QA Automation Lead

Permanent full-time hybrid

Connecting clients to markets and talent to opportunity.

With 4300 employees and over 400000 retail and institutional clients from more than 80 offices spread across five continents were a Fortune-100 Nasdaq-listed provider connecting clients to the global markets focusing on innovation human connection and providing world-class products and services to all types of investors.

Whether you want to forge a career connecting our retail clients to potential trading opportunities or ingrain yourself in the world of institutional investing The StoneX Group is made up of four segments that offer endless potential for progression and growth.

Business Segment Overview:A Swift-accredited service bureau and member our Payments division provides NGOs institutions and non-profits the ability to make a local difference globally with transparent pricing across 180 countries and 140 currencies.

Position Purpose: Were looking for a QA Automation Lead to elevate quality across our Global Payments organization. This is a strategic hands-on leadership role that combines deep automation expertise with ownership of end-to-end UAT programs. You will define quality engineering standards architect scalable automation solutions mentor engineers and partner with Product DevOps and Operations to ensure our mission-critical payments platform is secure resilient and ready for production.

As a senior technical leader youll influence engineering culture guide teams toward best practices and ensure testability observability and automation are built into everything we deliver. This role is ideal for someone ready to move beyond individual contributions into leading people processes and technology within a modern engineering organization.

Primary duties will include:

Automation Strategy & Technical Leadership

• Define the automation vision roadmap and standards for frontend backend and API testing across the Global Payments group.

• Architect and maintain scalable reusable automation frameworks (Playwright xUnit NBomber etc.).

• Ensure automated test suites are reliable fast and deeply integrated into CI/CD (Azure DevOps GitHub Actions).

• Establish quality gates code coverage expectations and best practices for test design data management and environments.

Continuous Delivery & Secure Testing

• Partner with DevOps and SecOps to embed automated security practices (SAST DAST dependency scanning) into the delivery pipeline.

• Drive adoption of shift-left testing including contract tests static analysis and performance testing.

• Monitor CI/CD health triage failures and ensure automation remains a first-class citizen in the delivery lifecycle.

UAT Leadership & Business Partnership

• Own the planning coordination execution and sign-off of UAT cycles across features releases and compliance-driven changes.

• Create structured UAT plans acceptance criteria runbooks and stakeholder communications.

• Lead cross-functional defect triage ensuring issues are addressed quickly and transparently.

• Act as a bridge between engineering teams and business operations (settlements reconciliations payments workflows).

Quality Governance & Team Development

• Mentor and upskill QA and automation engineers; guide developers on improving testability and adopting quality practices.

• Champion continuous improvement efforts driving metrics observability and quality KPIs for teams and leadership.

• Collaborate with Product and Engineering leadership to prioritize quality initiatives testing infrastructure and tooling investments.

To land this role you will need:

Technical & Domain Expertise

• 7 years in test automation quality engineering or SDET roles including experience leading automation initiatives or teams.

• Strong coding and test-development skills in JavaScript/TypeScript Python Java or C#.

• Hands-on mastery of automation frameworks (Playwright Cypress Selenium xUnit or equivalent).

• Familiarity with secure testing tools (SonarQube Snyk Checkmarx Trivy) and modern CI/CD systems.

• Experience in financial services payments FX settlements reconciliations SWIFT or ISO 20022 is a strong plus.

Leadership & Collaboration

• Proven ability to lead engineers guide teams and influence stakeholders without formal authority.

• Excellent communicator with the ability to translate technical detail into business insights.

• Strong problem-solving skills and a passion for raising the bar on engineering quality.

Education / Certification Requirements:

• Bachelors degree or higher in Engineering (Computer Systems Software IT&T Systems) or relevant experience.

Working environment:

• FTE (UoP).
• Hybrid at ul. Mogilska 35 we have private parking for employees.

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