Lead Quality Engineer

Job Summary

Serve as a Lead Quality Engineer with six to eight years of experience driving robust testing strategies for Pega based anti money laundering solutions and product lifecycle management workflows in a hybrid work model ensuring reliable delivery of day shift releases that safeguard financial integrity and operational excellence.

Responsibilities

• Design comprehensive test strategies for complex Pega based anti money laundering workflows to ensure accurate detection coverage and regulatory compliance across multiple financial products and services.
• Develop reusable automated test suites that validate end to end product lifecycle management processes to improve quality consistency and reduce regression effort for large scale enterprise implementations.
• Coordinate with business analysts and product owners to translate anti money laundering and product lifecycle requirements into clear test scenarios that accurately reflect real world transaction and investigation patterns.
• Execute functional integration and system tests for Pega applications focusing on rule configurations case flows and decision logic to prevent defects from reaching production environments.
• Implement robust test data management practices that simulate diverse customer risk profiles transaction behaviors and product configurations to enhance coverage and defect detection rates.
• Review user stories and acceptance criteria during backlog grooming sessions and provide quality risk assessments that influence prioritization and release readiness decisions.
• Create detailed defect reports with precise impact analysis and collaborate closely with developers to reproduce troubleshoot and resolve issues in a timely and transparent manner.
• Optimize test execution in the hybrid work model by using collaboration tools and repositories to keep test assets traceable up to business requirements and release documentation.
• Apply domain understanding of check processing when available to design specialized test conditions that validate clearing timelines exception handling and reconciliation outcomes.
• Monitor quality metrics such as defect density test coverage and escape rates and present data driven insights that guide continuous improvement across the delivery lifecycle.
• Enhance automation frameworks for user interface and application programming interface layers to shorten day shift execution windows and enable reliable continuous integration pipelines.
• Ensure adherence to organization wide quality standards and regulatory expectations for anti money laundering systems including documentation practices and audit ready evidence.
• Mentor junior quality engineers by sharing best practices in test design automation and defect analysis to build a strong quality culture within the delivery team.

Qualifications

• Demonstrate six to eight years of progressive experience in software quality engineering with consistent ownership of test strategy design execution and defect management for complex enterprise applications.
• Show proven hands on experience validating Pega based solutions including rulesets case management flows and integrations with upstream and downstream systems.
• Exhibit strong understanding of anti money laundering concepts such as customer risk scoring transaction monitoring alerts and investigations and apply this knowledge in test scenario design.
• Display practical experience testing product lifecycle management processes including product setup versioning retirement and related workflow or configuration changes.
• Utilize test automation tools and scripting approaches to build maintainable suites for regression smoke and integration testing that operate efficiently within a hybrid work environment.
• Communicate effectively with cross functional stakeholders including developers business partners and compliance teams to clarify requirements discuss risks and agree on quality outcomes.
• Bring exposure to check processing or retail banking operations as a valued domain addition enabling richer test coverage for payment clearing and exception scenarios.
• Adhere to quality assurance methodologies such as risk based testing and requirement traceability while continuously updating skills through relevant training and industry learning.