Quality Assurance Lead

Quality Assurance Lead

Senior level • Full-time • Remote or Cluj-Napoca

HDRZR005 118 Remote

Job Summary

Our partner is a leading provider of risk management technology and consulting solutions to financial institutions worldwide. Established in 1999, our partner's company has successfully delivered solutions to proactively measure and manage risk and capital in the Americas, Europe, Australia, and Asia.

Headquartered in the heart of The City in London, with existing Development Centre's in Australia, India. They are now opening their European Development centre in Cluj-Napoca. Our partner is now set for a period of sustained growth.

Their focus is based on providing fast, powerful, and flexible solutions to today's and tomorrow's risk and capital management problems posed by the ever-changing economic and financial world as well as the increasing demands placed on Financial Services Institutions by Governments and Regulators.

With a comprehensive development roadmap, their market leading software solution they will continue to be the cornerstone of their proposition.

They are looking for a detail-oriented quality assurance specialist to oversee all quality assurance activities. As a Quality Assurance Lead, you will be responsible for creating and implementing a strategy for quality coordination and testing as well as suggesting solutions to identified quality problems.

To be successful in the role you should be incredibly thorough and able to help them maintain the highest quality standards.

This is a great opportunity to join a fast-growing FinTech company with a world-renowned team with risk management expertise, in an established, successful, and rapidly growing company in a global development role. You will be working in a fast-paced and dynamic environment as part of their global close-knit product development team.

Responsibilities / Key Accountabilities

• Test current products and identifying deficiencies.
• Design, develop and execute automation scripts.
• Suggest solutions to identified product problems.
• Investigate product quality to make improvements to achieve better customer satisfaction.
• Plan, create and manage the overall Quality Planning strategy
• Collaborate with the Product Development team to ensure consistent project execution.
• Identify quality assurance process bottleneck and suggest actions for improvement.
• Oversee continuous improvement projects.
• Collect quality data.
• Identify key KPIs for product quality.
• Prepare and present reports and metrics to Senior Management.

Skills and Experience

• 7+ years of experience as a quality assurance engineer.
• Experience leading/managing a team.
• Hands-on experience with both white box and black-box testing.
• Strong knowledge of software QA methodologies, tools, and processes.
• Experience in writing clear, concise, and comprehensive test plans and test cases.
• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum development process.
• Experience with performance and/or security testing is a plus.
• Good English communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Excellent data collection and analysis skills.
• Strong attention to detail.

Desirable

• Hands-on experience with automated testing tools.
• Programming experience in SQL and in any one of Python, C#, JavaScript.
• German-speaking language knowledge.
• Git experience.
• Use of JIRA and related development process tools.
• Financial markets experience.