Vice President, Quality Assurance Lead

Morgan Stanley is a leading global financial services firm providing investment banking, securities, investment, and wealth management services. The Firm's employees serve clients worldwide, including corporations, governments, and individuals from more than 1,200 offices in 43 countries. In Technology, we leverage innovation to build the connections and capabilities that power our Firm, enabling our clients and colleagues to redefine markets and shape the future of our communities.

About the role

Morgan Stanley Services Group Inc. is seeking a Vice President, Quality Assurance Lead in New York, New York. This role involves working on all software testing phases, including functional and feature-aligned sprint testing, integration, regression, end-to-end, and post-production testing. Telecommuting is permitted up to 2 days per week.

Responsibilities

• Perform periodic reviews of budgeted forecasted spend to ensure work remains within outlined budget.
• Review software requirement specifications, identify gaps, and determine testability and testing implications.
• Work closely with data scientists and analysts to create and deploy new product features.
• Collaborate with Test Manager and other Test Analysts to plan and execute software testing tasks.
• Log software defects in a defect tracking system and follow defects through the software development lifecycle from creation to resolution.
• Perform periodic quality assurance oversight of test reports to ensure appropriate severities and priorities are assigned to defects.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in Applied Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field of study.
• Three (3) years of experience as an Associate Director, Associate Consultant, or a related role in the technology field.
• Three (3) years of experience with the following:
  • Working with multiple vendors and internal stakeholders.
  • Strategizing software automation architecture framework and implementation.
  • Banking payment and transfers, including ACH, WIRES, and Zelle.
  • Lending and Mortgage banking.
  • Mobile app banking.
  • Selenium, JMeter, Unix, PERL, and Python Scripting.
  • Sybase to Teradata data warehouse migration testing.
  • Using REST and SOAP APIs with JMeter and RestAssured.
  • Agile Requirement Design (ARD).
  • Defining and measuring quality assurance effectiveness using metrics including test coverage, defect leakage, and key performance indicators.
• Two (2) years of experience with the following:
  • Advisory platform banking.
  • Chatbot testing tools.

About Morgan Stanley

At Morgan Stanley, we raise, manage, and allocate capital for our clients—helping them reach their goals. Our values—putting clients first, doing the right thing, leading with exceptional ideas, committing to diversity and inclusion, and giving back—guide our decisions daily. We support and empower our employees and their families through comprehensive benefits and perks, fostering a culture of inclusion where individuals are hired, developed, and advanced based on skills and talents.

Pay

Expected base pay rates for this role will be between $206,000 and $210,000 per year at the commencement of employment. Base pay is determined on an individualized basis and is part of a total compensation package that may include commission earnings, incentive compensation, discretionary bonuses, and other short- and long-term incentive packages.