AVP Quality Engineering Manager, SDET

Are you a team player? Are you curious to learn? Are you interested in working in meaningful projects? Do you want to work with cutting-edge technology? Are you interested in being part of a team that is working to transform and do things differently? If so, LPL Financial is the place for you!

Excited to learn more? If so, then this could be the role for you!

Job Overview:

As an AVP, Quality Engineering Manager, you’ll serve as a strong and versatile hands-on technical leader. Successful leaders at LPL communicate well with teams and leaders of the organization, have active listening skills, ask great questions, and provide good development feedback. 

Responsibilities:

Our ideal candidate is a servant leader who can lead multiple parallel initiatives – big and small - with attention to detail, manage outcomes, and is passionate about CI/CD/DevOps/Software Quality Engineering.

• Lead a team of Software Development Engineers in Test (SDET’s) working in Agile model supporting delivery teams to achieve consistent, predictable, high quality releases by implementing common practices, nextgen AI tools, metrics, automation frameworks and oversight and delivering high quality solutions that meet business objectives in a flexible, collaborative and rapidly changing environment.

• Manage resources across different geographical locations and offshore vendors

• Work as a leader/trainer in a large, complex QA organization, with a demonstrated ability to implement scalable automation solutions•

• Drive innovative testing solutions within a complex Enterprise Platform

• Educate the team with Security, Accessibility scans/testing, PLSQL

• Attract, hire, empower, and develop the best engineers    

• Driving quality metrics to improve customer quality

• Drive release efficiency, reduce regression cycle time, and time to market

• Drive higher test coverage through advanced strategies and team upskilling on securities trading domain knowledge.

What are we looking for?

We want strong collaborators who can deliver a world-class client experience. We are looking for people who thrive in a fast-paced environment, are client-focused, team oriented, and are able to execute in a way that encourages creativity and continuous improvement.

Requirements:

• Candidate must possess a combination of one of the following:

  • Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science or similar, plus a minimum of 8 years of experience

  • OR Master’s Degree, Computer Science or similar, plus a minimum of 7 years of experience

• Minimum of 7 years of hands-on experience in development (Java, JavaScript, C#, or any other object-oriented programming language), execution, and maintenance of automated test scripts

• Minimum of 7 years of experience in web, mobile, API, and data testing techniques

• Minimum of 7 years of experience with Jenkins, Bamboo, GIT, SVN, Bitbucket, TFS, Code Linters, Code Scanners, Code Coverage tools, Selenium Web Driver, Cucumber, NUNIT/JUNIT/TESTNG, etc.

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in Agile practice

Core Competencies:

• Highly organized, creative, motivated, and passionate about achieving results

• Ability to effectively inspire and influence teams and partners in delivering technology-enabled business solutions that exceed business expectations

• Demonstrated ability to define, drive, and communicate strategy and vision, and influence across the organization is essential

• Solid experience with the Defect Management Process.

• Quick learner and self-starter who requires minimal supervision to excel in a dynamic environment.

• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills & strong verbal and written communication skills.

• Understanding and implementation of CI/CD/Dev Ops practices, lean methodologies

Technical Competencies:

• Experience with driving transformation at scale

• Experience with CI/CD/Dev Ops practices, lean methodologies

• Hands-on Experience with one of the programming languages – Java, C#, JavaScript or any other object-oriented programming language.

• Good understanding on Enterprise Architecture/ Software design, Implementation & testing

• Experience in Banking or Financial Services domain.

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