Head, Quality Assurance & Testing Centre at Polaris Bank Limited

About the Role

The Head, Quality Assurance & Testing Centre ensures Polaris Bank's software ships reliably, performs under load, and is free of critical defects and security vulnerabilities before reaching production. This role directs four testing disciplines — Functional, Automated, Performance, and Security Testing — through specialist leads and engineers.

Key Responsibilities

Functional Testing Oversight

• Ensure comprehensive functional, regression, and system integration testing across all releases
• Set test case design and defect tracking standards

Automated Testing Oversight

• Direct the build-out and maintenance of test automation frameworks integrated into CI/CD pipelines
• Drive toward the bank's target automation coverage to enable faster, safer release cycles

Performance Testing Oversight

• Ensure systems are validated for performance, scalability, and load capacity before major releases
• Oversee performance monitoring practices that catch degradation before it affects customers

Security Testing Oversight

• Ensure security assessments, vulnerability scanning, and penetration testing are performed on all releases
• Escalate and track remediation of identified vulnerabilities in coordination with security architecture and engineering teams

Core Competencies

• Test strategy and quality leadership across manual, automated, performance, and security testing disciplines
• CI/CD-integrated automation practices
• Working knowledge of application security testing methodology (OWASP)
• Cross-functional coordination with engineering, architecture, and security teams

Familiarity With Tools (used by the function's teams)

JIRA, TestRail, Zephyr; Selenium, Cypress, Appium, TestNG, JUnit, Postman, RestAssured, Jenkins, GitHub Actions; JMeter, LoadRunner, Gatling, BlazeMeter; Burp Suite, OWASP ZAP, Nessus, Snyk, Veracode

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field; ISTQB or equivalent certification an advantage
• Demonstrated track record leading QA/testing functions in a fast-release software environment, ideally banking or fintech