Senior Quality Assurance Lead

Nordea is a leading Nordic universal bank. We are helping our customers realise their dreams and aspirations – and we have done that for 200 years. We want to make a real difference for our customers and the communities where we operate – by being a strong and personal financial partner.

Job ID: 10291
Nordea IT, Cross Technology Capabilities, QA Team SE are searching for a Senior Quality Assurance Lead with a proven track record of test management in large projects.
About this opportunity
Welcome to the QA and Testing team. We work efficiently, consistently whilst driving innovation and automation within the QA Area. As the Senior Quality Assurance Lead, you’ll play a valuable role in ensuring quality in key deliverables at Nordea.
The role will involve an assignment for test management activities on strategic and operational level. You will collaborate with employees and consultants located across the globe. In the line you will work within a team of QA professionals. You will continuously support the Nordea QA strategy and framework both on process and tool levels with input from your assignment.
You will contribute with:
* Strong test management and communication skills in various IT initiatives
* Supporting peers and stakeholders both strategically and operative level
* Ensuring an efficient test way of working and quality assurance maturity uplift with innovative activities
* Efficient test reporting on daily basis, as well as providing test evidence for the deliveries to production
* Securing compliance to Nordea standards and utilise the Nordea frameworks for efficient implementation
* Regularly supporting the developomnet of QA common strategies, frameworks and services
* Hands on development of QA supportive solutions

The environment in which you will operate in, will be one with rapid initial progress having a fair amount of uncertainty. Hence, it is vital that you are able to keep everybody working towards the common goal, solving multiple issues at the same time without losing neither speed nor quality.
Must have a knowledge of automation framework, regression testing suits and most importantly experinece of leading data driven projects. The positions are based in Stockholm.
Who you are
You have strong communication skills and broad experience within communicating status/results from both waterfall and agile test projects. We believe that it is necessary for you to be familiar with working in a complex environment with multiple streams cross multiple internal organisations, utilizing internal/external resources from different cultures and companies.
When communicating, verbally and in writing, we are expecting that you can do so using English in an unhindered manner. Finally, you should be familiar with penetrating and understanding new, complex organisations by documenting and understanding current approaches, processes, organisation, tools etc., in order to together with QA management achieve a “step by step” improvement process in the QA area.
Your experience and background:
You are a IT professional with experience in test management. You will rapidly understand our processes and take a more hands-on approach if needed.

Further we value the following criteria:
* Have practical and strong leadership skills in how to lead change
* Documented project and test management experience 
* Good level of understanding of full SDLC, preferably with experience in both waterfall, agile and SAFE and ITIL-processes
* You are able to set up test planning and test strategy definitions according to Nordea Standards & Frameworks
* Ensure that professional test management and reporting is being performed on all test levels
* Understand QA Role in SDLC, driving “shift left” activities towards our development units
* ISTQB Software Testing certification
* Bank & Finance experience
* Hands-on experience in strategic and operative test planning, test execution & test reporting
* V-models & agile test approaches
* Experience in CI/CD tools such as: Jira and qTest is an advantage

If this sounds like you, get in touch!
Next steps

Submit your application no later than 30/04/2023. For more information, you’re welcome to contact Asad Javed, asad.javed@nordea.com.

At Nordea, we know that an inclusive workplace is a sustainable workplace. We deeply believe that our diverse backgrounds, experiences, characteristics and traits make us better at serving customers and communities. So please come as you are.
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