Head of Quality Assurance (QA) in London

Here at Fnality, we are powering the future of finance, together: combining best in class technology with free-flowing creativity, and expertise that can make business better for everyone. There are no precedents for what we’re doing. With you on our side, we’ll be setting new ones every day. In a complex world, we are here to bring clarity and make positive change.

Fnality Services is central to each Fnality Payment Systems' (FnPS) effective and resilient operation and provides an efficient common service platform for the secure global delivery of settlement operations.

Working at Fnality:

• Be your best: We have a supportive culture that helps to bring the best out of each and every single one of our employees.
• Feel part of something bigger: We will support you by fostering an open, honest culture, that enables flexibility and wellbeing.
• Feel empowered: We want you to feel empowered. The nature of our business can help make this a reality.

Fnality is looking for a Head of Quality Assurance (QA) (who must be from a payments background) who can demonstrate competencies which will enable them to successfully:

• Work in a fast-paced, regulated environment in the financial sector.
• Plan and execute the entire testing process, including test optimization and improvement.
• Communicate and work closely with colleagues in a remote setting, suggesting improvements and highlighting when communication is not at its optimum.
• Encourage a risk culture that is embedded in every policy and process of the company (Technology, Security, Personnel, Environment etc).
• Promote an open and honest company culture, encouraging servant leadership as best practice within the organisation.

Role Responsibilities:

• Full responsibility for designing, leading, documenting, scheduling, and coordinating test scenarios, engaging with internal and external stakeholders to deliver robust and appropriate tests.
• Bringing together various colleagues and teams to deliver against testing outcomes.
• Writing the scripts required to run tests.
• Leading on full end-to-end lifecycle of testing including business testing, product testing and operational testing.
• Defining, developing, and performing acceptance tests as part of route to live (functional & non-functional tests) on software received from technology vendors.
• Testing regular updates and releases across several environments including SIT, Pre-Production, and Production.
• Running Fedwire Participant testing including Federal Reserve System upgrades at regular intervals in line with stated requirements.
• Conducting SWIFT testing within MX environments.
• Carrying out business process tests such as disaster recovery and business continuity, including backup and recovery validation.
• Highly experienced at running enterprise testing suites and what that entails in terms of enterprise level operations.
• Has experience of automated testing frameworks using scripting languages (e.g. Python or Java).
• Understands key and deep technical areas (blockchain products, blockchain wallets, regulated and systemically important payment systems etc).
• Has strong stakeholder and relationship management experience, especially when it comes to external parties and regulators.
• Has experience working closely with customers (Tier 1 Banks, Central Banks such as the Federal Reserve and US Regulators) on operational support issues and ensuring 24x7 availability of platforms.
• Has an excellent understanding of payments and settlement in the traditional financial infrastructure.
• Has experience in application performance monitoring and event management.
• Is competent in data, statistical and trend analysis.
• Has a good understanding of how a payment system operates under stress and the market conditions that drive behaviours.

Why should you join Fnality?

• We employ curious individuals who thrive working in a fast paced and constantly changing environment.
• You will be an analytical thinker who is able to look at tasks and understand the most efficient way to achieve the desired outcome.
• You will be vigilantly outcomes-focused and fully agile in your approach to working.
• You will have an insatiable desire to learn, adept at picking up new challenges and giving anything a go.
• You will want to deliver as much as possible and you will understand how important the power of the team is.

This role is a UK based role and you must be eligible to work in the UK. Please note we cannot sponsor visas for this role.

How will we use the information about you? We will use your personal information to process your application, to enable us to assess your suitability for a role and for other legitimate business purposes such as improving our sites and talent management practices.