About us @Symphony

We’ve spent the last 10 years building the financial markets largest, most trusted communication network. Over 500 market participants across the buy-side, sell-side, securities servicing, and beyond. Over half a million users from trading desks to operations and custody teams interacting securely and in real-time on Symphony.

But that was only chapter one. We’re now using our technology foundation to accelerate far beyond secure collaboration to become the standard connective layer that enables more efficient and automated workflows across the industry to bring the future to financial markets.

The opportunity and our ambition are huge. But we need passionate, dedicated individuals to get there. At Symphony we work hard and fast. Our unique blend of technology and financial services makes it an environment you won't get elsewhere.

Role Description: 

We are looking for a Quality Engineering Director to join our main engineering site here in Sophia-Antipolis, France. With end-to-end responsibility of quality across the entire Symphony Messaging and Directory product suites, you will lead a team of several managers and their quality engineers, as well as an offshore contractor organisation with automation and manual testers. We are looking for an experienced engineer with a proven track record delivering complicated technical and organisational projects in distributed, international organisations -whether as a software engineering manager or a quality engineering manager.

Responsibilities:

• Lead a distributed multi-cultural organisation with heterogenous profiles ranging from seasoned team managers to graduate engineers, help this organisation grow and evolve to meet the needs of our product teams
• Be a mentor to both managers and individual contributors in the organisation, helping them grow and progress
• Leads the planning and execution of product testing efforts, including the supervision of associated resources (managers, staff and offshore contractor teams) to meet committed delivery dates. 
• Designs and implements customized testing strategies that seamlessly integrate quality engineering principles with the unique requirements of the team’s products.
• Orchestrates the qualification and delivery of software to customer environments. 
• Develops and manages quality assurance processes and metrics to ensure high customer satisfaction. 
• Defines best practices to implement and maintain, build, and support the test automation framework for a complex multi-cloud infrastructure (AWS and GCP) for large enterprise customers. 
• Continuously drives the reduction of automation test debt and aims to maintain low-cost, easily manageable automated pipelines.
• Estimates test efforts, analyzes test results and communicates to the stakeholders. 
• Develops innovative solutions for quality engineering, data analysis and highly generic automation frameworks to promote Quality as a Service 

Qualifications:

• BS/BA degree in computer science, engineering or related discipline. 
• Minimum of 10 years of software engineering experience, with a minimum of 3 years management experience (people, project, quality, ideally several)
• Experience managing offshore contracting teams (vendor management, performance tracking, inter-team relationship building)
• Professional experience in designing, building and supporting test automation frameworks. 
• Knowledge about AWS and GCP or similar cloud computing providers, and security testing best practices. 
• Experience with GitHub or similar source code management tools. 
• Preferably ISTQB Certification or similar, and advanced knowledge about software quality methodologies. 
• Excellent English communication skills, written and spoken

Compensation:

• Competitive salary
• Bonus Plan
• Benefits and Perks vary based on location.

Benefits and Perks:

• Regional specific competitive benefits
• Build your own Benefits (BYOB) perk
• Many other fun and exciting benefits and activities!

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. 

Symphony reserves the right of ownership for all unsolicited resumes submitted for this requisition and is not responsible for any fees associated with unsolicited resumes.