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Director Product, Quality / End-to-End Testing
$196k-225k (estimate)
Full Time
1 Week Ago
Apex Fintech Solutions is Hiring a Director Product, Quality / End-to-End Testing Near Bridgewater, NJ
Who We AreApex Fintech Solutions (AFS) powers innovation and the future of digital wealth management by processing millions of transactions daily, to simplify, automate, and facilitate access to financial markets for all. Our robust suite of fintech solutions enables us to support clients such as Stash, Betterment, SoFi, and Webull, and more than 20 million of our clients' customers.
Collectively, AFS creates an environment in which companies with the biggest ideas in fintech are empowered to change the world. We are based in Dallas, TX and also have offices in Austin, New York, Chicago, Portland, and Belfast.
If you are seeking a fast-paced and entrepreneurial environment where you'll have the opportunity to make an immediate impact, and you have the guts to change everything, this is the place for you.
AFS has received a number of prestigious industry awards, including:
Job Summary:As the Director of Quality and End-to-End Testing on our Ascend platform, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring the quality, reliability, and scalability of our innovative new platform. This role demands strategic vision (informed by experience), leadership and influence prowess, and a hands-on approach to drive the implementation of best practices in quality assurance throughout the development lifecycle, with a particular focus on executing within an agile environment and ensuring regression predictability.
Duties/Responsibilities:Strategic Leadership:
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB) CommitmentWe're looking for all kinds of people.
At Apex, we believe that wealth management and investing should be accessible to everyone, and we strive to create spaces to democratize investing for folks of all walks of life. Internally, we embrace diversity and are dedicated to creating an inclusive and equitable workplace, which reflects our company vision and mission. We value every team member's unique perspective and are committed to fostering a culture where everyone belongs. Join us in our mission to empower and celebrate individual differences.
Apex is committed to being an equal opportunity employer. We ensure that qualified applicants receive fair consideration for employment without discrimination based on sex, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, race, color, natural or protective hairstyle, genetics, religion, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law. Know your rights: workplace discrimination is illegal. We stand by this commitment to promote a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workforce.
Collectively, AFS creates an environment in which companies with the biggest ideas in fintech are empowered to change the world. We are based in Dallas, TX and also have offices in Austin, New York, Chicago, Portland, and Belfast.
If you are seeking a fast-paced and entrepreneurial environment where you'll have the opportunity to make an immediate impact, and you have the guts to change everything, this is the place for you.
AFS has received a number of prestigious industry awards, including:
- 2021, 2020, 2019, and 2018 Best Wealth Management Company - presented by Fintech Breakthrough Awards
- 2021 Most Innovative Companies - presented by Fast Company
- 2021 Best API & Best Trading Technology - presented by Global Fintech Awards
Job Summary:As the Director of Quality and End-to-End Testing on our Ascend platform, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring the quality, reliability, and scalability of our innovative new platform. This role demands strategic vision (informed by experience), leadership and influence prowess, and a hands-on approach to drive the implementation of best practices in quality assurance throughout the development lifecycle, with a particular focus on executing within an agile environment and ensuring regression predictability.
Duties/Responsibilities:Strategic Leadership:
- Develop and execute the quality assurance strategy for automated end-to-end testing on the Ascend platform, with emphasis on functional completeness and exception testing across business workflows, and business SME transparency.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align quality objectives with business goals, ensuring seamless integration of QA processes within an agile development environment.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives across the organization to enhance testing efficiency and effectiveness, leveraging agile methodologies.
- Develop and sustain strong, collaborative working relationships with other departments across Apex to build trust and understanding.
- Lead, mentor, and inspire a team of product, engineering, and testing professionals, emphasizing the importance of testing and agile practices.
- Foster a culture of quality, innovation, and accountability across technology and business partners, promoting agile principles such as iterative development and frequent feedback loops.
- Establish clear goals and performance metrics to evaluate team performance, with a focus on automated end-to-end system test coverage and agility in responding to changing requirements.
- Generate energy to motivate the team throughout the entire product cycle.
- Closely collaborate with other Product Managers and Business SMEs during the definition of new features and other initiatives that require cross-domain testing and expand the automated testing suite to cover these new workflows.
