IDB Invest - IT QA Practice Consultant

IT QA Practice Consultant

IDB Invest - IT QA Practice Consultant City:
Washington DC Company: IDB Invest Posting End Date: 8/19/2026 11:59 PM EST

We improve lives IDB Invest is the private sector arm of the IDB Group and an international financial institution committed to addressing the development needs of Latin America and the Caribbean. Our mission is to support sustainable enterprises and projects that deliver financial results while maximizing social and environmental impact in the region. IDB Invest operates in 26 countries, structured across four geographic regions and three industry verticals:
Infrastructure and Energy, Financial Intermediaries, and Corporates. In support of a new transformative business model "Originate to Share" our shareholders recently approved a $3.5 billion capitalization. This will allow IDB Invest to significantly scale up its investments, to approximately $19 billion, and unlocking greater private sector participation to drive development and climate impact across the region.

We are looking for an experienced, strategic, and collaborative IT QA Practice consultant. As IT QA Practice consultant, you will establish and operationalize the enterprise QA governance practice by implementing quality standards, governance frameworks, reusable methodologies, and oversight mechanisms that support successful SaaS implementations and technology-enabled business initiatives. You will work in the Information Technology and Analytics (ITA) Department. This team is responsible for leading IDB Invest's technology modernization agenda by delivering enterprise technology solutions, strengthening digital capabilities, and supporting the organization's strategic business objectives.

Lead the design, mobilization, operationalization, and continuous improvement of the centralized QA governance practice. Assess QA maturity across SaaS initiatives and evaluate the existing QA Framework and operational manual, identifying execution gaps and recommending actionable improvements. Define the QA operating model, including roles, decision rights, governance forums, escalation paths, and engagement with project teams, vendors, system integrators, consultants, and business stakeholders.

Develop and maintain enterprise QA standards, methods, templates, checklists, and reusable assets covering functional, non-functional, performance, security, compliance, data, integration/API, UAT, monitoring, and automated testing. Establish a portfolio-level QA roadmap aligned with the IT Roadmap, addressing priorities, shared assets, risks, dependencies, and sequencing across transformation initiatives. Define and enforce quality gates for test, integration, data migration, security, compliance, UAT, operational, production-support, and go-live readiness.

Establish defect management, requirements traceability, test evidence, auditability, and reporting standards, and provide oversight of project QA strategies, plans, execution artifacts, and readiness packs. Coach project QA Engineers and consultants, promote adoption of centralized practices, and build shared accountability among IT, business stakeholders, and delivery partners. Define QA metrics, KPIs, dashboards, and leadership reporting to provide accurate, actionable, and evidence-based visibility into quality, risks, and release readiness.

Provide independent go-live quality assessments, residual-risk recommendations, and continuous improvement through lessons learned, recurring-issue analysis, and updates to QA standards and reusable assets.

Education:

Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related technical field.

Experience:

You have at least 2 years of relevant experience in quality assurance, software testing, quality engineering, or technology delivery, including implementing QA frameworks and governance models, coordinating testing activities across cross-functional teams and external vendors, executing functional, regression, performance, API, data migration, and security-related testing, supporting UAT and test automation, developing QA metrics and dashboards for project governance and leadership reporting, and promoting standardized QA practices through guidance and coaching of delivery teams.

Professional certifications in software testing, QA, agile delivery, project management, risk, audit, or related disciplines are desirable. Relevant certifications may include ISTQB, PMP, PMI-ACP, SAFe, CISA, CRISC, ITIL, or equivalent.

Languages:

Proficiency in English and one of the other Bank official languages (Spanish, French or Portuguese) is required. Requirements Citizenship:
No requirements Consanguinity:
You have no family members (up to the fourth degree of consanguinity and second degree of affinity, including spouse) working at the IDB, IDB Invest, or IDB Lab. Type of contract and duration International consultant:
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