QA/Associate Director, Software Engineering Specialist

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HSBC is one of the largest banking and financial services organisations in the world, with operations in 64 countries and territories. We aim to be where the growth is, enabling businesses to thrive and economies to prosper, and, ultimately, helping people to fulfil their hopes and realise their ambitions.

We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Associate Director, Software Engineering Specialist 

In this role, you will:

• Overall responsibility for the test function and its execution.

• Engage with key stake holders to establish demand

• Standardization & rolling out of common approach to testing across all the delivery streams

• Establish testing processes, including regression, performance & non-functional testing for all delivery streams

• Communicate, monitor, track and report testing progress to the stakeholders and ensure risks, actions and issues identified and effectively managed.

• Understand complexities and dependencies with upstream and downstream systems.

• QA project and testing outputs, ensuring they have been reviewed and signed off by the appropriate groups prior to test execution.

• Establish feedback cycle to improve the testing process

• Monitor and report on the progress of testing using various test reports

• Ensure well structured, fully documented, executable test scripts and conditions

• Ensure test results and test logs maintain and meet programme or project audit requirements.

• Lead the test automation work and should be able to guide/help team members with technical issues

• Assist in team development while holding teams accountable for their commitments, removing roadblocks to their work; leveraging organizational resources to improve capacity for project work; and mentoring and developing team members.

• Promote empowerment of the team, ensure that each team member is fully engaged in the project and making a meaningful contribution, and encourage a sustainable pace with high levels of quality for the team.

• Managing stakeholder communications and helping to implement an effective system of project governance

To be successful in this role, you should meet the following requirements:

• 10 – 15 years of experience in QA management and delivering complex technology solutions

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills as he/she has to work in global environments.

• Prior experience of leading testing for a project/module from establishing testing processes to execution and maintaining test log for audit purpose.

• Understand the testing effort by analysing the requirements of project.

• Develop the test plan for the tasks, dependencies and participants required to mitigate the risks to system quality and obtain stakeholder support for this plan.

• Assign task to Test Team members and track the progress/support the team members where required.

• Hands on experience on test automation using Java and Selenium, should be well versed with Version Control(GIT), CI/CD tools, Maven and SQL.

• Experience of Agile delivery techniques, having delivered using Agile methodology in previous roles.

• Self-motivated, enthusiastic and proven fast learner

• Takes ownership of tasks assigned to ultimate resolution

• Willingness to learn and quick to adapt to changing requirements

  What additional skills will be good to have?

• Surveillance / Communication Surveillance domain experience

• Experience on products like Conduct Surveillance, CA Data Minder or Conduct Intelligence will be a huge plus.

• Experience on GCP or any other cloud platform

You'll achieve more when you join HSBC.

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Issued by – HSDI