Director Quality Engineer

Experience: 15+ years in QA/Performance Engineering with at least 5+ years in leadership roles. Proven track record of managing 50+ engineers in high-growth fintech/financial services companies.Technical Expertise: Strong background in large-scale distributed systems testing. Expertise in performance, load, stress, soak, and chaos testing frameworks. Solid understanding of system design validation and non-functional quality metrics. Familiarity with cloud-native environments (AWS/K8s), CI/CD, and observability tooling.Domain Knowledge: Strong fintech/financial services background (trading platforms, payments, banking, etc.)
Deep understanding of regulatory and compliance needs in financial applications.Leadership Soft Skills: Exceptional people leadership, mentoring, and organizational scaling skills. Strong stakeholder management, able to influence engineering and business leadership. Strategic thinker with a data-driven approach to decision-making. You will be mining through these tasksLeadership Strategy Lead and grow the QA Performance Engineering teams (50+ engineers across QA, automation, and performance). Define the long-term strategy for Quality Engineering and Performance testing aligned with business growth and regulatory requirements. Establish a culture of ownership, accountability, and excellence in testing at scale.Quality Engineering Drive automation-first mindset across functional, regression, and integration testing. Ensure end-to-end system validation for trading, payments, custody, and compliance flows. Own test strategy for large-scale distributed microservices and high-throughput APIs.Performance Scalability Engineering Lead design and execution of performance testing for systems expected to handle 1M+ TPS with <50ms latency. Build frameworks for continuous performance benchmarking and capacity planning. Partner with SRE, DevOps, and Product Engineering teams to proactively identify and fix bottlenecks.Non-Functional Testing (NFR) Ensure robust coverage for reliability, availability, failover, recovery, and disaster resilience. Champion security, compliance, and data integrity testing within QA processes. Oversee system design testing, chaos testing, and fault injection frameworks.Collaboration Stakeholder Management Partner closely with Product, Platform, and Security teams to ensure regulatory compliance. Provide executive-level reporting on quality, resilience, and risk posture. Influence cross-functional teams to adopt best practices in testing, monitoring, and release validation.