Senior QA Lead - Automation & Risk Platform

Hobbsnews; Charlotte, Northern (NC, KY); Hybrid; USD 98,000 - 142,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Industry-leading benefits

Discretionary incentive plan

Paid time off

Job summary

Bank of America is seeking a senior QA leader to own end-to-end testing strategies, oversee automation and data validation, and drive a risk-aware QA program across enterprise-scale initiatives. The role emphasizes governance, release management, and collaboration with Agile/DevOps teams in a fast-paced financial services environment.

The Lead will direct QA teams, shape testing standards, and advance modern automation practices (UI/API/Backend), ensuring production stability and regulatory

Qualifications

• 10+ years of QA leadership experience managing enterprise-scale testing initiatives.
• Proven experience leading large QA organizations across manual, automation, and data testing disciplines.
• Strong background in test automation, data validation, and enterprise application testing.
• Experience implementing QA governance, risk-based testing, and release management practices.
• Strong understanding of Agile, DevOps, CI/CD, and continuous testing methodologies.
• Excellent leadership, stakeholder management, communication, and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Creates and optimizes test processes including defect management and reporting.
• Creates and optimizes test automation frameworks and use of test automation tools.
• Leads test planning for complex features that span across the platform or multiple teams.
• Creates a test automation strategy across the application stack (UI, API, and Backend, etc.).
• Ensures alignment and sign off for test cases from business and other stakeholders.
• Manages test execution and resolves, communicates or escalates any issues that may result in test plan variance.
• Designs test data and ensure data compliance requirements are met on all levels of test environments.
• Define and execute the overall QA strategy aligned with business and technology team for all market risk applications.
• Lead and manage QA teams consisting of manual, automation, and data testers.
• Establish quality standards, testing methodologies, and best practices across projects.
• Drive a quality-first culture and provide continuous improvement initiatives to ensure production stability.
• Develop QA roadmaps, automation strategies, and testing transformation plans.
• Ensure adherence to organizational QA governance and compliance requirements.
• Own end-to-end QA delivery across multiple projects and releases.
• Define test scope, test approach, resource allocation, and timelines and Review project requirements to ensure adequate test coverage.
• Manage SIT Regression, Integration, Performance, and Feature validation activities.
• Define automation strategy and framework roadmap, adoption of Python-based automation solutions, Improve regression and integration automation coverage.

Skills

QA Leadership & Governance

Python Automation

DB2

Oracle

SQL Server

Advanced SQL

ETL & Data Warehouse Testing

Data Migration Validation

Reporting & Regulatory Testing

Test Automation Frameworks

Agile & DevOps

AI Tools

Tools

DB2

Oracle

SQL Server

Job description

Bank of America is seeking a senior QA leader to own end-to-end testing strategies, oversee automation and data validation, and drive a risk-aware QA program across enterprise-scale initiatives. The role emphasizes governance, release management, and collaboration with Agile/DevOps teams in a fast-paced financial services environment.

The Lead will direct QA teams, shape testing standards, and advance modern automation practices (UI/API/Backend), ensuring production stability and regulatory