Lead QA Engineer

About the Position

Our Client is a leading global financial markets infrastructure and data provider. Their purpose is driving financial stability, empowering economies, and enabling customers to create sustainable growth.

We are seeking a Lead QA Engineer to join a highly collaborative, cross-functional, software QA team responsible for functional testing, performance testing, and data validation across a variety of technologies. This role will be based in Beijing, with support both locally and from the wider teams.

Responsibilities

• Set project testing strategy/test plan: test environment, automation, performance, test data management, testing tools, etc.
• Lead functional/non-functional testing and business-oriented end-to-end integration.
• Set clear automation goals and drive automation implementation.
• Collaborate with Solution Architect and BA for non-functional requirements and set the performance testing plan.
• Follow best practices and QA methodologies and processes, working across critical stages of the product lifecycle from define to build.
• Understand the business use cases and carry out testing to ensure top quality of delivered solutions.
• Understand and analyze the Requirement Specifications and design test scenarios.
• Review and analyze completeness of test coverage.
• Carry out Functional testing and Non-functional testing.
• Solve technical issues and challenges in testing work.
• Execute Test Scripts, Defect tracking in applicable tool, Status Reporting, Defect Reporting.
• Oversees the maintenance of all customer technology solutions, ensuring all issues are resolved on time.
• Drive continuous improvement from a quality perspective.
• Responsible for communicating the status of ongoing work to stakeholders accurately.
• Provide coaching to junior staff (Associate Engineer, Engineer, and Senior Engineer) as needed.

Requirements

Must have

• 10+ years experience in Software QA or Development Engineer role.
• Proven ability to drive and implement test strategies/test plan, including automation, performance, E2E integration, test environment.
• In-depth knowledge of Software QA methodologies and experience of agile testing.
• Strong background with test automation.
• Excellent coding skills in Python or Java.
• Proven record to set the quality measurement model and drive continuous quality improvement.
• Excellent coaching skills.
• Good communication and influence skills.
• Excellent problem-solving skills.
• Good understanding of SDLC, CICD, and Git (source code repository).
• Experience with Jira, Confluence, and TestRail.
• Cloud testing experience (Azure, AWS, etc) and relevant certificates are preferred.

Nice to have

• Knowledge of financial services is a plus.

We Offer

• Competitive salary
• Opportunity to work in a leading global financial markets infrastructure and data provider.
• Remote work options
• Professional development budget

About the Company

Our Client is a leading global financial markets infrastructure and data provider. Their purpose is driving financial stability, empowering economies, and enabling customers to create sustainable growth.