Senior Consultant Specialist

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If you’re looking for a career where you can make a real impression, join HSBC and discover how valued you’ll be.

We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Senior Consultant Specialist.

Business: Asia & Middle East Technology

Job ID: 53883

Principal responsibilities

Quality Strategy & Delivery
●    Define and implement test strategy, test plans, quality gates, and release entry/exit criteria (DoR/DoD).
●    Manage testing scope, priorities, resourcing and timelines; proactively identify risks and drive mitigation actions.
●    Own defect management end-to-end: triage, prioritisation, root cause analysis (RCA), prevention actions, and continuous improvement.
●    Ensure appropriate test coverage across functional, regression, integration and end-to-end testing; coordinate performance/security testing where relevant.

Team Leadership & Capability Building
●    Lead, coach and develop QA engineers; provide clear direction, feedback and performance support.
●    Establish and maintain testing standards: test design, reviews, traceability, test data and environment practices.
●    Support hiring and upskilling (e.g., automation, performance, SDETs) aligned to the team’s roadmap.
Automation & Quality Engineering
●    Build and maintain automated testing across API/UI/Integration layers to reduce manual effort and accelerate delivery.
●    Embed testing into CI/CD pipelines (smoke/regression, reporting, alerts) and promote shift-left practices.
●    Partner with DevOps/platform teams to improve test environment stability, test data strategy, and observability (logs/metrics/traces).

Stakeholder Management & Reporting
●    Collaborate with Product, Engineering, Architecture, Security, Operations and business stakeholders to align quality expectations and acceptance criteria.
●    Provide transparent quality reporting to leadership (risk, defect trends, pass rates, coverage, release readiness) and support informed go/no-go decisions.

Requirements

●    Bachelor’s degree (Computer Science, Software Engineering or related discipline preferred).
●    10+ years in QA/testing/quality engineering, including 2+ years in a Test Lead/QA Lead role.
●    Strong understanding of SDLC/STLC, test design techniques, risk-based testing, and agile delivery.
●    Hands-on experience in UI test automation using Java / Appium / Selenium
●    Solid API testing automation experience (e.g., RestAssured, pytest, Postman/Newman, Karate).
●    CI/CD and test pipeline integration (e.g. Jenkins, GitHub Actions)
●    Experience with defect and delivery tooling (e.g., Jira/Confluence or equivalents).
●    Strong communication and influencing skills across multiple teams/time zones.

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