Senior Quality Assurance Lead

Job ID: 26519 

Are you passionate about finance and IT, and want to take the next step in your career? We are currently looking for a Quality Assurance Lead to join our Service Area Finance team at Nordea. This role offers the opportunity to become a vital part our Quality Assurance Capability, that supports our DevOps teams who builds and maintain our IT solutions. 

About this opportunity  

Meet the Liquidity, Asset & Liability Management team. Our role is to manage the bank's balance sheet in relation to liquidity, interest rate risk in the banking book, hedge accounting, covered bond process and funds transfer pricing. We are in the middle of a journey to a modernised target architecture with a set of new technologies and pipelines, and we aim to establish strong QA enablers as a seamless part of our automated SDLC.

We are looking for someone who loves working with multicultural and collaborative teams, treat challenges with an open mind, and see their positive approach as one of their strongest skills. If this sounds like you, and you are eager to learn and develop as our new QA Lead, it might be you who we're looking for! 

The team is located in the Nordic countries, Poland and India, and this position is open Sweden, Finland and in Poland.

What you’ll be doing:

• Proactively work within our DevOps teams, establishing Nordea Quality Standard with focus on test maturity uplift and test automation
• Plan, lead and orchestrate test development and work in our DevOps teams
• You will ensure test compliance with a strong collaborative test management. We are responsible for both functional and non-functional testing, since we are responsible for both functional and non-functional testing
• Collaborate and proactively communicate and deliver with and to several business stakeholders regards test planning and test result communication
• With high standards and passion, quality assurance and test management in various kind and size of software development projects
• Show courage and ownership for the work to be done and take a proactive and independent approach to ongoing tasks
• Advocate for and understand the business value of testing and how to set up test status dashboards and graphs
• Continuously drive improvement focus projects and deliver high quality results

Who you are 

Collaboration. Ownership. Passion. Courage. These are the four key values that guide us in being at our best. We imagine that you enjoy learning and are excited about bringing your ideas to the table. You’re dependable, willing to speak up – even when it’s difficult – and committed to empowering others.

To succeed in this role, we believe that you have:

• Professional experience for more than 5 years in a Quality Assurance leadership role for various size of teams
• A minimum 5 years professional experience from working with test management tools (i.e. HP ALM, qTest or similar), as well as experience in managing functional- and non-functional testing, E2E-testing, test automation, test environment and test data management
• Vast professional experience from implementing test automations, and building frameworks for them
• Several documented projects where you have been the key leader during the entire project, preferably in a test automation environment
• Professional experience from working with DevOps and automated CI/CD pipelines is an advantage
• Knowledge and skills from working with SQL, Phyton skills, and Snowflake (we consider this very meritorious)

To be considered for this role, please be aware that you must have a valid permanent work permit in the country of hire, or an European citizenship.

If this sounds like you, get in touch!

Next steps

We kindly ask you to sumbit your application as soon as possible, but no later than 30/11/2024 . Any applications or CVs sent by email, direct messages, or any other channel than our application forms, will not be accepted or considered.

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 our customers and communities.

If you have any questions about our recruitment process, please reach out to our tech recruiter and main point of contact anna.dahlstrom@consult.nordea.com.

For candidates in Sweden: For union information, please contact finansforbundet@nordea.se or SACONordea@nordea.com.

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