Qa Manager

Permanent Opportunity
- Flexible working environment
- Australian FinTech

**Be the inventor and enabler of our business.**
Where else will you get the chance to build products from scratch? Products that impact the lives of millions of people in the everyday. At Cuscal, our tech team are the hands and heart for what we do best. They're the inventors, the creators, the enablers of our business. They turn ideas into reality. They test. They refine. They perfect.

Instead of being pigeon-holed, you're supported to follow your ideas and bring them to life. But you don't need to be a payments nerd to thrive here. You just need to be curious. You need to be motivated. And you need to be inspired to do bigger, better.

**We are looking for a QA Manager to join our Shared Services and Finance Crime domains**

As the QA Manager you will be responsible for the coaching, mentoring, development and performance management of your team ensuring QA standards and best practices are implemented across the domains.

In this role you will be responsible for:

- Setting the QA practice OKR's and aligning with Company OKR's.
- Ensuring the quality of work being delivered by the QA team meets the definition of done in line with the practice standards.
- Managing QA members leave requests by consulting the domains.
- Engaging with the Domain/Domain Lead's on escalations & other practices for cross functional end to end delivery.
- Stakeholder management of functional role with non-product environments
- Setting the QA standards and best practices within Cuscal and aligning it to the domain.
- Building capability and maturity of the QA practice based on best practiced in the market.
- Benchmarking based on strategic competitive analysis, best practice and building into a roadmap.
- Providing upskilling, training and career development framework for QA practice members.
- Creating upskilling plans for new starters and managing the progress.
- Liaising with remuneration manager and P&C team to benchmark the QA practice roles
- Designing, driving and continually developing practice standards against the maturity model.
- Vendor management of contractors and tools.
- Reviewing and seek approvals for statements of work including liaising with the vendor management office.
- Developing QA practice roadmaps and ensure alignment to the Domain roadmap.

To be successful in this position you will have the following skills and experience:

- 5+ years of experience as a 'QA Manager' in the IT industry within a practice stream.
- Established experience in the principles of functional and non-functional testing with key experience in:

- o Adopting/Defining test frameworks to deliver the outcomes.
- o Worked on more than one automation tools being proficient to develop automation roadmaps for the squads.
- o Experience in systems performance assessment and evaluation of performance outcomes.
- o Experience in systems resilience assessment and suggestion of corrective actions.
- Efficient verbal and written communication skills with attention to detail
- Excellent time management skills
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Strong management and leadership skills

**Desirable**:

- Experience with automation tools and frameworks

**Why Cuscal?**
We are in the rapidly evolving world of payments, and we are committed to providing a diverse and inclusive workplace where the very best talent in Australia chooses to work. We support our colleagues with flexible work arrangements through our hybrid model whilst also offering a wide range of educational, financial, lifestyle, health & wellbeing benefits.

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