QA Lead for Leading FX Analytics and Delivery platform - Vice President

Job Title

QA Lead for Leading FX Analytics and Delivery platform

Role Summary

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Role Description

Who we are looking for

At Global Link Digital, a division of State Street Global Markets, our goal is to be the leading distribution platform that delivers access to financing, liquidity, and asset intelligence across electronic markets.

Modern distribution of product across State Street, reducing silos and creating new solutions to natively cross sell and generate 3rd party revenue; dramatically enhancing our customer experience through a cutting-edge design system and single sign-on framework.

The objective is to provide integrated connectivity to State Street-owned and external trading venues, and trading-related services providing transparency throughout the end-to-end trade lifecycle.

State Street Global Market - GlobalLink - BestX® is a technology company, delivering independent open-architecture real-time analytics, that operate autonomously from any liquidity provider or execution venue. Our analytics create a level playing field across which clients can assess and compare the quality of their FX, Fixed Income, Equities, Commodities and Crypto trades and demonstrate best execution. We are recognized by more than 140 clients as the Industry Standard for TCA & Best Execution Analytics. Our Clients are Asset Managers, Hedge Funds, Banks & Sovereign Wealth Funds. We help Clients to Define, Achieve, Evidence and Record a process of Best Execution. Founded in 2016, BestX has won the Risk Market Technology Award for Best Execution product of the year 6 times since 2017.

We offer a collaborative environment where technology skills and innovation are valued in a global organization. We’re looking for top technical talent to join our team and deliver creative technology solutions that help us become an end-to-end, next-generation financial services company.

Join us if you want to grow your technical skills, solve real problems and make your mark on our industry.

We are looking to hire a QA Lead (including Functional, Automation testing) for BestX and GlobalLink Digital platform

Key Responsibilities & Experience Range

• Candidate will be responsible for end to end QA execution from Global Link, India
• Candidate will responsible for managing, hiring, training, and mentoring a diverse team of QA engineers (functional and automation)
• Candidate will be managing delivery from multiple teams locally and reporting to matrix organization
• Responsible for building and improving efficiency of team, reducing the regression cycle time, upskilling, cross-skilling of team members
• Participate and contribute in driving the global QA strategy for Global Link under the guidance of global leadership

Build a culture of finding creative solutions for complex software and business issues and apply these solutions to resolve problems

What you and your team will be responsible for

As QA team you will

• Maintain/Improve existing UI, Server-Side and Integration testing frameworks/scripts.
• Strong knowledge on Selenium, Cypress with Java and API testing.
• Better understanding of Automation Objects and Integrations across various platforms/applications etc.
• Evaluate product functionality and create test strategies and identify performance tuning areas to assess product quality.
• Individual contributor exploring opportunities to improve performance and suggest/articulate the areas of improvements importance/advantages to management.
• Integrate with SCM infrastructure to establish a continuous build and test cycle using CICD tools.
• Comfortable working on Linux/Windows environment(s) and Hybrid infrastructure models.
• Establish processes and tools set to maintain automation scripts and generate regular test reports.
• Peer review to provide feedback and to make sure the test scripts are flaw-less.

Core/Must have skills

Primary Skills (Must Have)

• Stakeholder management with ability to work with global teams and leading multiple QA teams of different sizes
• Proven experience in creating and driving the QA strategy for Enterprise / BU – While managing the present solutions with eyes on future
• Hands-on Experience in different automation strategy & tools with key focus on all automation paradigms (UI/ WhiteBox/GreyBox/Performance/API), Experience with automation tools (QTP, Selenium, UFT) and/or experience with Java or Perl programming
• Experience with and understanding of databases (Oracle, SQL) along with familiarity of testing applications on different OS (Unix/Linux & Windows, iOS,Android)
• Strong understanding of distributed applications, asynchronous systems, messaging platforms and micro-services architecture.
• Work with QA Leads & stakeholders (Dev/Product) to define test strategy and research technologies and methodologies which will improve our test practices.
• Experience in hiring correct right talent and building fungible teams that can deliver on multiple products.
• Experience in guiding teams on software Audit from Risk & compliance perspective.
• Knowledge of FIX protocol, SWIFT messages  is desirable
• Knowledge of Financial transaction workflows like clearing, STP, Order management  is desirable
• Superior analytical and problem solving abilities with strong troubleshooting, debugging, and analysis skills
• Solid understanding of the software development lifecycle especially Agile methodologies
• Strong working knowledge of software build and release management processes such as maintaining QA environment would be a plus.
• Self-motivated, creative problem solver, organized, and responsible leader to bring in a good team culture
• Technical team management skills to lead technology teams with varied technology and functional delivery
• Ability to own the end-to-end responsibility and accountability for all QA delivery from India

• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively.
• Ability to learn new technologies.

• Ability to understand the big picture and have leadership acumen

• 15+ years prior experience in Software QA with complete grasp of QA process, testing life cycle, Various automation techniques, audit and 360 degree view of software testing, SDLC
• Bachelor’s/Master’s Degree in Computer Science combined with relevant work experience

Good to have skills

Test automation using BDD/Cucumber / TestNG combined with strong hands-on experience with Java with Selenium.  Especially working experience in WebDriver.IO

Ability to effectively articulate technical challenges and solutions

Work experience in qTest, Jira, WebDriver.IO

Work Schedule

Hybrid

Keywords (If any)

 Automation, QA Lead

Why this role is important to us

State Street Global Market - GlobalLink - BestX® is a technology company, delivering independent open-architecture real-time analytics, that operate autonomously from any liquidity provider or execution venue. Our analytics create a level playing field across which clients can assess and compare the quality of their FX, Fixed Income, Equities, Commodities and Crypto trades and demonstrate best execution. We are recognized by more than 140 clients as the Industry Standard for TCA & Best Execution Analytics. Our Clients are Asset Managers, Hedge Funds, Banks & Sovereign Wealth Funds. We help Clients to Define, Achieve, Evidence and Record a process of Best Execution. Founded in 2016, BestX has won the Risk Market Technology Award for Best Execution product of the year 6 times since 2017.

We offer a collaborative environment where technology skills and innovation are valued in a global organization. We’re looking for top technical talent to join our team and deliver creative technology solutions that help us become an end-to-end, next-generation financial services company.

Join us if you want to grow your technical skills, solve real problems and make your mark on our industry.

About State Street

What we do. State Street is one of the largest custodian banks, asset managers and asset intelligence companies in the world. From technology to product innovation, we’re making our mark on the financial services industry. For more than two centuries, we’ve been helping our clients safeguard and steward the investments of millions of people. We provide investment servicing, data & analytics, investment research & trading and investment management to institutional clients.

Work, Live and Grow. We make all efforts to create a great work environment. Our benefits packages are competitive and comprehensive. Details vary by location, but you may expect generous medical care, insurance and savings plans, among other perks. You’ll have access to flexible Work Programs to help you match your needs. And our wealth of development programs and educational support will help you reach your full potential.

Inclusion, Diversity and Social Responsibility. We truly believe our employees’ diverse backgrounds, experiences and perspectives are a powerful contributor to creating an inclusive environment where everyone can thrive and reach their maximum potential while adding value to both our organization and our clients. We warmly welcome candidates of diverse origin, background, ability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity and personality. Another fundamental value at State Street is active engagement with our communities around the world, both as a partner and a leader. You will have tools to help balance your professional and personal life, paid volunteer days, matching gift programs and access to employee networks that help you stay connected to what matters to you.

State Street is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer.

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