Quality Software Engineer Lead Vice President

Overview of the Role

Citi is a leading global bank with approximately 200 million customer accounts across more than 160 countries. The organization offers a broad range of financial products and services, including consumer banking, corporate and investment banking, securities brokerage, transaction services, and wealth management. The Enterprise Operations & Technology teams support Citi’s mission by building technology solutions that keep the bank safe, manage global resources, and provide the tools needed for a first‑class customer experience.

We are committed to diversity and inclusion, and we look for innovators who bring an authentic self to work and deliver results with pride.

Are you a highly skilled and motivated Senior Quality Engineering Lead ready to make a significant impact in finance? Join our vision enforcement of quality engineering in the “Margin Calculations and Reporting” Platform within the Prime Finance Services organization.

• Lead a QA team and ensure adherence to testing strategy, guidelines, standards, and bank‑approved frameworks.
• Design and implement modular, scalable automation frameworks aligned with the bank’s engineering patterns and architectural standards.
• Develop BDD‑aligned automated tests using Cucumber and the bank’s standardized testing frameworks, ensuring scenarios reflect business intent and comply with internal governance.
• Integrate automated tests in CI/CD pipelines to establish quality gates for deterministic, fast, and reliable feedback on code changes.
• Analyze failures, improve signal quality, and provide actionable diagnostics for tests that fail for the right reasons.
• Drive test data, environment readiness, and observability to support reliable automation execution.
• Partner early with developers, product owners, and business analysts to shape requirements, define acceptance criteria, and prevent defects.
• Champion engineering‑led quality practices that align with the bank’s SDLC, risk controls, and regulatory expectations.

• 6+ years of IT testing experience.
• Excellent knowledge of software testing techniques and testing tools.
• Familiarity with software development and testing life‑cycle methodologies.
• Strong communication, diplomacy, and influencing skills.

• Experience building automation frameworks using Typescript or JavaScript on Node.js, following modular, maintainable patterns.
• Hands‑on expertise with Playwright for UI automation, including fixtures, parallel execution, tracing, and deterministic test design.
• Proficiency with Cucumber‑JS for BDD workflows, including step definitions, hooks, data strategies, and integration.

• Strong experience building automation frameworks with Java, using JDKs and clean, maintainable design patterns.
• Proficiency with Cucumber‑Java, including step definition architecture, dependency injection, and parallel execution strategies.
• Hands‑on experience with Selenium Web Driver (Java) for UI automation, covering grid execution, stability patterns, and cross‑browser coverage.
• Familiarity with Playwright for Java and its integration within Java‑based automation coverage.

• Strong experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines.
• Familiarity with Tekton tasks, pipelines, and trigger concepts.
• Experience with Harness as an orchestration and governance layer.
• Proficiency using Docker to containerize automation workloads in Open Shift, with knowledge of pods, routes, config maps, and secrets.
• Strong shell scripting skills for pipeline automation, environment setup, debugging, log analysis, and operational tooling.
• Ability to troubleshoot CI/CD failures across containers, pipelines, and cluster‑based execution using logs, metrics, and observability tools.

• Bachelor’s or University degree (Master’s degree preferred).

Salary is complemented by discretionary and formulaic incentive and retention awards (where applicable). Competitive benefits include medical, dental, and vision coverage; 401(k); life, accident, and disability insurance; wellness programs; paid vacation, sick leave, and paid holidays. Benefits may vary by jurisdiction, job level, and date of hire.

Citi is an equal opportunity employer, and qualified candidates will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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