QA Automation Manager — AI-Driven Quality Engineer Leader

Axos Bank; Irvine (CA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 135,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision, and Life Ins.

Paid Sick Leave, 3 weeks’ Vacation, 11

401(k) Employer Match

HSA or FSA

Employee Mortgage Loan Program

Job summary

Axos Bank seeks a QA Automation Manager who leads QA strategy, operating model, and delivery across manual and automated testing for integration, functional, regression, and performance validation to ensure the highest quality standards for all software releases and adherence to internal SDLC processes.

This leader accelerates AI-enabled Quality Engineering, including AI-assisted test design, automation generation, resilient/self-healing automation patterns, and modern evaluation and monitoring

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• 7+ years in Quality Assurance, including experience managing teams.
• 1+ years in financial services or related regulated industry.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the QA strategy to expand the use of AI, automation and manual testing frameworks, including security/vulnerability testing and code coverage measures and improvements.
• Develop an executable QA roadmap with milestone deliverables, success metrics, and stakeholder alignment.
• Drive AI-assisted test generation, automation conversion, and resilient/self-healing automation to reduce maintenance and flakiness.
• Establish continuous quality evaluation, monitoring, and feedback loops, including quality gates and regression controls.
• Partner with Engineering and DevOps to embed quality into CI/CD pipelines and enforce release standards.
• Define and enforce quality standards, acceptance criteria, and release gating rules across teams.
• Lead end-to-end testing strategies across functional, performance, regression, web, mobile, and API layers.
• Oversee defect management, root-cause analysis, and preventative quality improvements.
• Analyze quality metrics, build actionable dashboards, and proactively address quality and delivery risks.
• Ensure compliance through regular quality audits and alignment with regulatory and risk management practices.
• Present quality insights, risks, and recommendations to senior leadership.
• Optimize testing processes and promote continuous improvement.
• Collaborate with product and business teams to incorporate customer feedback into quality outcomes.
• Lead, develop, and scale QA leadership and teams, building organizational capability in automation and AI-assisted Quality Engineering.

Skills

QA strategy

AI-assisted testing

CI/CD pipelines

Automation testing

Quality metrics

Leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

SeaLights

SonarQube

AI-assisted testing tools

Job description

Axos Bank seeks a QA Automation Manager who leads QA strategy, operating model, and delivery across manual and automated testing for integration, functional, regression, and performance validation to ensure the highest quality standards for all software releases and adherence to internal SDLC processes.

This leader accelerates AI-enabled Quality Engineering, including AI-assisted test design, automation generation, resilient/self-healing automation patterns, and modern evaluation and monitoring