QA Analyst - Vice President

QA Analyst - Vice President

Job Level: Vice President

Job Function:
Business Resilience & Security

Location:

Charlotte, NC, US, 28202

Employment Type:

Full Time

Requisition

SMBC Group is a top-tier global financial group. Headquartered in Tokyo and with a 400-year history, SMBC Group offers a diverse range of financial services, including banking, leasing, securities, credit cards, and consumer finance. The Group has more than 130 offices and 80,000 employees worldwide in nearly 40 countries. Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc. (SMFG) is the holding company of SMBC Group, which is one of the three largest banking groups in Japan.

SMFG's shares trade on the Tokyo, Nagoya, and New York (NYSE: SMFG) stock exchanges.

In the Americas, SMBC Group has a presence in the US, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Peru. Backed by the capital strength of SMBC Group and the value of its relationships in Asia, the Group offers a range of commercial and investment banking services to its corporate, institutional, and municipal clients. It connects a diverse client base to local markets and the organization's extensive global network.

The Group's operating companies in the Americas include Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. (SMBC), SMBC Nikko Securities America, Inc., SMBC Capital Markets, Inc., SMBC MANUBANK, JRI America, Inc., SMBC Leasing and Finance, Inc., Banco Sumitomo Mitsui Brasileiro S.A., and Sumitomo Mitsui Finance and Leasing Co., Ltd.

Role Description

The VP, Lead QA Engineer - Cyber Data Warehouse (CyberDW), is a critical role within the Information Security department and reports to the Director, Cyber Data Governance & Data Quality for the SMBC Americas Division.

This role is responsible for leading Quality Assurance (QA) testing efforts across the Cyber Data Warehouse (CyberDW) platform, ensuring the accuracy, integrity, reliability, and completeness of cybersecurity, risk, and operational data used for analytics, reporting, governance, and Continuous Controls Monitoring (CCM).

The successful candidate will establish and execute the CyberDW QA testing strategy, partnering closely with Cyber Security, Technology, Data Engineering, Data Governance, and Business stakeholders. The role will be responsible for validating data pipelines, ETL processes, data transformations, data products, dashboards, controls, and regulatory reporting outputs while ensuring adherence to enterprise quality standards.

As part of the overall cyber data modernization initiative, this individual will help build a scalable testing framework supporting the Cyber Data Lakehouse and establish best practices for functional testing, data testing, regression testing, automation, reconciliation, and release validation.

Note:

This is a hybrid role, requiring the successful candidate to attend our Charlotte office.

Role Objectives

* Lead end-to-end Quality Assurance (QA) testing activities across the Cyber Data Warehouse (CyberDW) platform, ensuring delivery of high-quality, reliable, and scalable data solutions.

* Develop and maintain comprehensive test strategies, test plans, test cases, test scripts, and testing standards for CyberDW initiatives.

* Validate data ingestion processes, ETL/ELT pipelines, transformations, business rules, and data integrations across cybersecurity data domains.

* Perform source-to-target data validation, reconciliation testing, and data integrity testing to ensure accuracy, completeness, consistency, and timeliness of CyberDW data assets.

* Design, execute, and maintain functional, integration, regression, system, performance, and user acceptance testing (UAT) processes.

* Establish and implement automated testing frameworks and reusable test assets to improve testing efficiency, coverage, and consistency.

* Partner closely with Data Engineers, Data Governance, Information Security, and Technology teams to review requirements, identify test scenarios, and ensure solutions meet business and technical expectations.

* Identify, document, prioritize, and track defects through resolution, validating fixes and ensuring successful remediation before production deployment.

* Perform root cause analysis of data, application, and reporting issues, recommending corrective actions and process improvements.

* Validate dashboards, reports, metrics, and analytical outputs to ensure the accuracy of cybersecurity, risk, and operational reporting.

* Support Agile delivery processes by participating in backlog grooming, sprint planning, requirements reviews, and release validation activities.

* Define, monitor, and report on QA metrics, testing progress, defect trends, release readiness, and overall quality health to leadership and stakeholders.

* Ensure testing processes align with enterprise SDLC, risk management, audit, compliance, and cybersecurity standards.

* Maintain comprehensive test documentation, testing evidence, and audit-ready records to support regulatory and internal control requirements.

* Continuously improve QA methodologies, testing…