Job Title: QA Lead Financial Markets
Job Location: New York, New York (1 day onsite as needed)
Job Type: Contract
Understanding of trade lifecycle (Order Execution Allocation Settlement)
A global bank is seeking a highly skilled QA Lead Financial Markets. The Test Lead will bring a strong hybrid background in manual testing, automation, and UAT coordination, combined with hands-on experience in the Financial Markets domain.
This role will play a critical part in ensuring end-to-end quality assurance across the SDLC, supporting regulatory-compliant and high-impact financial applications.
This role requires strong leadership skills, hands-on testing experience, and the ability to work effectively with Business, Technology, Operations, and external vendors in a fast-paced financial services environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end testing activities across project deliveries, including System Integration Testing (SIT), User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Regression Testing, and Production Validation.
- Develop and maintain test plans, schedules, and testing governance artifacts.
- Coordinate testing activities across multiple teams, business stakeholders, vendors, and dependent applications.
- Define test scope, entry/exit criteria, test scenarios, and test execution approaches.
- Perform functional, manual, and exploratory testing to validate business workflows
- Execute and maintain regression and sanity test suites
- Ensure traceability between requirements, test cases, and defects
- Drive risk identification, mitigation planning, and issue management throughout the testing lifecycle.
- Ensure business sign-off and production readiness
- Work closely with Dev, BA, and business teams to prioritize and resolve issues
- Ensure proper test evidence and audit documentation for compliance requirements
- Collaborate with Product Owners, Business Analysts, Developers, and Ops teams
- Support Agile ceremonies (Sprint planning, backlog refinement, demos)
- Communicate test progress, risks, and dependencies clearly to stakeholders
- Develop and maintain automation scripts using tools such as Selenium / Ingenious / similar frameworks
- Participate in automation framework design and enhancement
- Execute automated tests within CI/CD pipelines to support continuous testing
Required Skills & Experience
- 6+ years of experience in software testing (manual + automation)
- Strong knowledge of SDLC, STLC, and Agile methodologies
- Experience with test management tools (ADO, JIRA, etc.)
- Hands-on experience in UI/API automation tools (Selenium, Playwright, Ingenious, etc.)
- Understanding of CI/CD pipelines and continuous testing practices
- Proven experience in UAT coordination and stakeholder engagement
- Strong skills in test case design, defect lifecycle management, and reporting
Domain Expertise:
- Experience in Financial Markets / Capital Markets domain
- Understanding of trade lifecycle (Order Execution Allocation Settlement)
- Exposure to regulatory/reporting systems (e.g., CFTC reporting, trade validation)
- Experience with data validation / file-based testing (e.g., trade or regulatory outputs)
- Knowledge of automation for data reconciliation or reporting systems
- Familiarity with banking messaging systems (MQ, APIs, etc.)
Key Competencies:
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management
- Ability to work in cross-functional, global teams
- High attention to quality, traceability, and audit readiness
- Improves automation coverage and efficiency
- Ensures audit-ready, compliant testing in regulated environments
- Drives high-quality, predictable delivery outcomes across releases
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