QA Technical Lead

Overview

Permanent, full-time, hybrid 

Connecting clients to markets – and talent to opportunity.

With 5,400+ employees and over 80,000 institutional, commercial, and payments clients, we operate from more than 80 offices spread across six continents. As a Fortune 100, Nasdaq-listed provider, we connect clients to the global markets – focusing on innovation, human connection, and providing world-class products and services to all types of investors.  Whether you want to forge a career connecting our retail clients to potential trading opportunities, or ingrain yourself in the world of institutional investing, StoneX Group is made up of four business segments that offer endless potential for progression and growth.

Business Segment Overview: Engage in a deep variety of business-critical activities that keep our company running efficiently. From strategic marketing and financial management to human resources and operational oversight, you’ll have the opportunity to optimize processes and implement game-changing policies.

Responsibilities

Position Purpose:  We are looking for a Test Lead to own and drive the quality engineering strategy for the NeXus program. This is a hands-on technical leadership role: you will assess current testing maturity, define and implement a scalable target-state test architecture, and align testing with modern software development practices to enable faster, safer, and more independent service delivery.

 You will lead standardization, governance, and shift-left practices across teams — shortening feedback loops, improving developer productivity, and unifying tools and languages where it delivers clear program-level value. You will also set technical direction for QA engineers across domains, raising the engineering bar through coaching, review, and shared standards. Primary duties will include: 

  Strategy & architecture

• Assess current test maturity across technology, tooling, automation, standards, governance, and delivery practices.
• Analyze existing QA and testing processes and identify bottlenecks, risks, and inefficiencies.
• Define and implement a target-state test architecture aligned with engineering and business goals.
• Define service-level test strategy covering UI, API, integration, contract, regression, visual, and non-functional testing.

Engineering practice & delivery

• Align testing practices with software development standards, SDLC workflows, and CI/CD delivery models.
• Lead tool and language unification where it improves consistency, maintainability, speed, and cost efficiency.
• Drive shift-left adoption by embedding quality earlier in refinement, design, and development.
• Improve local and CI feedback loops to support rapid daily development of independently deployable services.
• Establish testing standards and guardrails for framework design, selectors, page objects, components, mocking, test data, and reporting.
• Improve determinism and reliability of automated tests, including strategies for real-time and event-driven systems.

Leadership & governance

• Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and code/design review for QA engineers across teams — setting the standard for automation quality.
• Own the test framework roadmap and contribution model, ensuring changes are reviewed, versioned, and rolled out safely.
• Introduce or improve quality metrics, dashboards, and traceability across coverage, regression health, defect leakage, and release readiness.
• Partner with Engineering, QA, DevOps, Product, and Architecture stakeholders to execute the quality transformation roadmap.
• Represent quality in release readiness decisions and escalate risk with clear, evidence-based reasoning.

Qualifications

To land this role you will need: 

• Proven experience as a Test Lead, QA Lead, Principal/Lead QA Engineer, or senior quality engineering leader in a complex product or platform environment.
• Strong hands-on experience designing test automation architecture and strategy across UI, API, integration, contract, and regression testing.
• Experience building and governing scalable test frameworks, standards, reusable patterns, and best practices across multiple teams.
• Experience leading, mentoring, and technically directing QA engineers — without necessarily holding line-management responsibility.
• Deep understanding of CI/CD integration, release readiness, quality gates, and feedback-loop optimization, with a strong shift-left mindset.
• Experience improving automation reliability through deterministic test design, mocking, flaky test reduction, and stable regression execution.
• Strong understanding of test reporting, quality metrics, traceability, and service-level test strategies for independently deployable systems.
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and cross-functional leadership skills.

What makes you stand out:

• Experience with modern test tooling such as Playwright, Selenium, Vitest/Jest, REST API tools, Pact/Zod/OpenAPI, and visual regression testing.
• Experience testing real-time, event-driven, or authentication-heavy systems, including WebSocket/streaming and SSO/Okta/token-based flows.
• Experience integrating automation with enterprise delivery and reporting tools such as TestRail, Allure, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, TeamCity, or Octopus.
• Experience across multiple technology stacks, especially TypeScript/Node.js and/or C#/.NET, plus exposure to performance testing tools such as k6, NBomber, or JMeter.
• Experience defining standards for AI-assisted development and testing tooling in an enterprise context.
• Experience in financial services, trading, brokerage, or other regulated environments.
• Relevant certifications such as ISTQB or equivalent practical expertise.

What Success Looks Like

• Faster and more reliable developer feedback loops.
• Reduced bottlenecks in test execution and release readiness.
• Improved consistency and maintainability through standardization and governance.
• Better regression stability, clearer quality reporting, and higher release confidence.
• Higher confidence in daily deployments of independently developed services.
• A stronger, more consistent QA engineering community with shared standards and clear ownership.

Education / Certification Requirements: 

• Bachelor’s degree in information technology.

Working environment: 

• Hybrid 4-days in office with private parking for employees. 

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