QA test Manager with Solid Banking and IOS/ Android -100% Remote

About the role

We are seeking a senior hands-on QA/Test Automation Lead or QA Manager who still codes and builds automation. The ideal candidate will own ambiguous problems without predefined test cases, demonstrating strong product ownership, curiosity, and a customer-centric mindset. While banking experience is valuable, the domain can be learned through strong partnership with Product Owners.

Responsibilities

• Spend initial weeks learning the application, stakeholders, architecture, expected user flows, and current testing gaps.
• Assess the current state and recommend the automation approach, tools, priority use cases, and roadmap.
• Present the roadmap to stakeholders, incorporate feedback, and secure alignment.
• Design and code automated mobile and web test cases, building a repeatable regression test suite for Nimbus releases.
• Run and maintain the suite as Nimbus introduces new code, features, and fixes, identifying failures before Product Owners perform extensive manual testing.
• Partner with Product Owners to understand expected functionality and customer behavior, and with the architect for application architecture, data, and flow context.
• Communicate defects and findings clearly, interacting with Nimbus when necessary.
• Keep the regression suite current as new features are added.
• Explore automating defect creation into Nimbus JIRA, potentially leveraging the existing two-way JIRA sync (nice to have).

Main Objectives

• Remove the manual QA burden currently falling on Thrivent Bank Product Owners.
• Establish a practical test strategy and automation roadmap that delivers value quickly.
• Build a reliable automated regression suite for Nimbus mobile/web digital banking and onboarding functionality.
• Detect regression defects and functional issues quickly whenever Nimbus drops code into stage.
• Improve release confidence and reduce the testing/triage cycle affecting the bank's growth objectives.
• Stretch objective: automate the handoff or creation of identified defects into Nimbus via JIRA.

Requirements

• Senior-level QA/test automation experience with the ability to work independently and with limited supervision.
• Strong test strategy skills; must determine what should be tested, prioritize use cases, and create the roadmap without predefined test cases.
• Hands-on automation engineering; must personally code and build the test suite, not simply lead or manage QA resources.
• Strong Selenium knowledge (leading tool preference); experience with comparable mobile/web automation platforms such as Perfecto or BrowserStack is relevant.
• Mobile and web application testing experience.
• Strong problem-solving, ownership, and self-direction; ability to "figure stuff out" and treat product quality as personal responsibility.
• Strong communication and stakeholder skills across engineering, architecture, product, and potentially Nimbus.
• Customer-centric testing mindset; test cases should reflect real customer behavior and unexpected usage patterns, not just scripted happy paths.
• Ability to ramp into digital banking and digital onboarding domain knowledge; prior banking/financial services experience is a strong plus.
• Experience with JIRA integration/automation, CI/CD, automated regression execution, and establishing QA automation from the ground up.
• Background as a hands-on QA/Test Manager or Test Automation Lead who combines strategy with execution.

Duration: 12–18 months
Location: 100% remote