Quality Assurance Capability Team leader

Nordea is a leading bank.

Job ID: 23832 
We are now looking for a Quality Assurance Capability team leader for Mortgages Technology in the Service Area Mass-Market Products to join our team in Mortgages Technology. As our Capability Team Lead, you’ll play a critical role contributing to our technical solutions as well as to our culture and people leadership. We seek you that wants to combine your technology, delivery and leadership skills to enable a great experience for our customers and advisors.
In Personal Banking our strategy is mobile first with a omni channel experience ready to serve our customer were they need support through the mortgage journey. We want to use the latest technology to enable our ambitious strategy.
Mortgage Domain is a part of the Group strategy of Nordic scale which means you will be part of a unique opportunity to make a footprint and impact of tomorrows financial solutions in the mortgage space. We’re creating an agile environment where we’re harnessing the power of technology  So bring your skills, ideas and experience. With us, you’ll find plenty of opportunities to grow and make your mark on something bigger. 
At Nordea, we know our customers’ needs are changing – and we’re deeply committed to meeting them with the financial solutions of tomorrow. We’re creating an agile environment where we’re harnessing the power of technology – one where you can make an impact. So bring your skills, ideas and unique background. With us, you’ll find plenty of opportunities to grow and make your mark on something bigger. 

About this opportunity

As Technology Capability Team Leader for QA & Testing, you’ll play a critical role in building and enabling a high performing team of QA & Testing professionals to support the Mortgage domain to achieve our goals in an efficient and quality assured manner.

What you’ll be doing:
* Setting the direction and vision for QA & Testing practice for all products/services, ensuring QA & Testing excellence that is aligned with our standards.
* Leading a team of QA & Testing professionals who are part of our agile delivery teams.
* Work closely together with our Delivery Lead and taking an active support role in delivering needed customer solutions provided by the end-to-end teams.
* Engaging, coaching and empowering people to achieve agreed deliverables and goals
* Collaborating and enable quality assurance of business requirements to secure clear functional design 
* Actively demonstrating focus on business needs and finding technical solutions to solve those needs.
* Contributing to a culture in which the teams take full responsibility for delivering working software, all the way from definition to quality assurance and into production.

You’ll join the Service Domain leadership team for Mortgages Technology and spend approximately half your time as a capability and people leader, and the other half taking an active part in our deliveries. The role is based in Gdynia; Gdańsk; Helsinki; Stockholm; Warszawa; Łódź.

Collaboration. Ownership. Passion. Courage. These are the values that guide us in being at our best – and that we imagine you share with us.  

To succeed in this role, we believe that you:
* Are driven to build and enable high performing teams with an inclusive environment  
* Take ownership and lead by example to ensure high quality software and solutions that we all can be proud of
* The ability to be proactive and create plans for continuous improvement raising the quality bar every PI 
* The ability to build relationships across Business, Technology and Architecture
* The ability to set ambitious and clear goals and in parallel keep the team aligned and motivated 
* A continuous learning mindset in order to grow your engineering and business knowledge, also in those around you 
* Have good people and collaborative skills. Engage, coach and steer but also integrity to speak up and stand for what you think is right  

Your experience and background: 
* 7+ years of experience in a quality assurance and testing leadership role overseeing all aspects of software quality assurance and testing lifecycle in a complex set-up 
* Alternatively, a strong individual contributor in a senior quality assurance and testing specialist role (e.g. test manager, test lead)
* The ability to create, communicate, anchor and implement test vision and plans 
* Experience and expertise in QA & Testing  (hands-on work experience being a test lead/test manager, knowledge of the processes and the tools of the trade in QA & Testing space)
* Self-driven with ability to work independently and under own initiative 
* Professional experience in delivering and understanding the lifecycle of business software and what it takes to make long lasting solutions
* Strong communication skills, curious and positive mindset and a proactive approach 
* Degree in computer science, engineering, financials or relevant experience

Next steps
For union information, please contact finansforbundet@nordea.se or SACONordea@nordea.com.