Software Quality Assurance Lead, Vice President

State Street

Confirmed live yesterday High trust
Hybrid

Quick summary

Work type
Hybrid
Location
Irvine, CA
Employment
Full-time
Posted
14 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday

Market check

Salary context

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $176k
$126k $223k
below market most similar roles pay here above market

This listing doesn't post a salary. Most similar roles pay $142,300–$209,725.

Based on 240 similar postings.

Employer

About State Street

State Street Corporation is one of the world''s largest custodian banks and asset managers, providing investment servicing, investment management, and investment research to institutional investors. Industry: Financial Services & Asset Custody

State Street currently has 351 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $115,000–$195,944 across 199 roles with salary data.

Most-posted roles

View all roles at State Street

At a glance

TL;DR · Software Quality Assurance Lead, Vice President

The Software Quality Assurance (SQA) Lead, Vice President, Onsite joins the technology team to champion quality engineering excellence across strategic initiatives. This leader will define enterprise quality strategies, automation roadmaps, and governance processes for both modern cloud-native platforms and legacy enterprise applications. Daily responsibilities include designing scalable test automation frameworks, driving continuous testing within CI/CD pipelines, and mentoring QA engineers. The role requires proficiency in Java, Selenium, Playwright, and Cucumber (BDD), alongside experience with Amazon ECS, EKS, Sybase, and Oracle. The candidate will solve complex problems regarding scalability, resiliency, and disaster recovery for financial services platforms. Additionally, the role leverages AI-powered tools like GitHub Copilot, MCP Servers, and LLMs to improve engineering efficiency and test coverage across distributed systems and microservices.

What you'll do

  • Define and execute enterprise quality engineering strategies, standards, and automation roadmaps.
  • Design, develop, and maintain scalable test automation frameworks using Java, Selenium, Playwright, and Cucumber.
  • Drive automation across Functional, Regression, Integration, End-to-End, Smoke, and Sanity testing initiatives.
  • Embed continuous testing practices within CI/CD pipelines and Agile delivery frameworks.
  • Lead testing for cloud-native applications on Amazon ECS and EKS to ensure scalability and resiliency.
  • Establish quality metrics, reporting, and governance processes to provide visibility into application quality.
  • Leverage AI-powered tools like GitHub Copilot and LLMs to improve test coverage and engineering efficiency.
  • Mentor and develop QA engineers in automation, cloud testing, and AI-enabled testing practices.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.
  • 12+ years of experience in Software Quality Assurance, Test Automation, or Quality Engineering.
  • 5+ years of experience leading QA teams and enterprise testing initiatives.
  • Experience leading quality engineering for large-scale financial services platforms spanning legacy technologies and modern architectures.
  • Experience testing applications on AWS, including EC2, ECS, and EKS.
  • Knowledge of CI/CD tools and DevOps practices.
  • Knowledge of GitHub Copilot, AI-assisted development tools, MCP Servers, and Large Language Models (LLMs) (preferred).
  • Financial Services industry experience (preferred).
  • Relevant certifications such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect, AWS Certified Developer, ISTQB, Certified Scrum Master, or AI/ML certifications (preferred).

More like this

Similar roles

Software Engineering & Development, Vice President

State Street

Quincy, MA 19 days ago $120,000–$217,500
Microsoft Azure Java C Cloud-native Architecture DevOps Artificial Intelligence Data Platforms Automation Cybersecurity Governance Frameworks
10+ yrs exp Hybrid

Senior Lead SW Quality Engineer

Northern Trust

Chicago, IL 18 days ago $95,600–$162,400
Salesforce Apex SOQL Java JavaScript TypeScript Python C# Selenium Playwright Cypress WebdriverIO Cucumber REST Assured Postman Newman Azure DevOps GitHub Actions Jenkins Git Agile DevOps API Testing Service Virtualization test-data management Generative AI
10+ yrs exp

AVP Quality Engineering Lead

LPL Financial

Fort Mill, SC +2 14 days ago
Python AWS TypeScript Playwright Selenium Cypress Rest Assured Karate SQL PostgreSQL Oracle Docker Kubernetes CI/CD DevOps Kafka JMeter LoadRunner BlazeMeter Gatling ECS EKS Fargate S3 RDS Aurora DynamoDB Lambda API Gateway Agile Scrum DevSecOps
10+ yrs exp

Quality Software Engineer Lead - VP

Citi

Tampa, FL 11 days ago
Java TypeScript JavaScript Node.js Playwright Cucumber Selenium WebDriver Docker OpenShift Tekton Harness CI/CD Shell Scripting SDLC BDD Testing Frameworks
6+ yrs exp Hybrid