Manager, Quality Assurance

Manager, Quality Assurance

About Vestmark:

Headquartered outside of Boston, MA, Vestmark is a leading provider of portfolio management and trading solutions for the wealth management industry. Supporting over $1.5 trillion in assets and 5 million accounts, Vestmark is a trusted partner to some of the largest and most respected wealth management firms, offering an innovative SaaS platform and comprehensive suite of outsourced services. Founded in 2001 with the mission of improving investment outcomes for all investors, Vestmark is a privately-owned company on the forefront of innovation and disruption of the FinTech industry.

About the Position:

We are looking for a Manager, Quality Assurance who will report into our Quality Engineering organization. Our Quality Engineering organization is responsible for championing a ‘Quality first’ mindset across our cross-functional scrum teams, expanding our testing tools and technologies, ensuring the success of our implementation and client delivery teams, and leading the investigation and resolution of production-critical issues.

At the core, this position is focused on leading a team of people who are passionate about using technology to drive quality and ensure an excellent customer experience. This includes QA Automation Engineers and Software Engineers.

In addition to leading a team, our managers have additional responsibilities that align with their interests and expertise. Through their technical or organizational leadership, their mission is to ensure that their area of focus is continually evolving and is well understood and supported throughout engineering and other departments. We are looking for someone that is always thinking about continuous improvement, draws upon their experience and observations, and is willing to be a vocal advocate for change. We want someone that will make us better!

Key Responsibilities:

• Serve and collaborate as a team leader in a distributed work environment
• Monitor and determine various staffing and professional development needs
• Recruit, hire, mentor, coach, and energize engineering staff members
• Contribute to the continuation of growth and development of our Scrum organization by promoting Scrum’s values: Courage, Focus, Commitment, Respect and Openness
• Lead an area of focus or a discipline within Quality Engineering. Additional responsibilities will be defined based on an area of focus, but may include:
  • Organize/lead a Chapter
  • Ensure thorough documentation and knowledge transfer
  • Define metrics
  • Represent your area of focus in meetings with Scrum teams, Products, Senior Management, external teams, department meetings, etc.
• Contribute to the growth and development of our core values: We Before Me, Positive Energy, Knowledge Explorer, and Own It

Qualifications (Required Skills):

• B.S. or M.S. in a Technical Discipline, Finance, or equivalent work experience
• 3-5 years of proven experience leading quality or software teams
• 2+ years of hands-on leadership experience with Scrum

Preferred Skills (Nice to Have):

• Experience in the Fintech industry
• Experience with issue tracking systems: Jira
• Test automation or performance testing tools: Selenium and JMeter
• Source control and CI tools: Bitbucket and Jenkins
• Application monitoring tools: AppDynamics, Solarwinds and Splunk
• Release management tools: Nexus

What Vestmark Offers:

Vestmark offers the ability to develop strong relationships with colleagues who enjoy collaborating, a flexible work-life balance, managers who respect and listen to their ideas and a competitive salary and benefits.

Vestmark also offers a strong value-based culture while working on challenging projects in an exciting Fintech industry committed to helping regular investors reach their goals.