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Head of Quality Engineering

Summary

Join Amount, a digital transformation partner for financial institutions, as the Head of Quality Engineering, Software Quality. Lead a dynamic team, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and drive the implementation of a scalable quality assurance program. Enhance software quality, ensure product functionality, and deliver an exceptional user experience.

Requirements

• Minimum of 10 years of experience in quality engineering, with at least 5 years in a leadership role
• Deep knowledge of SaaS and fintech, especially in account origination and decisioning, aligning quality engineering with market and client needs
• Expertise in software development, testing methodologies, and test automation tools, leveraging emerging technologies for efficiency and client delivery
• Proven team leadership, fostering accountability and commitment to deliver results, ensuring team members meet their promises
• Strong understanding of product functionality and user experience, aligning quality efforts with business goals
• Excellent communicator, capable of explaining complex concepts to non-technical stakeholders and leading effective discussions and decisions
• Skilled in iterative problem-solving, rapidly trying, failing, and succeeding to enhance quality practices
• Experienced in budgeting and resource management, optimizing costs and preparing budget proposals
• Adaptable in a fast-paced startup environment, working with urgency to meet changing priorities

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic leadership in quality management, fostering a culture of excellence and continuous improvement
• Create and execute a scalable SaaS-driven quality assurance strategy that aligns with business goals and product requirements, focusing on automation, product functionality and user experience
• Implement and optimize automated quality assurance processes for efficient and effective delivery of consumer and small business products
• Integrate quality processes into CI/CD pipelines for seamless testing automation and efficient software release
• Collaborate with product management, and operations for integrated automated quality assurance on products like personal loans, credit cards, and fraud models across both consumer and small business lending
• Work closely with development to ensure a collaborative handoff from code development to QA
• Set and track quality assurance metrics to drive visibility into performance, accountability and investments needed to improve trends
• Evaluate and manage third-party partners to help enhance and optimize our ability to execute with speed and accuracy as it pertains to Quality assurance
• Capacity planning across platforms and ensuring QA efforts remain on budget from a timeline and personnel rate
• Design and implement automated testing frameworks to boost efficiency and test coverage for SaaS solutions
• Manage defect tracking to promptly identify and resolve issues with cross-functional team support
• Plan and conduct performance testing, optimize software for scalability and responsiveness, and stay current with emerging technologies
• Identify and mitigate risks to product quality, addressing the specific challenges of our fintech SaaS platform