We have a current opportunity for a Head of Test Strategy and Automation. The position will be based in UK. For further information about this position please apply.

What you'll do:

• Lead the entire testing and quality assurance function for multiple critical multi-year programs
• Develop and implement the overall testing and quality assurance strategy aligned with business goals and objectives.
• Lead and mentor a team of QA managers, test leads and testers across various locations, including onshore and offshore teams.
• Forster a culture of qulity and continuous improvement within the organization.
• Collaborate closely with senior management, product managers, development teams, and other stakeholders to define quality standards, testing schedules and deliverables.
• Lead the testing and quality for all the services within global liqudity.
• Analyze current issues, formulate hypotheses and test conclusions to determine appropriate solutions.
• Lead quality and test transformation, identify their business and technical issues related to "Quality and testing" and recommend solutions.
• Adapt and implement agile ways of working, tooling and automation across all liqudity services.
• Establish target operating model (TOM), quality control framework, testing framework, testing whitepaper and multi-year transformation roadmap for the organization.
• Chairperson of quality governance panel, overseeing policies and procedures establishment to ensure outcomes that meet global and local regulatory demand, and comply with industry and group standards.
• Take charge of change management, quality engineering, test optimization, automation, associated process, tools, operating model and implementation strategy that will help the organization improve quality.
• Ability in supporting automation across SDLC, with the ability to integrate of test data, environment and validation solutions, for internal build, vendor products, commercial and open source tools
• Oversee the integration of test automation, continuous integration/continous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines, and DevOps practices to optimize testing workflows.
• Develop a risk-based testing pattern to identify key migration risks, ensure data intergrity and accuracy during the data transfer between systems.
• Ensure compliance with relevant regulatory and data security requirements during the migration process, especially in industries with strict data protection regulations (e.g. GDPR).
• Maintain audit trails and documentation for all testing activities, ensuring traceability of test results, decisions and data migration verification processes.

What you will need to succeed in the role:

• Knowledge of liquidity domain
• 20+ years' experience in working in technology, with diverse teams and leading large global services with a matrix environment, utilizing virtual teams.
• 8+ years' experience in implementing agile ways of working and automation, A strong background in Software Development Lifecycle and experience with Agile methodology-based testing delivery.
• Proven track record in transforming manual testing team into test automation team, including solid experience in change management, quality engineering, test optimization, automation, associated process, tools, operating model and implementation strategy. The scale of the transforming experience must in global organization.
• Exceptional organizational skills with high attention to detail.
• Excellent communicator at all levels of the organization.
• Strong negotiating skills, comfortable executing against recommendations & plans by overcoming barriers and resistance.
• Ability to forge strong relationships and build a wide network throughout the firm.
• Consultative mind-set with an understanding of financials and commercials for running organizations.
• With Proactive and Can-Do attitude
• Strong skills in multi-tier architecture, cloud, API solutions, etc.
• Expertise in commercial and open source tools to support automation across SDLC, with the ability to integrate of test data, environment and validation solutions.
• In-depth knowledge of SDLC and various testing methodologies.
• Expertise in test automation, performance & endurance testing, security/penetration testing and CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience managing large scale projects, with tight deadlines and competing priorities.
• Proficiency in database systems (e.g. Oracle, MongoDB) as well as cloud database services.