Total 5 quality assurance control job vacancies in Quality Assurance / Control category in ayr ka7 4aa

Join us an Electronic Trading Risk & Control Manager

• We're looking for someone with a commercial and strategic mindset to advise business and technology leads on the mitigation of electronic trading risks
• You’ll be running and improving our three electronic trading control life cycles; algorithm, automated control, and electronic platform
• It’s a chance to work with a variety of stakeholders, giving you a platform to raise your network and career profile across the business

What you'll do

This role will see you providing electronic trading risk expertise to enhance our global risk and control framework. We’ll look to you to review and assess our adherence to the relevant electronic trading policies, and assist with administering the electronic trading governance structure.

Your other key responsibilities will include:

• Investigating and responding to electronic trading risk issues, internal reviews and regulatory inquiries
• Performing independent real time monitoring of algorithmic trading activity
• Assessing existing automated controls for established and emerging risks, identifying gap and weaknesses in the control environment
• Delivering regulatory remediation in the electronic trading space
• Identifying and mitigating non-market risks inherent in the electronic trading businesses
• Collaborating with business risk managers to deliver the risk and control agenda for the business

The skills you'll need

To succeed in this role, you’ll need operational experience in an electronic trading business together with knowledge of financial services businesses, including investment banking. We’d also like you to hold a Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics degree, or appropriate analytical qualifications.

You’ll also need:

• Knowledge of financial services risk and control at different levels of an organisation
• A clear track record of delivery and the ability to work to deadlines and adapt to changing priorities
• The ability to think strategically and to develop targeted and intelligent solutions which are appropriate for the business

Join us as a Governance Quality Manager

• We’ll look to you to provide direction and leadership on all quality matters across the platform or domain including adoption and compliance with the bank's testing standards and policies
• This is an opportunity to act as a key contributor in making sure that compliant work packages transition seamlessly from development into live environments
• Hone your knowledge of quality best practices and collaboration and stakeholder management skills

What you'll do

In this key role, you’ll be managing the test governance as per the bank’s defined testing processes and guidelines, whilst also contributing towards improving test governance and establish significant test governance changes. We’ll also look to you to handle internal and external audits related to testing governance and test processes, contribute towards test processes improvement initiatives, and establish significant process changes.

Additionally, you’ll be:

• Taking accountability for all aspects of governance quality across both run and change and business as usual activity within the assigned platform or domain
• Managing a test governance team spread across different geographical locations
• Taking on result oriented initiatives, monitoring progress and reporting to the leadership team and other stakeholders on a regular basis
• Reviewing all key collateral, ensuring it is of sufficient quality with no gaps or duplication
• Providing support across all business areas with respect to addressing all customer test governance related queries and escalations

The skills you'll need

We’re looking for someone with strong knowledge and understanding of quality standards, quality best practices, and our risk and controls framework. You’ll also need high levels of knowledge and demonstrable application of modern testing and quality practices and techniques used with Agile methodologies.

Additionally, we’ll be looking for:

• Experience in test management, quality assurance, and test governance roles
• Experience in governance of all the Quality Assurance (QA) activities, test results, leaked defects, root cause analysis and identifying areas of improvement
• A strategic thinker with a proven ability to utilise existing test knowledge and experiences, along with the ability to produce practical solutions and alternatives to testing processes
• A self-starter and an excellent team player with a strong sense of ownership and commitment to quality
• Strong communication skills to ensure that QA vision is understood and implemented correctly with key stakeholders

Join us as a Platform Assurance Lead

• We’ll look to you to develop and implement core infrastructure technologies, products and services against customer and non-functional requirements
• In order to achieve a first-class customer experience, you’ll make sure the infrastructure technology is engineered to comply with security, availability and resilience, performance and capacity
• You’ll work with colleagues across the bank, allowing you to expand your network and gain exposure for you and your work

What you'll do

As a Platform Assurance Lead, you’ll be contributing to and managing the selection, creation and maintenance of infrastructure technologies required to meet the needs of our customers, ensuring alignment to the Chief Technology Office (CTO) strategic targets and architecture outcomes.

You’ll also be:

• Making sure the required work in the platform backlog contains detailed acceptance criteria, which ensures that operations support or warranty period is clear and accountable once a system migration is complete
• Responsible for the most complex and risk exposed technical infrastructures
• Producing and providing ongoing management of infrastructure roadmaps, detailing lifecycles of the technology from new products and versions, through to end of support and retirement
• Providing operational support to other infrastructure teams in the event of major incidents or complex technical issues
• Building and leveraging relationships with colleagues across the bank to make sure decisions made are commercially focused and create long term value for the organisation

The skills you'll need

To succeed in this role, you’ll need the ability to understand how your area of expertise supports customers, from the core development of technology to risk based decisions. On top of this, you’ll need a clear understanding of infrastructure layers or stack, and a broad knowledge across multiple platforms such as server, operating system, virtualisation, database, middleware or network.

Along with experience of contributing to roadmaps and strategies and working closely with third parties on assurance of their output and managing their performance, you’ll need the ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to your peers and management level colleagues, with good collaboration and stakeholder management skills.

