Senior QA Lead - Risk, Automation & Data Validation

Bank of America; Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Bank of America is seeking a senior QA leader to drive end-to-end quality across large-scale testing initiatives. You will lead manual and automated testing, data validation, and governance to ensure robust release readiness.

The role requires strong stakeholder management and a strategic vision for QA across Agile/DevOps environments. Responsibilities include defining QA strategy, developing automation frameworks, guiding cross-functional teams, and championing a quality-first culture to

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.
• Defines the overall QA strategy aligned with business and technology teams.
• Leads and manages QA teams consisting of manual, automation, and data testers.
• Establishes quality standards, testing methodologies, and best practices across projects.
• Drives a quality-first culture and continuous improvement initiatives for production stability.
• Develops QA roadmaps and testing transformation plans.
• Ensures compliance with QA governance and regulatory requirements.
• Owns end-to-end QA delivery across multiple projects and releases.
• Defines test scope, approach, resources, and timelines; reviews project requirements.
• Manages SIT, Regression, Integration, Performance, and feature validation.
• Defines automation strategy and framework roadmap; adopts Python-based automation.

Skills

QA Leadership & Governance

Python Automation

DB2 / Oracle / SQL Server

Test Automation

Agile & DevOps

Executive Communication

People Management

Risk & Release Management

Test Engineering

Stakeholder Management

Tools

CI/CD Tools

Job description

Bank of America is seeking a senior QA leader to drive end-to-end quality across large-scale testing initiatives. You will lead manual and automated testing, data validation, and governance to ensure robust release readiness.

The role requires strong stakeholder management and a strategic vision for QA across Agile/DevOps environments. Responsibilities include defining QA strategy, developing automation frameworks, guiding cross-functional teams, and championing a quality-first culture to