QA Engineering Lead
Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation3 days ago
Tralee, IrelandStaff+
Responsibilities
- Own the overall QA strategy, testing governance, standards, controls, and quality measures for the SuccessFactors implementation.
- Lead QA Engineers and direct testing approach, coverage, execution, and continuous process improvement.
- Develop test plans and strategies covering application, UI/UX, automation, database, and ETL testing.
- Review business and technical requirements to identify testable conditions, gaps, risks, and acceptance criteria.
- Assess and communicate quality risk, testing progress, and release readiness to senior stakeholders.
- Lead and oversee application, automated, database, and ETL testing while remaining hands-on where required.
- Perform end-to-end data validation, write complex SQL queries, and develop Python scripts to identify data-quality issues.
- Review Databricks jobs and pipeline runs to verify successful ETL completion and required data-quality standards.
- Define and manage test scenarios and test cases in Jira and track defects through resolution.
- Collaborate with developers and technology teams to investigate issues, remediate defects, and escalate significant quality risks.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant experience.
- At least 7 years of experience across application, database, and automation testing, including leadership of complex QA delivery.
- Experience leading QA teams and directing testing across complex technology programmes.
- Strong hands-on experience with database testing, advanced SQL, Python, Databricks, and test automation frameworks such as Playwright or similar.
- Strong understanding of ETL processes, data validation, and testing across integrated systems.
- Experience developing test strategies, establishing QA governance, assessing release readiness, and improving testing standards and automation practices.
- Experience using test and defect management tools such as Jira.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder-management skills across complex global technology environments.
- Advantageous experience with SAP SuccessFactors or another enterprise HR platform.
- Advantageous experience with Java, JavaScript, VBScript, RFT, HP Quality Center or similar tools, and Confluence.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement with at least three days per work week in the Tralee office.
- Employees may work from home and from an SMBC office and must live within a reasonable commuting distance of the office.
- Reasonable accommodations are available during the candidacy and application process for applicants with disabilities.
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About Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation
Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation provides corporate, investment, and commercial banking services—such as lending, capital markets, global trade finance, treasury/FX, and transaction banking—to corporate, institutional, and consumer clients. Headquartered in Tokyo, it is the core banking subsidiary of Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group (SMFG), one of Japan’s three major banking groups, whose shares trade in Tokyo and as NYSE ADRs (SMFG). SMBC serves clients through a network spanning nearly 40 countries.