Head of Software QA | Fintech / SaaS
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Summary
A hands-on Head of Software QA leading a team of ~7 QA engineers at a fintech SaaS company in Sydney, owning QA strategy, driving the shift from manual to automated testing (Playwright/Cypress/Selenium), and doing API testing, troubleshooting, and client-facing release-readiness work.
Head of Software QA | Fintech / SaaS
implementations.
This is a role for someone who can combine technical expertise, people leadership and strong stakeholder engagement.
You'll be equally comfortable setting QA strategy, writing automation, troubleshooting complex issues and working directly with engineering teams and clients.
What you'll be doing
- Excellent career progression opportunities
- Great opportunity to lead a growing FinTech's QA and technology roadmap.
- Exposure to working with top tier financial services clients
- Hyrbid working
- Working with new innovative technologies
This isn't a purely strategic leadership role. We're looking for someone who can roll up their sleeves, challenge existing processes and personally drive meaningful improvements.
Interested? Apply now or reach out for a confidential discussion.
Or email: shauna.oreilly@talentweb.com.au
- Sydney based only
- Permanent role
- $195,000 + super
- Hybrid working | 3 days in office per week
implementations.
This is a role for someone who can combine technical expertise, people leadership and strong stakeholder engagement.
You'll be equally comfortable setting QA strategy, writing automation, troubleshooting complex issues and working directly with engineering teams and clients.
What you'll be doing
- Lead and mentor a distributed team of approximately 7 QA engineers.
- Own end-to-end QA strategy, test planning, automation and release quality.
- Personally contribute to automation development, API testing, defect investigation and technical troubleshooting.
- Drive the transition from manual testing towards scalable automated testing practices.
- Partner closely with Engineering, Product and senior leadership to influence improvements and resolve delivery challenges.
- Engage directly with clients on implementation testing, technical issues and release readiness.
- Proven QA leadership experience within SaaS, fintech, financial services or complex software environments.
- Strong hands-on automation experience using tools such as Playwright, Cypress, Selenium or similar.
- Solid technical understanding of APIs, integrations, CI/CD pipelines and software development practices.
- Demonstrated experience implementing QA improvements and driving automation adoption.
- Excellent stakeholder management, communication and influencing skills.
- A proactive, delivery-focused leader comfortable remaining hands-on while managing a team.
- Excellent career progression opportunities
- Great opportunity to lead a growing FinTech's QA and technology roadmap.
- Exposure to working with top tier financial services clients
- Hyrbid working
- Working with new innovative technologies
This isn't a purely strategic leadership role. We're looking for someone who can roll up their sleeves, challenge existing processes and personally drive meaningful improvements.
Interested? Apply now or reach out for a confidential discussion.
Or email: shauna.oreilly@talentweb.com.au