Associate Director, Data and Analytics

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We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of  Associate Director, Data and Analytics.

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Principal responsibilities

Test Leadership:

• Lead as a hands-on Test Lead, owning overall test strategy, planning, and execution across one or more delivery teams.
• Mentor QA engineers and SDETs, driving best practices in test design, test automation, and defect management.
• Establish quality standards, test governance, and release quality gates across the SDLC.

Quality Engineering and Delivery:

• Partner with business and technical stakeholders to translate requirements into test scenarios, acceptance criteria, and risk-based test plans.
• Own end-to-end testing for new initiatives and major releases, from test approach definition to production sign-off.
• Ensure high product quality through functional, integration, regression, and non-functional testing.

Test Architecture and Implementation:

• Design and implement scalable test automation frameworks for API, UI, and service integration testing.
• Define and maintain test data, test environments, and traceability from requirements to test evidence.
• Drive shift-left quality practices, including static checks, early test design, and continuous feedback loops.

DevOps and Tooling:

• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines to support rapid and reliable releases.
• Use cloud and container-based test environments to improve test consistency, scalability, and speed.
• Track and report quality metrics such as test coverage, defect leakage, flaky test rate, and release readiness.

Collaboration and Communication:

• Work closely with product managers, developers, operations, and security teams to ensure quality objectives are met.
• Communicate quality status, key risks, and mitigation plans clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Lead defect triage, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Requirements

Testing and Technical Expertise:

• At least 8 years of hands-on experience in software testing/quality engineering.
• Strong experience in 5 or more of the following areas:
• Test strategy and test planning
• API testing and automation (e.g., REST-assured, Postman/Newman)
• UI automation (e.g., Selenium, Cypress, Playwright)
• Performance testing (e.g., JMeter, Gatling)
• CI/CD and test pipeline integration (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions)
• SQL/NoSQL data validation
• Cloud-based testing (e.g., AWS)
• Containerized testing environments (e.g., Kubernetes, Docker)

Leadership Skills:

• Proven experience leading QA teams across multiple squads/projects.
• Ability to coach junior and mid-level testers, and drive quality ownership across engineering teams.
• Strong stakeholder management with the ability to balance quality, timeline, and delivery goals.

Product and Delivery Ownership:

• Strong ownership mindset with ability to align testing priorities to business impact and customer experience.
• Experience building test approach for greenfield initiatives and complex enterprise systems.
• Track record of improving release confidence and reducing production defects.

Problem-Solving and Communication:

• Strong analytical thinking and structured problem-solving in ambiguous situations.
• Excellent communication and reporting skills, with ability to present quality insights and risks to leadership.
• Practical experience in defect prevention, RCA, and process improvement.

You’ll achieve more when you join HSBC.

HSBC is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a culture where all employees are valued, respected and opinions count. We take pride in providing a workplace that fosters continuous professional development, flexible working and, opportunities to grow within an inclusive and diverse environment. We encourage applications from all suitably qualified persons irrespective of, but not limited to, their gender or genetic information, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion, social status, medical care leave requirements, political affiliation, people with disabilities, color, national origin, veteran status, etc., We consider all applications based on merit and suitability to the role.

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