QA Manager

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

We are seeking an experienced Software Quality Assurance (QA) Manager to lead and evolve our quality strategy across a mission-critical FinTech platform. This role is responsible for ensuring the reliability, security, performance, and regulatory compliance of our software products while enabling rapid, high-quality releases in an agile environment.

The ideal candidate combines hands-on QA expertise with strong leadership skills, a deep understanding of software development lifecycles, and experience working in regulated or high-availability environments such as FinTech, payments, banking, or SaaS.

Key Responsibilities

Quality Strategy & Leadership

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

Testing & Automation

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

Compliance, Security & Risk

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