Quality Engineering Team Leader

Finonex, is a well-established and stable trading-platform company.

We are looking for a QA Team Leader to lead quality across the entire R&D organization.

We are looking for a customer-focused quality leader who owns end-to-end quality, drives release excellence, and influences how quality is built into our products.

You will work cross-functionally with R&D, Product, and DevOps, ensuring that quality reflects real user experience and business impact.

What You’ll Do

Own Quality End-to-End

• Lead all QA activities across teams (integration, E2E, regression, release validation)
• Ensure quality reflects user journeys and production behavior
• Define and enforce quality standards, practices, and acceptance criteria

Drive Quality and Release Excellence

• Own and Lead QA oversight across the company's release process
• Provides input & clarity about release readiness, validation flows, and sign-off
• Manage and mentor the QA Team
• Build a strong, collaborative, and quality-driven culture
• Partner with Product, Engineering, DevOps, and leadership
• Communicate quality risks, trade-offs, and priorities clearly
• Represent the voice of the customer in quality decisions

Shape the Future of QA (AI-Oriented)

• Drive adoption of AI-agentic approaches in QA
• Introduce AI-assisted test generation, analysis, and reporting
• Improve efficiency and insight through smart automation and data

What We’re Looking For

Experience

• 3+ years of managerial experience
• Proven experience as QA Lead / QA Team Lead / Head of QA / Quality Engineering Lead
• Experience working across multiple teams and complex systems
• Strong understanding of release processes and delivery cycles
• Experience building or improving QA processes at scale

Technical Understanding (Hands-on not required)

• Solid understanding of automation frameworks and testing strategies
• Experience with CI/CD, test environments, and quality gates
• Understanding of API, integration, and E2E testing
• Familiarity with modern architectures (microservices, cloud, containers)
• Proven track record of adopting, embedding and leveraging AI in the Quality domain

Mindset

• Customer & business focused
• Strong ownership and accountability
• Pragmatic and execution-driven
• Challenges teams and drives change

Nice to Have

• Experience with Python / TypeScript-based test frameworks
• Familiarity with tools like Playwright or similar
• Experience with Kubernetes / Docker / CI pipelines
• Exposure to AI-driven testing or agent-based automation
• Background in fintech / complex systems / high-scale environments