Quality Assurance Lead to Nordea Technology

Job ID: 23355 

Now we are looking for a senior Quality Assurance Lead with experience of driving quality assurance and test management of large Data Warehouse- and ETL solutions.

At Nordea, we know our customers’ needs are changing – and we’re deeply committed to meeting them with the financial solutions of tomorrow. We’re creating an agile environment where we’re harnessing the power of technology – one where you can make an impact. So bring your skills, ideas and unique background. With us, you’ll find plenty of opportunities to grow and make your mark on something bigger. 

About this opportunity

Our Service Area “Data Technology”, provide highly reliable data to our Business and Regulatory analysis and reporting. We manage our Common Data Warehouse (CDW) which is a repository for any data within Nordea. The warehouse is built on Snowflake platform. 

Our area is organised in service domains, following a SAFe/agile operating model. We are highly engaged  in the QA and Testing capability, and we are motivated by our passion for quality assurance. We continuously strive to improve our way of working with support from standards, methods, tools and automation. Our culture is based on the values of passion, courage, ownership and collaboration.

Why us?

If you want to learn how we drive IT in a financial business organisation, you need to try it yourself and join Nordea. With us, you will have lots of opportunities to grow your skills in financial sector, data warehousing, and quality assurance in a SAFe/agile set up.

We enable your growth with internal trainings, communities, mentoring programs, and inspiring projects. We focus on everyday tasks at the same time emphasize development of our employees, support well-being and work-life balance. If you value working with international diverse teams in an inspiring working environment - Nordea is the place to be!
 

As the Quality Assurance Lead, you will work with hands-on management of quality assurance in our Data Warehouse Agile Release Train. You will establish and govern the test processes, test people, test enablers and test automaton solutions, this in compliance with Nordea Quality Assurance standards. You are working strategically with continuous test improvements, test resource management, stakeholder management and quality assurance uplift in the daily deliveries. 

You will be responsible for providing test- and technical leadership support, advocating Nordea quality standards and establishing quality as the whole team approach by knowledge sharing. You will assuring the focus on high quality of deliveries throughout the agile teams, securing great collaboration with stakeholders and effective QA communication within the initiative.

Some more specific tasks that you will do are: 

• Plan and run QA and test management for both functional and non-functional testing, in concurrence with multiple and versatile scrum teams in a SAFe agile release train setup
• Secure test enablers such us, test environments, and test data management
• Secure the test scheduling in alignment with release- and deployment plans
• Secure that the test evidence to changes is provided before going live decisions
• Identify impediments, risks and challenges corresponding to QA and test management and derive solutions to enable efficient QA, and test progress
• Proactively follow up, communicate and report the test status to key IT and business stakeholders regards QA risk status, testing progress, and improvement activities
• Actively spearheading test automation (design, development, maintenance and operations)
• Proactively advocate QA and test. Ensure continuous learning of team members and stakeholders in the agile release trains and Nordea test standards
• Resource management of QA and test skills

Who you are

Collaboration. Ownership. Passion. Courage. These are the values that guide us in being at our best – and that we imagine you share with us.  We believe that you are experienced in quality assurance and test management in various kind and size of software development projects. You have extensive experience of functional-, non-functional testing and test automation establishment. 
 

To succeed in this role, we believe that you:

• Are passioned in quality assurance and software testing
• Have strong communication- and coaching skills
• Show courage and ownership for the work to be done
• Are comfortable to work with stakeholders both on strategical and hands-on level
• Take a proactive and independent approach to ongoing project tasks
• Are curious of learning new techniques, and you are efficient in using tools for manage quality assurance and testing activities.
• Apply QA-related expertise and technology
• Have a professional and innovative approach to challenging situations
• Hve a continuous improvement focus when delivering results

Your experience and background: 

• Have at least 5+ years of experience as QA Lead (or similar), with various size of teams
• Experience testing data warehouse- and ETL solutions, advantage Snowflake platform
• Experience in cloud solutions, is an advantage
• Can understand and use SQL
• Have worked with complex systems consisting various technologies and diverse types of interfaces
• Have experience managing functional- and non-functional testing
• Have experience planning and follow up system test, system integration test and user acceptance test
• Have experience planning and follow up E2E-testing
• Experience to enable efficient testing, driving the planning and establishment of test automation, test environment and test data management
• Experience working with an agile mindset. Experience of SAFe is an advantage
• Great QA and test status and reporting skills via dashboards and presentations
• Have good English language skills to freely communicate with stakeholders (also native speakers)

If this sounds like you, get in touch!

Next steps

Submit your application no later than 15/05/2024. For more information, you’re welcome to contact, Lukasz Borek, lukasz.borek@nordea.com.

At Nordea, we know that an inclusive workplace is a sustainable workplace. We deeply believe that our diverse backgrounds, experiences, characteristics and traits make us better at serving customers and communities. So please come as you are.

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