Role & responsibilities QA Lead - Finacle for Banking Project QA Lead to manage and oversee the quality assurance activities for a Finacle core banking upgrade project (from version 10.x to 11.x). The ideal candidate will lead the QA strategy, planning, execution, and delivery of all testing phases, ensuring the stability and integrity of the upgraded Finacle platform Define and manage the overall QA strategy and test plan for the Finacle upgrade program. Lead and coordinate System Integration Testing (SIT), User Acceptance Testing (UAT) , regression, and interface testing across Finacle modules (CASA, Loans, Payments, Trade Finance, CRM, etc.). Review and approve test scenarios, test cases, and test data requirements. Supervise a team of manual and automation testers, ensuring timely and quality test execution. Coordinate with business analysts, developers, vendors (Infosys/Finacle), and project stakeholders to ensure requirement traceability and defect resolution. Ensure test environment readiness, batch job validations, and EOD/COB test execution. Manage test cycles, defect triage meetings, and quality dashboards for progress tracking. Identify QA risks, dependencies, and propose mitigation strategies. Drive test automation and integration with CI/CD pipelines wherever applicable. Strong understanding of Finacle core banking modules , upgrade procedures, and interface impacts. Hands-on experience in test management tools such as HP ALM, JIRA, Zephyr . Good understanding of Finacle scripting, batch processing, data migration, and validation techniques. Familiarity with automation tools (Selenium, UFT) and scripting languages is a plus. Excellent analytical, leadership, and stakeholder communication skills. Experience with Finacle 10.x to 11.x upgrade lifecycle. Strong working knowledge of SQL and Unix/Linux for data and log validation. 8+ years of QA experience in the banking domain , with at least 3 years on Finacle upgrade or implementation projects . Preferred candidate profile Chennai
