Overview
The Quality Assurance Lead will engage in a pivotal role within a transformative technology initiative focused on creating a next-generation trading platform for a global commodities trading organization. Collaborating with senior leadership and cross-functional technology teams, the contractor will establish and enforce QA standards, govern user acceptance testing (UAT) readiness, and play an influential role in critical go-live decisions to ensure the delivery of a business-critical platform that supports global energy trading operations.
Responsibilities
- Own and implement the programme-wide QA strategy across multiple delivery streams and platforms.
- Define and oversee end-to-end testing for business-critical trading, logistics, finance, and reporting processes.
- Ensure complete traceability between UAT acceptance criteria and validated test coverage.
- Lead cross-system integration testing, identifying risks and gaps across interconnected platforms and services.
- Coordinate validation activities for a large portfolio of business reports, ensuring data accuracy and stakeholder sign-off prior to UAT.
- Define UAT entry and exit criteria and provide governance over readiness decisions.
- Act as a trusted advisor to programme leadership, communicating quality status, risks, and recommendations to senior stakeholders and steering committees.
- Drive collaboration across agile and release-based delivery teams, ensuring consistent QA standards across the programme.
Requirements
- Significant experience leading quality assurance at programme or portfolio level within large-scale technology transformation programmes.
- Mandatory experience within commodities trading technology environments, with a strong understanding of physical and financial trading operations.
- Deep knowledge of the front-to-back trade lifecycle, including trade capture, risk management, P&L, settlements, accounting, and reporting processes.
- Experience with reporting and data validation tools, including QlikSense, QlikView, PowerBI, and Claude.
- Proven success designing and delivering end-to-end test strategies across multiple business-critical systems, teams, and stakeholders.
- Experience defining and governing UAT entry and exit criteria for complex programme deliveries.
- Strong understanding of integration testing, APIs, messaging frameworks, and event-driven architectures.
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the confidence to challenge delivery teams, escalate risks, and influence senior business and technology leaders.