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The team works closely with customers to help them manage complex business, regulatory, and risk requirements.\nFinancial Risk Analytics (FRA), part of Enterprise Solutions, delivers information-centric capital markets and risk solutions for trading desks and their risk-management partners. Its products support counterparty credit risk, xVA, and market risk for both buy-side and sell-side institutions.\nWe are seeking a Lead Quality Engineer to join the FRA Technology team. Quality Engineering is embedded throughout the software development lifecycle and spans application, analytics, data, integration, and platform layers. The successful candidate will help evolve QA from a primarily validation-focused function into a proactive, automation-first, engineering-led capability.\nThe Impact\nAs a Lead Quality Engineer, you will own and influence the quality strategy across the software delivery lifecycle-from requirements and solution design through development, release, and production support. You will partner with Product, Engineering, DevOps, Architecture, Operations, and Customer Support teams to identify risks early, improve test coverage, increase release confidence, and promote shared accountability for quality.\nThis role requires strong technical expertise, a solid understanding of financial risk platforms, and the ability to lead quality initiatives across agile delivery teams.\nResponsibilities\nOwn and continuously improve the quality strategy across the full software development lifecycle, embedding effective quality gates from requirements and design through release and production support.\nShift quality engineering from defect detection to defect prevention by identifying risks, control gaps, and testability concerns early in the delivery process.\nLead the design, development, and evolution of scalable automated test frameworks covering UI, API, data, integration, regression, and other relevant testing areas.\nDevelop, execute, and maintain comprehensive test suites based on software requirements, technical specifications, business workflows, and real-world customer usage.\nDrive risk-based testing for financial risk platforms, prioritising coverage for regulatory workflows, calculation accuracy, data integrity, security controls, system integration, and customer-critical journeys.\nDesign and implement test automation using Java, Python, Selenium, Cucumber, Carina, and other appropriate technologies and frameworks.\nEstablish and monitor quality engineering standards and metrics, including automation coverage, defect leakage, release readiness, test reliability, environment stability, and production incident feedback.\nChampion continuous testing within CI/CD pipelines by integrating reliable and efficient automated validation into build, deployment, and release processes.\nImprove release confidence and operational resilience by validating deployment readiness, rollback capability, observability, environment consistency, and applicable non-functional requirements.\nLead quality governance for agile teams, ensuring that acceptance criteria, test evidence, sign-offs, and release risks are clearly documented, auditable, and decision-ready.\nManage and support QA and UAT environments, build deployments, test data, test execution, release planning, and testing sign-off activities.\nPartner with Product, Engineering, DevOps, Architecture, Operations, and Customer Support to resolve quality issues and strengthen end-to-end software reliability.\nCollaborate with business stakeholders and, where appropriate, clients to understand business impact and translate workflow complexity and customer needs into effective test coverage.\nUse AI and modern engineering practices to improve QA productivity through intelligent test generation, defect analysis, regression optimisation, log analysis, and test data creation.\nMentor QA engineers and influence developers to build quality into their work by promoting automation, code quality, testability, maintainability, and shared ownership.\nPerform gap analysis across application and platform test coverage and define remediation plans to address identified risks.\nBalance manual and automated testing based on delivery needs, while continuously moving toward automation-first and analytics-driven quality engineering.\nAct as a technical leader and subject-matter expert, proactively resolving issues, managing risks, and escalating concerns appropriately.\nWhat We’re Looking For\nBachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related discipline; equivalent professional experience may also be considered.\n10 plus years of work experience across software quality engineering and end-to-end testing activities, including experience in a technical leadership or lead QA capacity.\nStrong hands-on experience with automation and white-box testing using Java, Python, or both.\nExperience designing and maintaining test automation frameworks using Selenium WebDriver, Cucumber, Carina, or equivalent web-testing frameworks.\nDemonstrated experience with API and web services testing, including the development or use of API automation frameworks.\nStrong understanding of object-oriented programming, software testing principles, test design techniques, and quality engineering practices.\nExperience with SQL and relational databases; knowledge of PL/SQL, NoSQL databases, and Linux/UNIX environments is desirable.\nExperience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines and working with build and deployment processes.\nUnderstanding of performance, integration, regression, data, security, and non-functional testing practices.\nStrong analytical and creative problem-solving skills, with the ability to investigate complex issues across application, data, and platform layers.\nExcellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present quality risks and recommendations to technical and business stakeholders.\nDemonstrated ability to work effectively across cross-functional and geographically distributed agile teams.\nAbility to operate independently, take ownership, influence engineering decisions, and drive quality improvements across the organisation.\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience working with capital markets, financial risk analytics, counterparty credit risk, xVA, market risk, or related financial services platforms.\nExperience testing calculation-intensive, data-intensive, or regulatory applications.\nKnowledge of cloud-deployed applications, containers, microservices, messaging platforms, and distributed systems.\nExperience applying AI-enabled tools and modern engineering practices to improve testing efficiency and quality outcomes.\nExperience establishing quality metrics, governance processes, and continuous improvement programmes for engineering teams.\nAbout S&P Global Market Intelligence\nAt S&P Global Market Intelligence, a division of S&P Global we understand the importance of accurate, deep and insightful information. Our team of experts delivers unrivaled insights and leading data and technology solutions, partnering with customers to expand their perspective, operate with confidence, and make decisions with conviction.\nFor more information, visit www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence.\nWhat’s In It For You?\nOur Mission: \nAdvancing Essential Intelligence.\nOur People:\nWe're more than 35,000 strong worldwide-so we're able to understand nuances while having a broad perspective. Our team is driven by curiosity and a shared belief that Essential Intelligence can help build a more prosperous future for us all.From finding new ways to measure sustainability to analyzing energy transition across the supply chain to building workflow solutions that make it easy to tap into insight and apply it. We are changing the way people see things and empowering them to make an impact on the world we live in. We’re committed to a more equitable future and to helping our customers find new, sustainable ways of doing business. Join us and help create the critical insights that truly make a difference.\nOur Values:\nIntegrity, Discovery, Partnership\nThroughout our history, the world's leading organizations have relied on us for the Essential Intelligence they need to make confident decisions about the road ahead. We start with a foundation of integrity in all we do, bring a spirit of discovery to our work, and collaborate in close partnership with each other and our customers to achieve shared goals.\nBenefits:\nWe take care of you, so you can take care of business. We care about our people. That’s why we provide everything you-and your career-need to thrive at S&P Global.\nOur benefits include:\nHealth & Wellness: Health care coverage designed for the mind and body.\n\nFlexible Downtime: Generous time off helps keep you energized for your time on.\n\nContinuous Learning: Access a wealth of resources to grow your career and learn valuable new skills.\n\nInvest in Your Future: Secure your financial future through competitive pay, retirement planning, a continuing education program with a company-matched student loan contribution, and financial wellness programs.\n\nFamily Friendly Perks: It’s not just about you. S&P Global has perks for your partners and little ones, too, with some best-in class benefits for families.\n\nBeyond the Basics: From retail discounts to referral incentive awards-small perks can make a big difference.\n\nFor more information on benefits by country visit: https://spgbenefits.com/benefit-summaries\nGlobal Hiring and Opportunity at S&P Global:\nAt S&P Global, we are committed to fostering a connected and engaged workplace where all individuals have access to opportunities based on their skills, experience, and contributions. Our hiring practices emphasize fairness, transparency, and merit, ensuring that we attract and retain top talent. By valuing different perspectives and promoting a culture of respect and collaboration, we drive innovation and power global markets.\nRecruitment Fraud Alert:\nIf you receive an email from a spglobalind.com domain or any other regionally based domains, it is a scam and should be reported to . 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