Director of Quality Assurance - Clearing / Securities Background

NO SPONSORSHIP - NO OPTDIRECTOR OF QUALITY ENGINEERINGLooking for a candidate who comes form a clearing house or securities background. If you don’t you need to come from a financial company and be very familiar with the industry. This is about cloud modernization, automation, cucumber, selenium, etc. SALARY: $170k - $220K plus 25% bonusYou will lead functional and integration testing, automation, governance. Functional integration and data validation needs. You will drive automation with cucumber based automation. Directs 1 or more teams 5-20 people. Responsibilities: Lead system integration testing (SIT) and regression testing across multiple applications, ensuring optimal test coverage. Drive automation-first approach using Cucumber based automation framework for UI, API, batch and Kafka layers. Establish and scale test data strategy, including synthetic test data approaches. Lead Creation of test data, detailed test cases for validating business functions and regression testing. Qualifications: Advanced knowledge of a development lifecycle and Quality Engineering under Waterfall and/or Agile methodologiesAbility to manage small- and large-scale projects and ensuring team efficiencyBroad-based knowledge of Lifecyle development, change control management, test planning, test and defect management Experience with AWS cloud deployments and microservices and event driven applications Technical Skills Familiarity with BDD and TDD concepts as it relates to test automationSDLC and testing tools such as Jira, Jenkins, Cucumber, SpiraTestRelational databases and query tools. (SQL Server, Oracle and DB2)Automated testing tool experience (Selenium, RestAssured, Cucumber,Bachelor's DegreePrior management experience of small to medium sized teams (5-20) with a track record of success