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This role requires strong financial-services domain knowledge, a solid understanding of the SDLC, and hands-on experience with functional testing, test-case management, defect management, and release validation.\nThe ideal candidate is detail-oriented, understands complex financial business workflows, and can ensure requirements and acceptance criteria are fully validated before release. The candidate should also have experience validating nightly financial batch cycles and scheduled jobs, and be comfortable working directly with business users to understand requirements, investigate issues, support UAT, and validate business outcomes.\nKey Responsibilities\nOwn end-to-end QA activities, including functional, regression, integration, and end-to-end testing.\nReview business requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria to ensure they are clear, complete, testable, and aligned with expected business outcomes.\nCreate, maintain, and execute detailed test scenarios and test cases covering positive, negative, boundary, exception, and business-critical scenarios.\nMaintain traceability between requirements, acceptance criteria, test cases, test results, defects, and supporting test evidence.\nIdentify, document, and manage defects through closure, including clear reproduction steps, expected and actual results, severity, priority, screenshots, logs, and business impact.\nValidate financial-services workflows, business rules, data, interfaces, reports, upstream/downstream integrations, nightly batch cycles, scheduled jobs, dependencies, and processing results.\nWork directly with business users, business analysts, product owners, and subject-matter experts to understand business processes, clarify requirements, support UAT, investigate issues, and confirm that delivered functionality meets business expectations.\nSupport release cycles, regression testing, UAT, production readiness, and post-release validation while providing clear reporting on test coverage, defects, risks, and overall release readiness.\nApply modern QA practices and AI-assisted technologies where appropriate to improve requirements analysis, test-case development, defect analysis, test coverage, documentation quality, and overall QA efficiency.\nWhat We Value\nStrong understanding of SDLC methodologies, including Agile and Waterfall.\nStrong financial-services domain knowledge and the ability to understand complex business workflows, transactions, data flows, batch processing, and system integrations.\nExcellent attention to detail and the ability to identify gaps in requirements, acceptance criteria, test cases, and testing coverage.\nStrong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.\nAbility to manage and prioritize multiple testing activities across projects and releases.\nStrong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to work effectively with both technical teams and business users.\nA quality-focused mindset with a strong sense of ownership, accountability, and follow-through.\nRequired Qualifications\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Finance, or a related field.\n5+ years of hands-on QA/testing experience, preferably within financial services.\nStrong financial-services domain knowledge, including experience with financial applications, transactions, data flows, nightly batch cycles, scheduled jobs, business processes, and system integrations.\nStrong knowledge of SDLC, Agile and Waterfall methodologies, QA processes, release management, and the software testing lifecycle.\nStrong experience creating, managing, and executing detailed functional, regression, integration, and end-to-end test cases, including requirements-to-test traceability and test evidence.\nHands-on experience with test and defect-management tools such as JIRA and XRAY, including creating detailed, high-quality defects and working with development and business teams through defect resolution.\nKnowledge of modern QA and AI technologies, including AI-assisted tools for requirements analysis, test-case development, defect analysis, test-data analysis, documentation, and improving overall QA effectiveness.\nSenior / Lead QA Expectations\nOwn and drive the overall quality strategy and functional testing approach.\nEnsure requirements, acceptance criteria, test cases, test results, defects, and supporting evidence maintain clear end-to-end traceability.\nReview test coverage, nightly processing results, open defects, and business-critical scenarios to identify gaps before release signoff.\nDrive QA standards and best practices for test-case documentation, defect quality, test evidence, traceability, and release reporting.\nMentor and guide junior QA team members and help establish consistent QA practices across the team.\nWork closely with business and technology stakeholders to provide a clear assessment of testing status, open risks, defects, business impact, and overall release readiness.\nWork Requirement\nOnsite 4 days a week in office and one day remote\nStandard business hours aligned to project and stakeholder needs(8am to 5pm)\nSalary Range:\n$75,000 - $123,750 AnnualThe range quoted above applies to the role in the primary location specified. If the candidate would ultimately work outside of the primary location above, the applicable range could differ.\nEmployees are eligible to participate in State Street’s comprehensive benefits program, which includes: our retirement savings plan (401K) with company match; insurance coverage including basic life, medical, dental, vision, long-term disability, and other optional additional coverages; paid-time off including vacation, sick leave, short term disability, and family care responsibilities; access to our Employee Assistance Program; incentive compensation including eligibility for annual performance-based awards (excluding certain sales roles subject to sales incentive plans); and, eligibility for certain tax advantaged savings plans.\nFor a full overview, visit https://hrportal.ehr.com/statestreet/Home.\nAbout State Street\nAcross the globe, institutional investors rely on us to help them manage risk, respond to challenges, and drive performance and profitability. We keep our clients at the heart of everything we do, and smart, engaged employees are essential to our continued success.\nWe are committed to fostering an environment where every employee feels valued and empowered to reach their full potential. As an essential partner in our shared success, you’ll benefit from inclusive development opportunities, flexible work-life support, paid volunteer days, and vibrant employee networks that keep you connected to what matters most. Join us in shaping the future.\nAs an Equal Opportunity Employer, we consider all qualified applicants for all positions without regard to race, creed, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, age, disability, genetic information, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, citizenship, marital status, domestic partnership or civil union status, familial status, military and veteran status, and other characteristics protected by applicable law.\nDiscover more information on jobs at StateStreet.com/careers\nRead our CEO Statement\nJob Application Disclosure:\nIt is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. 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