execution for functional and non-functional requirements including design, development, and delivery.
• Collaborate with peers, product managers, developers, and other stakeholders to understand client requirements, provide input on design and ensure high quality deliverables.
• Analyze and report on QA metrics, trends, and opportunities for improvement, presenting findings to senior management and recommending corrective actions.
• Champion a culture of quality within the organization, driving awareness and adherence to Quality standards.
• Prioritize and develop enhancements to continuously improve application stability and scalability.
• Conduct reviews of applications and workflow processes to target automation effectiveness.
• Drive a strong culture by bringing principles of inclusion and diversity to the team and setting the tone through specific recruiting, management actions and employee engagement.

Qualifications:

• B.E. / B.Tech. / MCA degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related subject area
• 8+ years of proven experience

Skills and Experience:

• Experience in senior QA role within the financial services industry, ideally in asset management or a related field. Deep understanding of investment management processes, risk management methodologies, regulatory compliance requirements or Investment Accounting skills.
• Hands on coding experience in Java (for technical roles)
• Strong knowledge of test automation frameworks, tools, and scripting languages along with strong analytical and problem-solving skills to identify and address complex issues.
• Proven track record of successfully leading and implementing QA programs that drive continuous improvement.
• Deep understanding of software quality assurance and engineering processes, methodologies, and best practices. Solid understanding of Agile software development methodologies.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal and leadership skills, with the ability to influence and collaborate effectively across diverse teams.
• Strong foundation in RDBMS, SQL and application infrastructure technologies, performance testing tools & methodologies (JMeter or other), API testing for handling complex distributed systems.
• Self-motivator, that looks for challenges and rolls up their sleeves to identify and understand the core issues and works closely with all levels and across teams to implement solutions.

Nice to have and opportunities to learn:

• Experience of working in Agile Development Team
• AZURE Dev Ops, CI/CD integration and associated tools and processes (Jenkins, Maven, SonarQube).
• AI and Machine Learning (ChatGPT or GitHub CoPilot)
• Cucumber and BDD
• Cloud based testing.
• API testing (Postman, Soap UI)