BlackRock is hiring a Quality Engineering & Automation leader to own the quality strategy for its mission-critical Aladdin platform. You will define an automation-first, AI-enabled approach to ensure scalable, resilient, and audit-ready delivery for ETF, Mutual Fund, and asset management workflows across Front, Middle, and Back Office.
What You'll Do
- Define and execute the quality engineering strategy, aligned with firm-wide technology objectives.
- Drive automation-first testing across UI, API, and backend layers using modern frameworks.
- Establish best practices for test suite design, regression optimization, and release confidence.
- Own and evolve test framework architecture, including UI automation, API & backend testing, and data validation.
- Ensure high standards for test coverage, maintainability, performance, and reliability.
- Implement robust error reporting, failure analysis, and test result assurance mechanisms.
- Lead adoption of AI and Agentic AI for test generation, intelligent test orchestration, and automated defect triage.
- Embed AI into the testing lifecycle to improve speed, accuracy, and scalability.
- Enable quality assurance strategies for cloud native and hybrid environments.
- Drive testing approaches for distributed systems, microservices, and event-driven architectures.
- Partner with Platform, DevOps, and SRE teams to strengthen environment stability and observability.
- Provide strong QA leadership across Front, Middle, and Back Office investment workflows.
- Ensure QA processes meet regulatory, audit, and risk requirements.
- Act as a senior partner for Product, Engineering, Operations, and Business stakeholders.
- Translate business and regulatory requirements into clear QA strategy and execution plans.
- Lead, mentor, and grow high-performing global QA teams.
- Drive strong governance, communication, and transparency across delivery programs.
What We're Looking For
- A B.E., B.Tech., or MCA degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- 10+ years of proven Software Quality Assurance experience within a financial services firm, including manual testing and test automation development.
- Exposure to testing methodologies, test planning, test strategy, and UI testing.
- Strong hands-on and strategic experience in Test Automation for UI, API, and backend systems.
- Expertise in test framework design and test suite optimization.
- Solid understanding of cloud platforms and distributed systems.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automated quality gates.
- Experience leveraging AI Agents or Agentic AI in testing or engineering workflows.
- A strong interest in applying AI to test generation, analysis, and decision-making.
- Asset Management or Financial Services background.
- Deep understanding of ETFs, Mutual Funds, and Front, Middle, and Back Office investment workflows.
- Familiarity with financial regulations, controls, and audit expectations.
- Proven stakeholder management and executive communication skills.
- The ability to operate at both strategic and hands-on levels.
Technical Stack
- Selenium, Playwright, REST, Cloud platforms
Team & Environment
You will lead and mentor globally distributed QA teams.
