AVP Quality Engineering Lead

About the role

Where Ambition Meets Innovation Build a career that matches all your initiative with an impressive dose of innovation. From cutting-edge resources and a collaborative environment to the freedom to make an impact and more, you’ll find the ingredients you need at LPL Financial to shape your success while helping clients pursue their financial goals. Job Overview LPL Financial is seeking an AVP, Quality Engineer to join our Investor Data Technology Team. Reporting to an Application Technical Manager, this role will work closely with Product Owners, Architects, Engineering teams, and Release Management teams to establish and execute a comprehensive quality strategy across cloud-native applications and platforms. This role is ideal for a hands-on Quality Engineering leader with expertise in modern testing practices, automation strategy, and quality governance. The successful candidate will drive quality transformation initiatives, champion shift-left testing practices, and ensure the delivery of highly scalable, secure, and reliable software solutions.

Responsibilities

• Lead Quality Engineering strategy and execution across multiple agile product teams
• Define, implement, and continuously improve enterprise testing standards, frameworks, and best practices
• Drive adoption of test automation across UI, API, data, integration, and end-to-end testing layers
• Partner with Engineering and Architecture teams to embed quality throughout the software development lifecycle
• Establish quality gates and testing standards within CI/CD pipelines
• Develop and maintain scalable automated test frameworks for cloud-native applications
• Lead performance, scalability, resiliency, and non-functional testing initiatives
• Collaborate with DevOps teams to ensure quality is integrated into deployment and release processes
• Define and monitor quality metrics, defect trends, test coverage, release readiness, and operational stability
• Support root cause analysis, production issue validation, and continuous improvement initiatives
• Partner with business stakeholders to ensure testing aligns with business requirements and customer expectations
• Mentor and guide Quality Engineers, fostering a culture of engineering excellence and continuous improvement
• Evaluate and implement emerging Quality Engineering tools, technologies, and methodologies

Requirements

10+ years of experience in Software Quality Assurance, Quality Engineering, or Test Automation

5+ years of experience leading Quality Engineering teams in enterprise-scale environments

Strong experience designing and implementing automated testing frameworks and strategies

Experience testing cloud-native and hybrid-cloud applications deployed on AWS

Hands-on experience with automated testing tools such as Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, Rest Assured, Karate, or equivalent frameworks

Qualifications

Core Competencies:

• Experience designing and leading Python-based test automation frameworks and standards
• Experience with Starling test automation framework leveraging Playwright and TypeScript for UI and end-to-end testing
• Experience applying AI and automation to improve test coverage, accelerate test creation, and increase engineering productivity (e.g., AI-assisted test case generation and intelligent test maintenance)
• Experience validating APIs, microservices, event-driven architectures, and distributed systems
• Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines and integration of automated testing into DevOps workflows
• Experience with SQL and data validation across Oracle, PostgreSQL, or other relational databases
• Expertise in test planning, defect management, test metrics, and release quality governance
• Strong understanding of Agile, Scrum, and modern software delivery methodologies

Leadership Expectations:

• Set QE direction and standards across multiple product teams
• Influence architecture and release decisions through quality metrics and release-readiness criteria
• Build QE capability through hiring, mentoring, and succession planning

Skills

Preferences:

• Experience with AWS services including ECS, EKS, Fargate, S3, RDS/Aurora, DynamoDB, Lambda, and API Gateway
• Experience implementing Quality Engineering practices in large-scale digital transformation programs
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