- Design and implement comprehensive end-to-end testing frameworks and methodologies, seamlessly integrating end to end testing across functional domains, operational services, and data delivery pipelines.
- Oversee the planning, execution, and analysis of end-to-end test scenarios, prioritizing testing efforts based on risk and impact analysis.
- Ensure thorough test coverage across all components and integrations of the platform, with a focus on identifying and mitigating regression risks of the client-facing API and UI surface.
- Define and enforce quality assurance processes and standards that are compatible with agile methodologies, promoting continuous integration and automated regression testing.
- Set testing strategy and direction for domain teams, support their efforts to continuously improve domain level testing, and provide leadership around best practices and tooling to accelerate testing coverage.
- Establish robust QA metrics and reporting mechanisms to track progress and identify areas for improvement, facilitating agile retrospectives and sprint reviews.
- Conduct regular audits and reviews to ensure compliance with QA standards and regulatory requirements, adapting processes as needed to support agile development practices.
- Drive automation initiatives to streamline testing processes and accelerate release cycles, with a specific focus on automating regression test suites within the promotion framework.
- Evaluate and implement appropriate testing tools and technologies to enhance efficiency and effectiveness, leveraging automation frameworks compatible with agile development practices.
- Champion innovation in test automation practices to stay ahead of industry trends, continuously improving regression testing capabilities within an agile environment.
- Collaborate closely with product management, development teams, and other stakeholders to prioritize testing activities and resolve issues within agile development sprints.
- Communicate QA status, risks, and recommendations to senior management and project stakeholders, providing visibility into end to end testing efforts and agile progress.
- Facilitate knowledge sharing and cross-functional collaboration to foster a culture of quality ownership within an agile development framework.
- Extensive knowledge of software testing methodologies, tools, and best practices, with a deep understanding of agile principles and practices.
- Strong leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to inspire and lead teams in an agile environment.
- Strong ability to listen, but also to question assumptions.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills and ability to adapt storytelling to different audiences based on their priorities and level of knowledge.
- Experience in building and managing high-performing QA teams within agile development frameworks.
- Expertise in test automation frameworks and tools (e.g., Selenium, Appium, JUnit), with a focus on automating regression test suites within agile workflows.
- Familiarity with agile development methodologies and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines, with a demonstrated ability to adapt QA processes to support agile practices.
- Excellent problem-solving abilities and attention to detail, with a proactive approach to identifying and mitigating regression risks within an agile environment.
- Certification in quality assurance (e.g., ISTQB) and agile methodologies (e.g., Scrum, Kanban) is a plus.
- Understanding of user experience, web development, API standards, and Agile practices, with a strong preference for best practices and incremental delivery.
- Ability to make decisions with imperfect information, lead without authority and be comfortable managing a team through ambiguity and complexity.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
- Proven experience (5-8 years) in a leadership role in quality assurance, with a focus on end-to-end testing, regression testing, and executing within an agile environment. Financial Services and/or multidisciplinary, enterprise environment, SaaS / Cloud Architecture, API platform, Legacy app consolidation, a plus.
- We are a hybrid working environment, you are expected to work from your local office 3 days/week
- Position requires 25% time for travel to other offices. (We’re a distributed company.)
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB) CommitmentWe're looking for all kinds of people.
At Apex, we believe that wealth management and investing should be accessible to everyone, and we strive to create spaces to democratize investing for folks of all walks of life. Internally, we embrace diversity and are dedicated to creating an inclusive and equitable workplace, which reflects our company vision and mission. We value every team member's unique perspective and are committed to fostering a culture where everyone belongs. Join us in our mission to empower and celebrate individual differences.
Apex is committed to being an equal opportunity employer. We ensure that qualified applicants receive fair consideration for employment without discrimination based on sex, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, race, color, natural or protective hairstyle, genetics, religion, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law. Know your rights: workplace discrimination is illegal. We stand by this commitment to promote a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workforce.
Job Summary
JOB TYPE
Full Time
SALARY
$196k-225k (estimate)
POST DATE
06/19/2024
EXPIRATION DATE
07/11/2024
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