Key Responsibilities

📍Build and lead a QA team. Provide guidance, mentoring and support to QA engineers across teams and projects by providing technical direction and best practices 📍Ensure quality standards across all departments.Establish and enforce best practices for software quality, test automation, and continuous testing. 📍Develop and implement a comprehensive QA strategy covering both manual and automated testing for backend services and research data pipelines. 📍Develop and maintain test plans, test cases, and test scripts for various services and data workflows 📍Ensure test coverage across functional, integration, performance, and security testing 📍Collaborate with engineers, researchers, data engineers and product teams to define test requirements and strategies for code and research pipelines testing. Identify gaps in existing testing strategies and coverage and work with engineering teams to address them. 📍Perform root cause analysis of defects and work with engineering teams to prevent recurrence 📍Develop and maintain quality metrics to track software quality trends. 📍Advocate for shift-left testing, ensuring issues are caught early in the development lifecycle 📍Participate in architectural and design discussions to incorporate testability and automation 📍Provide guidance on balancing automated vs. manual testing based on project needs.

Requirements

📍Must Haves 📍Proven experience growing and leading QA teams, ideally scaling from small teams to 8-10+ members. 📍Strong background in QA methodologies, both manual and automated testing. 📍Experience in a trading firm or financial technology company, with domain understanding of systematic trading systems and best practices for testing systematic trading systems.

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