perience: 15 – 18 Years
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ob Type: Full Time
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ob Description:
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alor PayTech is seeking an accomplished Director of QA to lead the organization’s quality strategy, testing governance, automation initiatives, and quality engineering practices across all products and platforms, including its FinTech and CRM platforms. This role will be responsible for establishing a culture of quality, driving continuous improvement, ensuring product reliability, and leading high-performing QA teams to deliver world-class software solutions.
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hat We’re Looking For
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his is a hands-on leadership role. We are looking for a quality leader who is, above all:
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e- lf-Starter — operates with autonomy and a strong bias for action; sets the quality agenda in ambiguity and owns outcomes end-to-end without waiting to be told.
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e- chnically Hands-On — while not expected to operate at core-development depth, maintains real technical grounding — can dive into automation frameworks, test code, API and performance suites, and CI/CD pipelines, and make sound engineering trade-offs.
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t- rategic — connects quality investment to business risk and outcomes, anticipates where coverage and reliability gaps will hurt most, and prioritizes accordingly.
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r- eat Administrator — runs the QA organization with operational rigor — capacity planning, release-readiness governance, defect triage cadence, environment and test-data management, and metrics-driven accountability.
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ey Responsibilities
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uality Strategy & Leadership
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e- fine and execute the organization’s quality assurance vision, strategy, and roadmap.
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s- tablish enterprise-wide QA standards, methodologies, processes, and governance frameworks.
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r- ive quality engineering transformation initiatives, including automation, performance testing, and continuous testing practices.
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e- velop and implement quality metrics, KPIs, and reporting mechanisms to measure product quality and team effectiveness.
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est Management & Quality Engineering
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- ersee end-to-end testing activities across multiple products, applications, and platforms.
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e- fine and implement comprehensive test strategies covering functional, integration, regression, performance, security, and user acceptance testing.
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n- sure consistent test planning, execution, defect management, and release readiness assessments.
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r- ive adoption of modern testing methodologies, tools, and automation frameworks.
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s- tablish risk-based testing approaches and quality gates throughout the software development lifecycle.
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utomation & Continuous Improvement
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- ad enterprise-wide test automation initiatives to improve efficiency, coverage, and release velocity.
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s- tablish automation standards, frameworks, and best practices across teams.
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r- ive continuous improvement through root cause analysis, defect prevention, and process optimization.
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o- llaborate with DevOps and Engineering teams to integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines.
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v- aluate emerging QA technologies and tools to enhance testing effectiveness.
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A Operations & Administration
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- n resource allocation and capacity planning across QA teams against competing release and project demands.
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p- erate release-readiness and quality-gate governance to ensure controlled, auditable releases.
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s- tablish defect triage cadence and prioritization, and drive accountability to closure.
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a- nage test environments and test-data strategy to keep teams unblocked and coverage realistic.
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n- strument QA with metrics — track coverage, defect leakage, automation ROI, and cycle time — and report against them.
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uality Governance & Compliance
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- sure adherence to quality standards, security requirements, compliance obligations, and internal governance policies.
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s- tablish audit readiness and quality control processes across development and release cycles.
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r- ive quality reviews, process assessments, and corrective action initiatives.
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a- rtner with stakeholders to identify risks and implement mitigation strategies.
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eadership & Stakeholder Management
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- ild, mentor, and lead high-performing QA and Quality Engineering teams.
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o- llaborate closely with Engineering, Product Management, DevOps, and Business stakeholders to align quality objectives with organizational goals.
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r- ovide regular quality updates, metrics, and strategic recommendations to executive leadership.
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equired Qualifications
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- –18 years of experience in Quality Assurance, Software Testing, or Quality Engineering, depending on technical proficiency and other factors.
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e- monstrated self-starter — sets the quality agenda in ambiguity and drives outcomes end-to-end without close oversight.
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e- chnically hands-on — able to work directly in automation frameworks, test code, API/performance suites, and CI/CD pipelines.
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r- oven experience leading large-scale QA organizations and enterprise testing programs.
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t- rong expertise in test strategy, quality governance, test management, and software development lifecycles.
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x- tensive experience with automation testing frameworks, performance testing, and continuous testing practices.
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a- nds-on experience managing quality assurance across web, mobile, API, cloud, and enterprise applications.
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t- rong understanding of Agile, Scrum, DevOps, CI/CD, and modern software delivery practices.
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x- perience managing geographically distributed and cross-functional teams.
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referred Qualifications
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a- chelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline.
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x- perience in payments processing, payment gateways, POS terminals, merchant services, transaction processing, or other highly regulated financial environments.
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x- perience in SaaS, Enterprise Software, or other regulated, high-availability domains.
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e- rtification in Quality Assurance, Agile, Testing, or Project Management is desirable.
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x- perience with cloud-based applications and modern quality engineering practices.
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ey Competencies
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u- ality Leadership and Governance
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t- rategic Planning and Execution
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e- st Automation and Continuous Improvement
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p- erational Rigor and QA Administration
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t- akeholder Management and Communication
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e- am Building and Mentorship
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i- sk Assessment and Problem Solving
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e- cision-Making and Change Management
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referred Technical Environment
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esting: Functional, Regression, Integration, UAT, Performance, Security Testing
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utomation: Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, Appium, TestNG, JUnit
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PI Testing: Postman, Rest Assured, SoapUI
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erformance Testing: JMeter, LoadRunner, Gatling
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efect Management: Jira, Azure DevOps, Bugzilla
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loud Platforms: AWS, Azure, Google Cloud
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ethodologies: Ag
