You will oversee the testing strategy and execution for critical applications used by the Financial Industry for Financial Supervision functions. You will lead a team of testers and automation engineers, ensuring high-quality deliverables through robust test planning, automation, and continuous improvement. This role requires strong leadership, technical expertise, and collaboration across agile squads.

• Define and evolve the testing strategy across squads and products.

• Establish common standards and templates aligned to recognized practices

• Create and run quality governance and own QA OKRs for the division.

• Maintain a test architecture roadmap and drive tool consolidation.

• Own end‑to‑end automation strategy: UI, API, contract, component, and smoke/regression suites integrated into CI/CD.

• Ensure maintainable frameworks, coding standards, and code reviews; champion modular page/object models, data builders, and parallelization.

• Ability to define and achieve comprehensive test coverage across functional, non-functional, and automation layers to ensure quality and risk mitigation

• Plan and execute performance, scalability, resilience, and security testing; collaborate with engineering on tuning and hardening.

• Define SLO‑aligned test goals (latency, throughput, error rate) and bake checks into pipelines.

• Partner with Product, Architecture, Cybersecurity, and Compliance to balance risk, speed, and regulatory requirements.

• Provide clear dashboards and release readiness reports; communicate trade‑offs and recommendations to leadership.

• Lead and mentor a multi‑disciplinary squad (automation, functional, performance, security) serving multiple applications; manage capacity, prioritization, and cross‑team engagement.

• Stand up shared services for regression, performance & security testing, test data management, and environment orchestration.

• Coach squads on story quality (acceptance criteria, testability, Definition of Ready/Done) and facilitate test planning in sprint cadences.

• Lead retrospectives and incident reviews (escaped defects, production issues) to improve prevention.

• Drive skills development (automation, performance, security) and keep the team current with tooling and methods.

Requirements:

1. 9+ years in QA/testing, 3+ years leading centralized or cross product testing teams.

2. Strong proficiency in programming languages such as JavaScript/TypeScript or Python.

3. Strong SQL skills with hands-on experience in MySQL and PostgreSQL for test data preparation, backend verification, and database-level testing.

4. Hands‑on expertise with Selenium/Cypress/Playwright and API testing (Postman/REST Assured), plus CI/CD integration.

5. Strong grasp of Agile/Scrum, DevOps, and shift‑left practices (BDD/TDD, contract testing).

6. Solid knowledge of performance and security testing concepts and tools (JMeter/k6, OWASP ZAP).

7. Experience with cloud platforms (preferably AWS) and container orchestration (Kubernetes) for test environment management.