You’ll also demonstrate:

• Advanced knowledge of network security technologies including products, design and support
• Extensive experience working on Fortinet, F5 and Cisco technologies
• Advanced experience in delivering network security products and services within financial services, including Firewalls, IDS/IPS and Web Application Firewalls
• Knowledge and experience relating to product lifecycle, governance and maturity frameworks
• Knowledge of service management disciplines such as incident, problem, change IT, continuity and capacity

Join us as a Risk & Control Associate

• In this challenging and engaging role, you’ll draft the narrative for control environment reporting and finalise updates for our NatWest Markets business
• You'll oversee risk and control reporting and engage with senior leaders to shape our risk and control agenda
• This is an opportunity to hone your existing industry knowledge and experience and expand your network across the bank

What you'll do

As a Risk & Control Associate, you'll facilitate senior leadership governance and make sure there is a consistent risk and control focus across senior committees. You’ll work in close partnership with the respective line teams to monitor, assess, report and analyse controls, resultant risk issues, trends and governance processes. We’ll look to you to achieve the right balance of assisting and challenging line management and colleagues to make sure operational risk is proactively managed.

Day-to-day, you’ll be managing the risk and control proactively in the first line of defence and act as a bridge between the business and the regional operations controls management and the second line of defence.

You’ll also:

• Review and enhance the business governance and control framework to manage the risks within the unit, with constant engagement with colleagues and line management
• Manage the risk issue and event management process along with the related reporting and MI
• Complete and submit control deliverables like regulation, credit and capital submission, risk review dashboard, environmental control framework certification and assurance testing
• Make sure the business continuity plan is fit for purpose and evaluate the team’s recovery capacity through testing the plan
• Asses the effectiveness of existing SOX controls, risk and control assurance controls and knowledge gaps through assurance testing

The skills you'll need

We’re looking for someone with exposure in risk and control. You'll have an understanding of the business, and risk and control governance with experience of leading strategic committee agendas. You'll also have the ability to summarise large amounts of information into a synthesised form to help management make informed decisions in relation to risk and control. Additionally, you'll understand the importance and influence of visually appealing reporting, and have the ability to structure presentations to facilitate informed decisions.

You’ll also need:

• Excellent attention to detail and influencing and analytical skills
• A good understanding of banking operations
• Effective relationship building and communication skills, with the ability to adapt your delivery style and language to suit the audience and communicate to people at various levels
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft Office, including Word, Excel and PowerPoint
• A strong team player, and promote an effective team environment
• Preferably educated to degree level or with an MBA or CA however this is not essential.

Join us as a Senior Principal Quality Engineer

• Join our Chief Digital Information Office in Commercial & Institutional, where we harness technology innovation, business agility and one-bank collaboration to push the boundaries of what’s possible for our customers
• The wellbeing and growth of our people is fundamental to our shared success, which is why we’re passionate about cultivating an environment that fosters inclusion and champions potential
• Our journey will be challenging and complex, but truly transformative – so if you’re ready to stretch your capability, gain unique experience and shape the future banking experience for generations to come, this is your opportunity

What you'll do

You’re joining a team that’s passionate about the customer vision and delivering a seamless onboarding experience for our customers. Aligned to our ‘Start and Manage my banking relationship’ customer goals, you’ll be working with your colleagues to deliver the technology strategic roadmap, while ensuring the right balance between our business goals and building future technology, at the right cost.

As a Senior Principal Quality Engineer, you’ll provide vision and direction for the software quality engineering function, ensuring alignment with the company's objectives. You’ll develop, implement, and monitor comprehensive software quality assurance policies and procedures. You’ll design and implement test automation frameworks and solutions to ensure efficient and thorough testing cycles and oversee the creation of detailed, comprehensive, and well-structured test plans and test cases.

You’ll be leading the more significant, complex and technically challenging assignments, coordinating multiple feature teams, making sure that their technical journeys support realisation of the targets, and deliver the values of the relevant metrics published to our investors.

You’ll also:

• Manage and prioritise defects, ensuring timely resolution and effective communication to stakeholders
• Coach and mentor junior and mid-level quality engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning
• Analyse quality assurance metrics and drive improvements in processes and practices
• Promote and implement CI/CD practices in coordination with the DevOps and development teams
• Evaluate the potential risk areas in software and prioritise them based on severity

The skills you'll need

You’ll come with significant experience in a software quality assurance leadership role along with SME product strategy experience. You’ll have an expert understanding of the latest market trends, technologies and tools, and bring significant and demonstrable experience of implementing programming best practice. You’ll need certifications such as ISTQB, CSTE, or similar.

You’ll also need:

• Proven experience with test automation tools like Selenium, Appium, JUnit, Groovy Spock, TestNG, or similar
• Experience with CI/CD tools such as TeamCity, GitLab or similar
• Java and SpringBoot programming language knowledge
• A deep understanding of software QA methodologies, tools, and processes
• Hands-on experience with performance, security, white box and black box testing
• Experience in a regulated industry such as finance or banking

If you don’t meet every requirement listed here but feel that you’re right for the role, please apply – because it could be you we’re looking for.