FinTech QA Leader: Strategy, Automation & Compliance

Sharp Decisions; New Jersey; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Sharp Decisions is seeking an experienced Software Quality Assurance (QA) Manager to lead quality strategy for a FinTech platform. Focus areas include reliability, security, performance, and regulatory compliance to enable rapid, high-quality releases in an agile environment.

The ideal candidate combines hands-on QA expertise with strong leadership, deep SDLC knowledge, and experience in regulated, high-availability environments such as FinTech, payments, and SaaS.

Responsibilities

• Define, implement, and continuously improve the company’s QA strategy, standards, and best practices
• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of QA engineers (manual and automation)
• Establish quality metrics, KPIs, and reporting to provide visibility into product health and release readiness
• Advocate for quality across the organization and embed QA early in the SDLC
• Oversee test planning, test case development, and execution for web, mobile, and API-based applications
• Drive automation strategy across functional, regression, integration, and performance testing
• Ensure effective test coverage for complex financial workflows, calculations, and edge cases
• Evaluate and select QA tools, frameworks, and platforms
• Partner closely with Product Management, Engineering, DevOps, and Security teams
• Participate in sprint planning, backlog grooming, and release planning
• Ensure QA processes align with Agile and CI/CD pipelines
• Manage release sign-off and risk assessment
• Ensure testing practices support regulatory and compliance requirements (e.g., SOC 2, PCI DSS, SOX, GDPR, etc., as applicable)
• Collaborate with security teams on vulnerability testing, penetration testing support, and data protection validation
• Help identify, assess, and mitigate quality and operational risks

Job description

Sharp Decisions is seeking an experienced Software Quality Assurance (QA) Manager to lead quality strategy for a FinTech platform. Focus areas include reliability, security, performance, and regulatory compliance to enable rapid, high-quality releases in an agile environment.

The ideal candidate combines hands-on QA expertise with strong leadership, deep SDLC knowledge, and experience in regulated, high-availability environments such as FinTech, payments, and SaaS.