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 leader directs four testing disciplines — Functional, Automated, Performance, and Security Testing — through specialist leads and engineers, partnering with engineering, architecture, and security teams to raise quality across the release pipeline. What You'll Do

• 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 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.
• Security Testing Oversight: Ensure security assessments, vulnerability scanning, and penetration testing are performed on all releases; escalate and track remediation with security architecture and engineering teams.
• Cross-functional leadership: Provide test strategy and quality leadership across manual, automated, performance, and security testing disciplines; collaborate with engineering, architecture, and security teams. What We're Looking For
• 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.
• Experience delivering across manual, automated, performance, and security testing; working knowledge of CI/CD practices.
• Working knowledge of application security testing methodology (OWASP).
• Familiarity with tools: JIRA, TestRail, Zephyr; Selenium, Cypress, Appium; Jenkins, GitHub Actions; JMeter, LoadRunner, Gatling, BlazeMeter; Burp Suite, OWASP ZAP, Nessus, Snyk, Veracode. Nice to Have
• Experience with cloud-native architectures and containerized deployments.
• Strong collaboration skills and ability to influence across engineering, security, and product teams.