End - End Testing - ADP, AVP

This role is intended for a hands-on QA leader who can operate as a functional subject matter expert for our Alpha Data Platform (ADP). This candidate will coordinate multi-user concurrency tests, strengthen day-to-day quality support across environments, data, interfaces, deployments, and end-to-end workflows. The ideal candidate will bridge product, engineering, QA, release management, and SaaS operations to make quality issues visible early and drive them to resolution quickly. Key Responsibilities Act as a functional subject matter expert for ADP quality, including core platform workflows, data movement, interface behavior, environment dependencies, and release validation expectations. Translate product, engineering, and operational requirements into practical QA strategies, playbooks, test scenarios, and acceptance criteria. Identify functional and environmental gaps that may prevent reliable release testing, integration testing, or production readiness, and drive timely remediation with the appropriate owners. Plan and coordinate ADP multi-user, concurrency-based testing events where multiple groups execute QA playbooks at the same time against shared release objectives Define the multi-user concurrency testing scope, entry criteria, participant model, environment readiness checklist, playbook assignments, timing, defect triage process and exit criteria. Support QA teams across the organization when they encounter blockers related to system access, data access, environment configuration, interface setup, deployment issues, or workflow validation. Partner with SaaS E2E Operations, engineering, product, and QA to diagnose failures across configuration, data, application behavior, infrastructure, and deployment boundaries. Help define and maintain standard QA playbooks, smoke tests, regression scenarios, workflow tests, data prerequisites, and troubleshooting runbooks for ADP and ADP-adjacent capabilities. Improve the repeatability of QA execution by standardizing environment assumptions, documenting known dependencies, and reducing reliance on informal knowledge. Understand how ADP interacts with cloud-native services, data platforms, interfaces layers, deployment pipelines, and downstream systems in production-like end-to-end environments. Technical Environment / Qualifications Minimum 12+ years experience in Quality Assurance. Extensive QA experience in enterprise software, data platforms, financial technology, SaaS platforms, or similarly complex regulated environments. Demonstrated ability to lead functional QA activities across multiple teams, systems, environments, and release timelines. Experience defining test strategies, test plans, test cases, smoke tests, regression coverage, end-to-end workflow tests, and release readiness criteria. Strong analytical skills with the ability to identify gaps in test coverage, environment readiness, data availability, access setup, interface configuration, and deployment procedures. Hands-on troubleshooting mindset with the confidence to investigate ambiguous failures, gather evidence, isolate probable causes, and drive to rapid resolution. Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to create crisp playbooks, runbooks, defect summaries, and status updates Experience with cloud-native data platforms, data warehousing, Snowflake, ETL pipelines, data marts, APIs, batch process, or financial data workflows Experience with Jira, Xray, defect lifecycle management, and audit-friendly test evidence Experience coordinating testing across product development, engineering, QA, SaaS Operations, and support. 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