Head of QA / Testing - Performance Testing

About the role

Fuku is looking for an accomplished Head of Testing to lead its enterprise-wide Performance Testing and Quality Engineering function. This senior leadership role oversees testing strategy, delivery, governance, performance engineering and end-to-end delivery across complex banking domains.

Key responsibilities

• Lead and manage a large team for performance testing and engineering across multiple business domains, ensuring robust performance, resiliency, scalability and reliability of mission-critical banking systems.
• Define enterprise-level performance testing strategies, standards and governance frameworks aligned with SDLC processes, working closely with engineering, DevOps and architecture teams.
• Oversee the design and execution of performance, capacity, resiliency and fail-point testing using various tools.
• Drive test data strategy, scalability analysis, workload modelling and infrastructure-level performance evaluation.
• Manage multi-vendor testing partners and the test delivery team.
• Champion continuous improvement, performance engineering best practices, automation, service virtualization and cloud-based performance considerations.
• Ensure effective reporting, defect management (JIRA), SLA measurement and clear communication of performance insights to leadership and delivery teams.

Required profile

• Over 15 years of leadership experience in testing within large and complex organisations.
• Background in financial institutions is advantageous.
• Proven experience leading large teams across automation and performance testing.
• Skilled in senior stakeholder engagement and vendor management.

Required skills

• Strong proficiency with a wide range of testing tools and frameworks.
• Expertise in test strategy, QA engineering and performance testing across multiple platforms.
• Well-versed in DevOps practices and quality management frameworks.

Candidates should send their latest resume by email to the recruiter named in the original posting.