VP - Quality Assurance (JR1022584)

Company Description

Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (BR), a $4 billion global Fintech leader and part of the S&P 500® Index, is a leading provider of investor communications and technology-driven solutions to banks, broker-dealers, asset and wealth managers and corporate issuers. At Broadridge, we do well by doing good. Our unique culture is guided by the Service-Profit Chain—the idea that success is mutual, directly connecting employee engagement, client satisfaction, and the creation of stockholder value. We enable better financial lives by powering investing, governance, and communications for our clients, their customers, and the financial services industry.

Broadridge is hiring! We have an opening for a Vice President of Quality Assurance. This is a unique opportunity to join an excellent team and have a meaningful impact on the Quality Engineering strategy, automation process and culture. This role will focus on building out a new ICS Quality Engineering - Center of Excellence. The ideal candidate will play a key role in driving the ICS Quality Transformation Strategy.

We are looking for strong leadership skills, prior experience leading transformation efforts and industry-leading technical abilities that enable you to significantly influence and improve the current practices followed by the team. We look for someone that has a combination of solid in-depth knowledge of QA standard methodologies, Test Automation Engineering, Performance Testing, Test Data Management, Security Verification, Mobile Testing and QA Tools. The Vice President will serve as a ground-breaking technical and people leader providing insights to the executive leadership team on quality, automation and process scalability, and building and leading a world class technical team.

Are you interested in a senior leadership role where the results of your contribution will have a significant influence on the business and be highly visible to company leadership? Then this might be the right opportunity for you!

Responsibilities:

• Provide senior guidance for a large and growing technology team of highly skilled QA Engineers across all QA towers
• Creates engineering and operational perfection, establishing metrics and process for assessment and improvements
• Be a change agent for the adoption of Quality Engineering practices within a heavily manually tested organization
• Collaborate closely with all ICS QA tower leads to ensure streamlined engineering processes to release new enhancements with high quality and on a timely basis
• Defines and drive the QA Test Automation strategy across the organization
• Establish an automated QA Mobile Testing practice
• Build and lead a new Test Data Management service offering to support the ICS QA towers
• Provide leadership and oversight to the QA Security Verification team. Optimizing current processes, improving metrics reporting and increasing the overall coverage/support scope of the team
• Implement unique and innovative solutions to optimize the current QA processes followed
• Benchmark our processes, tools, and metrics against other industry standard Quality measurements
• Recommends adjustments, corrections or changes that improve and/or simplify the overall processing or accuracy of the products produced documents systems and review steps for redundancies
• Lead and maintain testing environments and all applicable 3rd Party Test tool licenses
• Partner with developers, business analysts and other members of QA team to influence early testability guidelines, ensure proper test coverage and overall system reliability, performance, and quality to better utilize a “shift left” quality philosophy
• Build strong partnerships with non-US based global leaders and supporting resources
• Develop a culture (and personally emulate the values) of inter-group collaboration and partnership
• Provide performance management to direct reports including: Coaching/training, performance reviews, team building activities, vision and values

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• 15+ years of proven track record:
• As a software developer, QA Engineer, or SDET
• Hands on experience with Java or Selenium
• Designing, implementing, and running test cases
• Working with test processes, methodologies, tools, and technology
• Performing functional and UI testing, quality reporting
• 10+ years of technical QA management experience leading on and offshore resources
• Passion for driving standard methodologies in the testing space
• Thorough understanding of Functional, Stress, Performance, various forms of regression testing and mobile testing
• Knowledge of software engineering practices and agile approaches
• Experience building or improving test automation frameworks
• Proficiency CICD integration and pipeline development in Jenkins, Spinnaker or other similar tools
• Experience using test management tools like Quality Center & Jira
• Proficiency in UI automation (Serenity/Selenium, Robot, Watir)
• Experience in Gherkin (BDD /TDD)
• Ability to quickly tackle and diagnose issues within the quality assurance environment and communicate that knowledge to a varied audience of technical and non-technical partners
• Strong desire for establishing and improving product quality
• Stronger leader willing to take challenges head on while being part of a team

Preferred Qualifications

• Ability to work under timelines and within a team environment
• Experience in test automation using UFT, Selenium & Serenity
• UFT/Selenium experience in building object repositories, standard & custom checkpoints, parameterization, reusable functions, recovery scenarios, descriptive programming and API testing
• Knowledge of VBScript, C#, Java, HTML, and SQL
• Experience using GIT or other Version Control Systems
• Experience developing, supporting, and/or testing web applications
• Understanding of the need for testing of security requirements
• Ability to understand API – JSON and XML formats with experience using API testing tools like Postman or SoapUI
• Superb communication, collaboration, reporting, analytical and problem-solving skills

Required Education

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science Engineering, Information Systems or related field

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Additional Information

Broadridge is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, age or any other protected status. "Everyone Benefits from Diversity & Inclusion. Diverse & Inclusive Teams Drive Growth." US applicants: Click here to view the "EEO is the Law" poster. If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran, you may request a reasonable accommodation in the event you are unable or limited in your ability to use or access the Company?s career webpage as a result of your disability. You may request a reasonable accommodation(s) by calling 888-237-7769 or by sending an email to BRcareers@broadridge.com