**FX Trade Services Quality Engineering Lead – VP (Hybrid)** **About Citi** As the world’s most global bank, Citi gives you the tools to be a trailblazer. We’re not just building technology; we’re building the future of banking. With thousands of employees located around the globe, we are an international team encompassing a broad range of teams, roles, and cultures, and we invite you to come and join us! Citi’s technology team supports business operations in 100+ countries, across multiple lines of business spanning both Institutional and retail businesses. The group works to optimize the IT environment by standardizing production platforms, reducing complexity, and introducing innovative solutions that provide new business capabilities, reduce total cost of ownership, and create a competitive advantage for Citi. **About FX Tech** Citi FX has a physical presence in 83 countries with 1,400 dedicated staff giving us the largest FX presence of any bank globally. Foreign Exchange has been one of the defining businesses of Citi for much of its 200-year existence. Citi has the largest FX presence of any bank globally and we proudly put this down to delivering unrivalled service and insight to our clients. Increasing investment in technology has seen us roll out award winning applications. Technology is a central pillar for our plans to sustain and grow our FX business. Above all, we seek individuals who seek exceptional attitude and aptitude in the people they work with and have a demonstrated passion for delivering FX technology in support of our #1 FX business. **Role Overview/What will you do:** The FX trade services technology team are responsible for building and maintaining the global FX trade management platform. The Quality Engineering Lead will be responsible for test strategy and execution within the FX Trade Services technology team. + **Ensure comprehensive end-to-end test coverage** across the FX trade services platform – covering multiple front ends, multiple trade capture and processing flows, and downstream integration points (real-time feeds to systems such as risk and settlement and end of day feeds to systems such as finance and product control). + **Align testing strategy with FX technology and Citi objectives** in collaboration with the head of quality engineering for FX technology. + **Collaborate closely with the development and dev ops teams** to design and implement automated testing frameworks and embed quality processes into the development lifecycle. + **Supervise non-functional (performance and resilience) testing** , working with the development teams to improve coverage and execution. + **Review and Improve unit test coverage** and standards by working with the development teams to identify gaps and ensure the codebase is thoroughly tested at the unit level. + **Evaluate and adopt appropriate tools and technologies** to enhance testing efficiency and effectiveness across the team. + **Lead, mentor, and manage the QA team** , overseeing test planning and execution to uphold high quality standards and timely delivery of releases. **Experience Required:** + **Experience** 10+ years + **Extensive experience in software quality engineering** with a proven track record of implementing test frameworks, test processes, and driving quality improvements + **Deep understanding of software testing methodologies** tools, and processes – encompassing both manual testing and test automation practices. + **Hands-on expertise** with test automation frameworks and tools ( **such as Selenium for web UI testing, and similar frameworks** ) and experience building automated test suites for APIs and backend services. + **Familiarity with modern development practices i** ncluding **Agile methodologies and CI/CD pipelines; ability to integrate automated tests into continuous integration workflows and proficiency with relevant tools (e.g. Gradle, Git) and scripting languages.** + **Strong finance domain expertise** to understand and test complex, mission-critical financial applications. Experience with trade management platforms (FX or other asset classes) is a strong plus. **Soft Skills:** + **Communication Excellence:** An exceptional communicator with a passion for working with people, possessing the confidence to communicate effectively at all levels, from individual teams to the entire enterprise. + **Negotiation and Matrix Management:** Ability to influence and matrix manage resources not under your direct control. + **Collaboration:** A collaborative mindset with the ability to build strong working relationships with diverse teams and stakeholders. **Education:** + Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering or another numerate subject. This job description provides a high-level review of the types of work performed. 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