Associate Director Quality Engineering Chennai in Chennai, भारत

Responsibilities

• Define and lead software testing strategy, plans, test cases, quality improvements, and testing outcomes at the program or portfolio level.
• Lead testing for complex features spanning multiple teams, including functional, system, integration, regression, load, performance, and latency testing.
• Drive automation testing coverage and evaluate or migrate regression testing tools to the strategic enterprise automation framework.
• Assess performance-testing capabilities and improve them for future requirements.
• Analyze production stability, logs, testing metrics, risks, and defects; lead root-cause analysis, defect triage, escalation, and mitigation planning.
• Provide FX electronic trading domain expertise and respond to business-user questions about application functionality.
• Mentor, coach, and cross-train testing resources and promote consistent testing practices.
• Manage the use of AI-assisted testing tools and ensure strong prompt-engineering practices across testing teams.
• Collaborate with development and stakeholder teams to improve monitoring and observability in lower-lane environments.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering.
• 12+ years of experience in software testing, including experience with FX front-office electronic trading applications or business analysis.
• At least five years of lead experience.
• Deep subject-matter expertise in FX Spot, FX Forward, FX Swap, NDF, market data, venues, FX algorithms, market making, agency-based workflows, and electronic trading components.
• Understanding of distributed-system components and their implications for testing requirements.
• Experience with functional, regression, load, performance, and latency testing, plus strong observability and log-analysis skills.
• Strong UNIX command usage and experience testing FX flows on multi-dealer platforms such as FXall.
• Experience with automation testing frameworks and methodologies, business-driven test-case development, and test-driven test development methodologies.
• Basic understanding of C++ or Java.
• Knowledge of CI/CD flows and related tools, AI-assisted testing tools, and prompt-engineering techniques.
• Agile and functional-testing certification is applicable.