Lead Quality Assurance Analyst

• Own end-to-end test strategy and planning for assigned APL products and programs, including scope definition, test approach, timelines, and entry/exit criteria.

• Lead System Integration Testing (SIT) and regression efforts across APL components, upstream/downstream services, and client workflows, ensuring full coverage of critical business scenarios.

• Design, review, and optimize test assets including test plans, test cases, test data, and traceability to requirements, ensuring repeatability and auditability.

• Coordinate day-to-day QA delivery for your area: task assignment, progress tracking, risk identification, and timely escalation to Product Delivery, Engineering, and QA management.

• Mentor and guide QA analysts on test design, domain knowledge, defect investigation, and best practices, helping to build a strong APL QA bench.

• Drive defect management rigor: triage issues, facilitate defect review with engineering and product teams, ensure clear root cause analysis, and verify fixes through targeted regression.

• Partner with APL Engineering and Product Delivery to understand new features, technical designs, and impacts, translating them into robust test strategies and regression suites.

• Collaborate with automation and performance teams to identify candidates for automation, provide functional expertise, and help maintain a healthy balance between manual and automated coverage.

• Support client-facing testing cycles (e.g., UAT, pilot, parallel runs) by preparing test packs, reproducing client issues, and providing clear evidence and communication.

• Champion QA process and standards within APL: contribute to test process improvements, documentation, checklists, and reusable templates for SIT and regression.

• Ensure compliance with internal controls and quality gates, including documentation, approvals, and sign-offs required for releases into higher environments and production.

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Required Qualifications

• 8+ years of total QA experience in enterprise software, with 3+ years in a lead/ownership role (test lead, module lead, or equivalent).

• Strong experience with system, integration, and regression testing for complex, data-intensive platforms (preferably in wealth / asset management, brokerage, or capital markets).

• Solid knowledge of test design techniques, defect lifecycle, root cause analysis, and risk-based testing.

• Hands-on experience with test management and tracking tools (e.g., JIRA, Confluence, Zephyr/Xray or similar).

• Strong SQL and data validation skills for validating calculations, positions, and reports across multiple systems.

• Demonstrated ability to coordinate across multiple teams and time zones, managing dependencies and resolving blockers proactively.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to clearly articulate risks, trade-offs, and test outcomes to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

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Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with APL-based platforms or similar portfolio management, trading, or advisory systems.

• Exposure to unified managed accounts (UMA), separately managed accounts (SMA), model management, rebalancing, or performance reporting.

• Familiarity with test automation frameworks (e.g., Selenium, API test tools) and continuous integration concepts; ability to partner effectively with automation engineers.

• Prior experience in a global, matrixed organization with distributed engineering and QA teams.

• Experience contributing to or defining QA process improvements, standard operating procedures, or quality metrics.