Head, Quality Assurance & Testing Centre

About the
Role

The Head, Quality
Assurance & Testing Centre ensures Polaris Bank's software ships reliably,
performs under load, and is free of critical defects and security
vulnerabilities before reaching production. This role directs four testing
disciplines — Functional, Automated, Performance, and Security Testing —
through specialist leads and engineers.

Key
Responsibilities

Functional
Testing Oversight

• Ensure comprehensive functional,
  regression, and system integration testing across all releases
  
• Set test case design and defect
  tracking standards
  

Automated
Testing Oversight

• Direct the build -out and maintenance
  of test automation frameworks integrated into CI/CD pipelines
  
• Drive toward the bank's target
  automation coverage to enable faster, safer release cycles
  

Performance
Testing Oversight

• Ensure systems are validated for
  performance, scalability, and load capacity before major releases
  
• Oversee performance monitoring
  practices that catch degradation before it affects customers
  

Security
Testing Oversight

• Ensure security assessments,
  vulnerability scanning, and penetration testing are performed on all
  releases
  
• Escalate and track remediation of
  identified vulnerabilities in coordination with security architecture and
  engineering teams
  

Core
Competencies

• Test strategy and quality leadership
  across manual, automated, performance, and security testing disciplines
  
• CI/CD -integrated automation practices
  
• Working knowledge of application
  security testing methodology (OWASP)
  
• Cross -functional coordination with
  engineering, architecture, and security teams
  

Familiarity
With Tools (used by the function's teams)

JIRA, TestRail,
Zephyr; Selenium, Cypress, Appium, TestNG, JUnit, Postman, RestAssured,
Jenkins, GitHub Actions; JMeter, LoadRunner, Gatling, BlazeMeter; Burp Suite,
OWASP ZAP, Nessus, Snyk, Veracode

Requirements

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science
  or related field; ISTQB or equivalent certification an advantage
  
• Demonstrated track record leading
  QA/testing functions in a fast -release software environment, ideally
  banking or fintech