Senior QA Manager – Equity Derivatives Functional Automation

Description de la mission

Senior QA Manager – Equity Derivatives sought by leading investment bank based in Belfast.
Description

**Inside Ir35 – 3 days a week onsite**

As the IT QA Manager you will be responsible for overseeing and ensuring the quality and reliability of the bank’s software systems, applications, and technology platforms. You will lead a team of QA professionals and work closely with cross-functional teams, including development, operations, and business stakeholders, to deliver high-quality solutions that meet regulatory and business requirements.

Your role will involve establishing QA strategies, implementing best practices, and driving continuous improvement to enhance the bank’s software development lifecycle.

Strong communication and diplomacy skills are required in order to guide, influence and convince colleagues and stakeholders.

This role includes full assignment management responsibility of a team.

The candidate will have the following skills:
Quality Engineering
Excellent knowledge of software testing techniques and testing tools
Extensive experience of defining and creating Test strategies, Test plans and Test Scenarios/Scripts
Extensive experience of Functional and automated testing
Knowledge of CI/CD tools (e.g. Jenkins, UDeploy, BitBucket)
Experience of automation strategies
Knowledge of industry standard functional Test tools e.g. JIRA
High development standards for code quality, code review, unit testing, etc.
Able to define Test Environment strategy and therefore requirements

Business Domain skills
Understanding of Investment Banking – Essential
Understanding of Equities Derivatives financial products – Highly advantageous
Soft skills:
Collaborates with local and global stakeholders such as the QA team, production support team, environment management team, DBA team, etc. to ensure project stability and productivity.
Experience working with a global team
Requires communication and diplomacy skills and an ability to persuade and influence
Demonstratable experience:
Resolves complex and highly variable issues.
Analyses trends at an organisational level to improve processes; follows and analyses industry trends.
Develops and designs standards and procedures; ensures that they are adhered to throughout the software development life cycle.
Education:
Bachelor’s/University degree, Master’s degree preferred

Please apply within for further details or call on 07393149627
Alex Reeder
Harvey Nash Finance & Banking