Lead Quality Engineer
S&P Global4 days ago
Noida, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Own and continuously improve quality strategy, quality gates, and risk-based testing across the full software development lifecycle.
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable automated test frameworks and suites for UI, API, data, integration, regression, and non-functional testing.
- Implement test automation using Java, Python, Selenium, Cucumber, Carina, and appropriate frameworks.
- Validate financial risk workflows, calculation accuracy, data integrity, security controls, integrations, deployment readiness, rollback capability, and observability.
- Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines and monitor quality metrics including coverage, defect leakage, test reliability, environment stability, and release readiness.
- Lead quality governance, test evidence, release planning, sign-offs, gap analysis, and remediation across agile teams.
- Manage QA and UAT environments, deployments, test data, test execution, and production feedback.
- Partner with cross-functional teams, business stakeholders, and clients to translate risks and customer needs into effective test coverage.
- Use AI-enabled tools for test generation, defect analysis, regression optimization, log analysis, and test data creation.
- Mentor QA engineers and influence developers to improve automation, code quality, testability, maintainability, and shared ownership of quality.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
- 10+ years of experience in software quality engineering and end-to-end testing, including technical leadership or lead QA experience.
- Strong hands-on automation and white-box testing experience with Java, Python, or both.
- Experience designing and maintaining test automation frameworks using Selenium WebDriver, Cucumber, Carina, or equivalent web-testing tools.
- Experience with API and web services testing and API automation frameworks.
- Strong understanding of object-oriented programming, software testing principles, test design techniques, and quality engineering practices.
- Experience with SQL and relational databases; PL/SQL, NoSQL databases, and Linux/UNIX experience are desirable.
- Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines and supporting build and deployment processes.
- Understanding of performance, integration, regression, data, security, and non-functional testing.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, ownership, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Preferred experience includes capital markets, financial risk analytics, counterparty credit risk, xVA, market risk, calculation-intensive or regulatory applications, cloud deployments, containers, microservices, messaging platforms, distributed systems, AI-enabled testing, and quality governance.
Benefits
- Health care coverage and wellness benefits.
- Generous flexible time off.
- Continuous learning resources and career development support.
- Competitive pay, retirement planning, continuing education, company-matched student loan contributions, and financial wellness programs.
- Family-focused perks, retail discounts, and referral incentive awards.