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Citi

Director, Test Engineering Lead – Wholesale Credit Risk Technology

Citi

. Own and drive the quality engineering strategy for Citi's Helios wholesale credit risk platform .

Posted 9/21/2026full-timeUnited StatesSenior💰 $170,000 - $300,000 per yearWebsite

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Demonstrates extensive expertise in quality engineering strategy, test automation, and team leadership across global, multi-regional environments. Proficient in managing quality KPIs, driving automation transformations, and engaging with stakeholders in the financial services sector.

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Quality Engineering StrategyTest Automation TransformationCucumber/GherkinGenAI ToolingFinancial Services Experience

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Hard Skills
Test AutomationSoftware TestingRegression AutomationDefect ManagementRoot-Cause AnalysisAPI TestingUI TestingIntegration TestingE2E TestingPerformance Metrics
Soft Skills
Change LeadershipExecutive CommunicationStakeholder ManagementTeam LeadershipMulticultural Team Management
Tools & Technologies
CucumberPlaywrightSeleniumZephyrOctaneFAST InfrastructureCI/CDGenAI Testing SolutionsTest Management ToolsAutomation Frameworks
Certifications & Qualifications
Test Automation CertificationAgile/Scrum Leadership CertificationAI/ML Fundamentals Certification
Industry Keywords
Financial ServicesCapital MarketsCredit Risk TechnologyRegulated BankingTCoE Experience

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
CloudSDLCSeleniumTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Own and drive the quality engineering strategy for Citi's Helios wholesale credit risk platform
  • Lead and grow a global, cross-regional team of SDETs, automation engineers, manual testers, and test leads across NAM, EMEA, and APAC
  • Define career paths, performance goals, and skills-uplift programs
  • Own headcount planning, budget management, and vendor/contractor transition
  • Serve as senior QE voice in governance forums, steering committees, and senior technology reviews
  • Own the end-to-end test automation roadmap across API, UI, integration, and E2E suites on Citi's FAST infrastructure
  • Drive regression automation toward 90%+ coverage and reduce manual testing backlog and regression cycle times
  • Establish test data management, environment stability, and production-representative data strategies
  • Oversee migration of test management and reporting tools, including Zephyr to Octane
  • Drive GenAI adoption for test generation, code/test review, agentic testing, and defect triage
  • Define governance and quality guardrails for AI-generated test artifacts
  • Pilot and scale GenAI testing solutions to improve speed, quality, and cost
  • Own quality KPIs, reporting cadence, traceability, and PRB-to-test-case mapping
  • Present testing health, risk, and roadmap progress to senior technology, business, and risk/control stakeholders
  • Partner with Development, SRE, Product, Business Analysis, Architecture, and Engineering teams to embed quality earlier in the SDLC
  • Lead the transition to a target operating model where development owns integration testing and QE focuses on E2E, governance, tooling, and automation excellence

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • 15+ years of relevant experience
  • 12+ years of progressive experience in software testing, test automation, and software development, including significant hands-on technical experience
  • 10+ years leading global, multi-region testing/QE teams, including direct employees and vendor/contractor resources
  • 10+ years driving large-scale test automation transformations
  • Hands-on experience with Cucumber/Gherkin, Playwright with TypeScript, and Selenium
  • Experience with Zephyr, Octane, or equivalent enterprise test management tooling
  • Experience with CI/CD and large-scale test execution infrastructure such as FAST
  • Direct experience piloting or scaling GenAI/AI-based tooling in software development or testing
  • Financial services, capital markets, or credit risk technology experience strongly preferred
  • Experience with defect/problem management, root-cause analysis, defect taxonomy, and linking production incidents/problems to test coverage
  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related technical discipline required
  • Ability to engage credibly with engineers on architecture, code, automation frameworks, and AI tooling
  • Proven change leadership and experience driving transformation against resistance and budget constraints
  • Experience owning and presenting quality metrics/KPIs
  • Experience managing distributed, multicultural teams across NAM/EMEA/APAC
  • Ability to manage multiple concurrent workstreams
  • Strong executive communication and stakeholder management skills
  • Preferred: regulated banking/financial institution technology experience, cloud-native test environments, TCoE experience, and certifications in test automation, Agile/Scrum leadership, or AI/ML fundamentals

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Medical, dental & vision coverage
  • 401(k)
  • Life, accident, and disability insurance
  • Wellness programs
  • Paid vacation/planned time off
  • Paid sick leave/unplanned time off
  • Paid holidays
  • Discretionary and formulaic incentive and retention awards may be available for eligible employees