QA Chapter Lead

• Attend all squad ceremonies including sprint planning, daily standups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
• Define acceptance criteria with the Product Owner before each sprint to ensure stories meet clear standards.
• Write and maintain automated test suites covering unit, integration, and end-to-end tests for the squad's domain.
• Own the squad's Definition of Done quality gate, ensuring nothing is released without meeting the criteria.
• Define and maintain QA standards across the function, including test pyramid structure, automation tools, naming conventions, coverage thresholds, and continuous integration gate configuration.
• Onboard new QA engineers to the chapter, setting baseline expectations and defining the onboarding process.
• Run the monthly QA Guild meetings with counterpart Chapter Leads to align tooling, frameworks, and quality standards across the engineering organisation.
• Evaluate, select, and maintain automation frameworks and tooling, including documentation for QA engineers.
• Report to the Head of Engineering on QA chapter health, covering coverage trends, flaky tests, automation backlog, and systemic quality issues.

• At least 5 years of software QA experience, including a minimum of 2 years in a Lead QA role overseeing test strategy across multiple teams.
• Strong skills in automation engineering with the ability to write maintainable, readable test code that runs reliably in continuous integration.
• In-depth experience with API testing including REST, contract testing, and integration test design.
• Experience defining and maintaining QA standards within Agile squads, contributing from the start of sprints.
• Ability to read and understand Java-based backend code and architecture to write accurate tests.
• Preferred experience in fintech, payments, or digital financial services environments.
• Preferred experience with performance and load testing related to payment systems and API concurrency.
• For one QA Chapter Lead role, mobile app testing experience on Android is mandatory.
• Preferred experience building or evolving QA chapters, guilds, or communities of practice across multiple teams.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted test generation tools for test case generation, regression triage, and synthetic test data creation using large language models.

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