Core Banking/QA/QC/Testing/Leadership/Testing - BFSI/Banking

Location: Chennai

Level : T5XX, 18 + years of experience

Reporting to: COO-Global Consumer Banking

Job Description as below:

- Ensure all projects within business unit comply with BPMS processes and tools

- Ensure zero escalations in the projects/programs and envisage and highlight project / program risks / issues proactively

- Provide insight to COO / CEO on business unit performance wrt delivery and process goals.

- Facilitate/ Conduct diagnostic reviews to improve performance

- Conduct audits of critical projects / process related trainings on need basis

- Ensure IQAs and external audits are conducted with minimal non conformances from projects

- Oversee and guide Quality Analysts / Quality Managers and monitor their activities

- Provide feedback /suggestions to BPEG team and share best practices/ lessons learnt to project teams / SQAs

- Customer interaction through steering committees, status updates and reviews

- Introduce and implement best practices and improvements in the business unit

A person with delivery exp / testing exp will be good

Location; Bangalore

Role: Director QA

Location: Bangalore

Reporting line: Reports to VP - QA

About the role:

- Ensures delivery against QA department goals and objectives, i.e. Meeting commitments and coordinating overall quality assurance schedule.

- Provides necessary definition, development and deployment of product quality assurance strategy, addressing all phases of product development.

- Focuses significant attention in automation of testing to take the product testing progressively to higher levels of quality assurance.

- Directly supervises quality assurance managers, team lead(s), QA/testers including the preparation and delivery of staff performance evaluations and career development activities.

- Mentor team through frequent one on ones, quarterly goals setting and tracking, annual performance reviews and other relevant managerial tasks.

- Work closely with development manager(s) and other peer managers in the product cycle to make necessary quality impact.

- Preparing QA plans, defect metrics and QA reports as required by the project.

- Reviewing development specifications to understand QA scope & impact.

- Effective communication & collaboration regarding issues, objectives, initiatives and performance to plan.

- Manages planning and execution of product testing efforts, including all associated resources to meet committed delivery dates.

- Responsible and accountable for flagging the timing of interdepartmental deliverables and the quality of their output.

- Works with project managers to develop project schedules and resource allocation models for QA related projects and other activities such as software deployment, customer integration, and professional services validation.

- Anticipates program release problems and takes corrective action, escalating as needed, to resolve and achieve commitments.

- Assures the viability, functionality and effectiveness of essential tools.

Key requirements and experience:

- Results-oriented: tenacious, gets things done

- Excellent manager: able to build and manage a world class team

- Excellent cross-group collaboration skills with the ability to work across functional areas and geographies

- Strong written and verbal communication skills

Educational background: Bachelor's degree in engineering from a good university

Other requirements: Relevant post-graduate qualification in technology or financial markets would be helpful

- Must have worked for an enterprise software company

- Financial markets domain knowledge would be an advantage but is not essential