QA Lead

About Us

Transcend Street Solutions (www.transcendstreet.com) is a global Fintech company headquartered in New Jersey, USA, with a global technology center in Hyderabad. We are on an exciting journey to help capital market participants improve financial performance, operational efficiency, and risk management.

With game-changing technology solutions deployed at world-leading banks, broker-dealers, and custodians, Transcend has become the gold standard for liquidity, funding, and inventory solutions. Our mission is to help firms completely redefine how they manage and think about collateral, leading to increased liquidity, lower costs, and greater compliance.

Key Responsibilities

- Provide day-to-day leadership, management, and support of testing projects, including implementation, supporting infrastructure, and ongoing maintenance of the test suite.
- Build, manage, develop, and mentor a high-performing team of engineers.
- Develop software development and testing strategy utilizing industry standards; create roadmap and timeline of implementation based on business needs.
- Define and track reporting metrics and KPIs to measure performance, quality, and on-time delivery of the Software Test team. Maintain dashboards and produce monthly test performance reports for executive leadership.
- Ensure QA/Testing processes and procedures are followed consistently across projects and teams.
- Partner closely with Development and BA teams to deliver Transcend products with robust quality.
- Own overarching delivery test strategies and test approaches for projects.
- Lead multi-disciplinary, high-performance work teams distributed across remote locations.
- Expand DPS capabilities through a customer-obsessed, services-driven digital solutions platform leveraging data and AI to deliver automated and personalized experiences.
- Manage and escalate delivery impediments, risks, issues, and changes tied to engineering initiatives.
- Interact with key business partners to recommend solutions that align with strategic business needs.

Qualifications

- A Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field
- Minimum of 14 years of strong testing experience
- Minimum of 4+ years of strong QA Automation experience.
- Expert in API Automation testing and exposure to REST API framework , Automation experience using any of the tools – Postman, Rest assured will be effective for the role.
- Strong Experience in Integration testing (SIT) and ability to understand the system/Data Flow architecture and guide the team to build effective test scenarios.
- Experience with Automation frameworks and tools like Selenium.
- Good understanding on various testing methodologies, SOLID design Principles and Performance testing principles.
- Demonstrate expertise in black box and grey box testing methodologies, experience with standard QA and development tools
- Expert in implementing and optimizing agile development and continuous integration / continuous delivery methodologies
- Good Experience working with SQL and large volumes of data.
- Working knowledge of Java programming is a plus.
- Knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented design is a plus
- Experience with Amazon Web Services and cloud specific PaaS and SaaS solutions

Qualities

- Strong people management skills, with a proven ability to hire and grow talented programmatic and user-level personnel
- Inclined to see problems from the point of view of the customer and of our customer base as a whole
- Strong attention to detail and extremely well-organized
- Ability to manage multiple projects with competing priorities
- Ability to be able to interface with the business and recognize their needs and priorities
- Ability to work cross functionally with product, service design and operations across the organization
- Demonstrated passion for excellence with respect to Engineering services, education, and support
- Strong interpersonal skills, ability to navigate through a complex and matrixed internal environment
- Ability to work collaboratively with regional and global partners in other functional units
- Ability to navigate a complex organization and to influence and lead people across cultures at a senior level

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