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Head of Quality
Zurich, Warsaw | 80-100% | Reference 7816
A senior technology leader responsible for ensuring the reliability, accuracy, and regulatory compliance of software products within the financial information ecosystem. The Head of Quality & Testing defines and drives the quality strategy to guarantee that marketcritical applications, including realtime and reference data collection, processing and distribution systems, meet the highest standards of availability, performance, resilience, and data integrity.
Combining deep technical expertise with strong leadership, this role oversees end-to-end testing, quality engineering, test automation, nonfunctional testing, and continuous improvement initiatives. The position acts as a key stakeholder in driving engineering excellence, partnering closely with product, development, DevOps, and architecture teams to embed quality as a shared responsibility across the organization.
With a strong command of financial domain requirements, this role ensures that quality engineering practices support the tight latency expectations, precision demands, and operational risk constraints inherent to the financial information industry.
What You Will Do
- define and drive the overall quality strategy for realtime and reference data systems
- lead and develop distributed Quality Engineering teams and foster a culture of excellence
- implement and evolve testing methodologies and automation frameworks across functional and nonfunctional testing
- introduce and scale AI-driven quality engineering practices such as intelligent automation and anomaly detection
- establish and maintain quality metrics, dashboards and datadriven processes that support continuous improvement
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What You Bring
- deep expertise in software testing methodologies, automation frameworks and quality engineering
- strong leadership experience managing large, distributed teams in hybrid delivery environments
- advanced knowledge of market data systems, timeseries data and financial information workflows
- proven ability to apply AI and ML in modernizing quality engineering and testing processes
- excellent stakeholdermanagement, communication and crossfunctional collaboration skills
If you have any questions, check out our FAQ page or call Mateusz Kozielec at +41583998611.
For this vacancy we only accept direct applications.
Diversity is important to us. Therefore, we are looking to receiving applications regardless of any personal background.
What We Offer
Flexible Work Models
We trust our employees and offer a work environment that is well-balanced, productive and fosters success.
Personal Development
You will benefit from a culture of continuous learning and feedback. Your personal growth is supported through an extensive learning offering.
Agile Working Methods
Whether through scrum or design thinking,
we solve exciting tasks together in teams.