QA Automation Manager – Technical Lead

About Citi:

Citi, the leading global bank, has approximately 200 million customer accounts and does business in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions. Citi provides consumers, corporations, governments, and institutions with a broad range of financial products and services, including consumer banking and credit, corporate and investment banking, securities brokerage, transaction services, and wealth management.

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The Role:

The QA Automation Manager - Technical Lead in Citi's Financial Markets Division will ensure the accuracy, consistency, and reliability of data across trading, risk management, regulatory reporting, and financial analytics systems worldwide. This position works with cross-functional teams globally (APAC, EMEA, NAM) to establish enterprise-wide data quality frameworks that enhance trading operations, support risk mitigation, while ensuring compliance with regional and global financial regulations.

This opportunity offers the chance to:

• Engage with cutting-edge trading technology and AI-driven data quality automation
• Drive efforts that will directly impact the bank’s ability to manage financial risk and optimize trading strategies
• Lead software quality initiatives that drive regulatory compliance, risk mitigation, and market efficiency
• Help shape the future of data governance in an era of high-frequency trading and real-time analytics
• Join an enterprise organization that actively invests in digital transformation and technological advancement

Responsibilities

• Set up Test plans, Test Strategy and Estimations for Quality Engineering projects
• Lead the team of SDETS to act as the quality gate before software products are delivered to our end users
• Develop and enforce global data quality frameworks for front-office, middle-office, and back-office systems supporting multi-asset class trading
• Evaluate the quality of automation code generated and give constant feedback to SDETs
• Identify and highlight ways to continuously optimize the way in which QA function operates to create an efficient, scalable team
• Collaborate closely with global BA, DEV & QA Teams for efficient test planning, test design and co-ordinate test efforts between Global Teams
• Ensure data integrity across global trading platforms, pricing models, risk engines, and regulatory compliance systems
• Implement automated data validation for real-time market data, trade transactions, and post-trade analytics
• Collaborate with trading desks, quants, risk, and compliance teams across different time zones to resolve data anomalies
• Work closely with data engineering and DevOps teams to embed data quality checks in CI/CD pipelines for front-office trading applications
• Define and monitor key data quality metrics (accuracy, completeness, consistency, timeliness) across global financial systems
• Meet the stringent requirements of regulatory bodies across different markets
• Establish data lineage, metadata management, and governance frameworks for high-quality regulatory reporting
• Ensure compliance with global and regional regulatory frameworks
• Lead initiatives on AI/ML-based data anomaly detection, improving real-time insights for market risk and pricing data
• Provide thought leadership in data observability, automated testing, and cloud-based data quality solutions

Qualifications

• 8+ years' experience in QA automation within a global banking or capital markets environment with strong hands-on proficiency in Java, Python, SQL
• Must have experience working in Agile environments with frequent deployments in no longer than 2 week sprints
• Strong understanding of global markets trading infrastructure, including order management systems (OMS), execution management systems (EMS), market data feeds, and post-trade settlement systems
• Knowledge of financial risk modeling, P&L attribution, VaR calculations, and liquidity risk metrics
• Experience in AI/ML-driven anomaly detection for trading and risk
• Experience embedding quality checks into DevOps CI/CD pipelines
• Cloud experience working in AWS, Azure, or GCP data services
• Knowledge of multi-asset classes: equities, fixed income, FX, commodities, derivatives, structured products
• Ability to manage global stakeholders, including traders, quants, risk managers, and compliance teams across multiple regions
• Strong problem-solving and decision-making skills in a fast-paced trading environment
• Strong domain expertise in capital markets, trading systems, risk analytics, and global regulatory compliance is a plus

Education

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software/Computer Engineering related field, or equivalent experience

This job description provides a high-level review of the types of work performed. Other job-related duties may be assigned as required.

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Job Family Group:

Technology

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Job Family:

Technology Quality

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Time Type:

Full time

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