Senior Quality Engineer

Introduction:

Global Transaction Banking (GTB) is a key growth business within TDS that provides the opportunity to make an impact with top tier organizations. We offer innovative solutions and treasury advisory services on large and complex liquidity, payments, and Ledger solution needs. Business constantly changes with macroeconomic conditions, unprecedented levels of innovation, interest rate environments, and foreign exchange movements. As a result, all GTB business lines continue to evolve to provide optimum Accounts, Ledger, liquidity, and payment solutions to clients.

Transaction Banking technology team focuses on delivering top-tier technology solutions to enable and grow the global GTB business.

Role Overview 

The Senior Quality Engineer – Trade Finance & Working Capital Solutions is responsible for defining, implementing, and governing the quality engineering strategy for applications and integrations supporting Trade Finance and Working Capital Solutions products. 

This role provides hands on leadership across test planning, automation, integration testing, non-functional validation, and release quality assurance to ensure solutions meet business, regulatory, operational, and customer expectations. Quality Engineering Lead partners closely with Business Systems Analysts, Solution Architects, Development Leads, Engineers, Product Owners, and Business stakeholders to promote a quality-first culture throughout the software delivery lifecycle. 

The role combines technical expertise, people leadership, delivery oversight, and quality governance within a highly regulated banking environment where platform reliability, accuracy, resiliency, and auditability are critical. 

Key Responsibilities 

Quality Strategy & Governance 

• Define and maintain the Quality Engineering strategy for Trade Finance and Working Capital Solutions applications and integrations 

• Establish quality standards, testing frameworks, and governance processes aligned with enterprise technology standards 

• Ensure testing activities support regulatory, risk, audit, security, and compliance requirements 

• Develop and track quality metrics, KPIs, defect trends, and release-readiness indicators 

• Drive continuous improvement of testing practices, tooling, and delivery processes 

Test Planning & Delivery Oversight 

• Oversee quality engineering activities across multiple initiatives and releases 

• Ensure comprehensive test coverage across functional, integration, regression, user acceptance, and non-functional testing 

• Review and approve test strategies, testing estimates, and quality plans 

• Ensure requirements, design artifacts, and test cases maintain full traceability 

• Partner with Development Leads and Product Owners to assess release readiness and production risk 

Automation & Engineering Excellence 

• Define and drive the adoption of test automation strategies across applications and integrations 

• Establish frameworks supporting API, integration, regression, and end-to-end automation testing 

• Promote shift-left testing practices within Agile delivery teams 

• Identify opportunities to improve testing efficiency through automation, tooling, and CI/CD integration 

• Ensure testing environments, test data management practices, and automation assets support long-term quality objectives 

Integration & End-to-End Testing 

• Lead testing efforts involving internal banking systems and third-party/vendor platforms 

• Ensure validation of complex integration flows between trade finance, payments, lending, treasury, accounting, and customer-facing systems 

• Coordinate end-to-end testing across multiple technology teams and business stakeholders 

• Validate data integrity, reconciliation processes, transaction lifecycle events, and exception management scenarios 

• Support onboarding and certification testing for new vendor platforms and integration partners 

Non-Functional Testing & Release Assurance 

• Define quality standards for performance, resiliency, security, recoverability, and operational readiness 

• Ensure appropriate testing is conducted for availability, disaster recovery, scalability, and failover capabilities 

• Partner with infrastructure, security, and operations teams to validate production readiness 

• Support release planning, defect triage, risk assessments, and deployment readiness reviews 

• Provide quality sign-off recommendations based on testing outcomes and risk tolerance 

People Leadership & Team Development 

• Lead and mentor Quality Engineers and Quality Analysts across the portfolio 

• Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, innovation, and continuous learning 

• Support career development, succession planning, and capability growth within the quality engineering function 

• Establish best practices and reusable testing assets across teams 

• Promote strong collaboration between quality engineering, development, architecture, and business teams 

Stakeholder & Vendor Management 

• Partner with business stakeholders to ensure quality objectives align with business outcomes 

• Act as the primary quality representative in delivery governance, release reviews, and steering discussions 

• Collaborate with third-party vendors and implementation partners to ensure quality expectations are met 

• Communicate testing progress, quality risks, and mitigation plans to senior stakeholders 

• Support audit reviews and regulatory assessments related to solution quality and controls 

Required Qualifications 

Experience & Leadership Skills 

• 12+ years of progressive experience in Quality Engineering, Software Testing, or Quality Assurance roles 

• 5+ years of experience leading quality engineering teams within Banking or Financial Services environments 

• Proven experience managing quality assurance activities across complex enterprise technology programs 

• Strong understanding of software delivery lifecycle, testing methodologies, and release management 

• Excellent leadership, communication, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills 

• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and risk assessment capabilities 

Technical Competencies 

Quality Engineering & Testing 

• Functional Testing 

• Integration Testing 

• End-to-End Testing 

• Regression Testing 

• User Acceptance Testing (UAT) 

• Test Management and Defect Lifecycle Management 

Automation & Tooling 

• API Testing (Postman, ReadyAPI or equivalent) 

• Test Automation Frameworks (Selenium, Playwright, Cypress or equivalent) 

• CI/CD quality integration 

• Test Data Management 

Integration Technologies 

• REST APIs 

• MQ Messaging 

• Web Services 

• SFTP/File-Based Integrations 

• Event-Driven Integration Concepts 

Data & Technical Skills 

• SQL and database validation techniques 

• JSON and XML 

• Relational database concepts 

• Distributed application architecture fundamentals 

Delivery & Governance 

• Agile/Scrum 

• Waterfall Delivery 

• SDLC and STLC methodologies 

• Change, Release, and Defect Management processes 

Tools 

• Jira 

• Confluence 

• Git/Bitbucket 

• Test Management Platforms 

• Microsoft Office Suite 

Nice-to-Have Qualifications 

• Domain expertise in Trade Finance & Working Capital Solutions, including: 

• Letters of Credit 

• Standby Letters of Credit 

• Documentary Collections 

• Supply Chain Finance 

• Payables Finance 

• Receivables Finance 

• Dynamic Discounting 

• Experience testing vendor platforms supporting Trade Finance and Supply Chain Finance operations 

• Experience working within large Canadian banking organizations 

• Knowledge of ISO 20022 and payment integration standards 

• Industry certifications such as: 

• ISTQB Advanced 

• Certified Agile Tester 

• ITIL 

• SAFe 

• PMP