VP leading quality engineering, DevOps, and release management for Bankjoy’s digital banking platform. Building automation-first practices, release gates, and reliable infrastructure for regulated financial institutions.
Responsibilities
Lead Release Management, QA, and DevOps, owning delivery quality, release discipline, and platform reliability
Maintain a dotted-line relationship with manual QA engineers and set organization-wide quality standards and processes
Provide hands-on technical leadership in solution design, architecture decisions, incident response, and troubleshooting
Partner with the VP of Engineering on AI coding adoption, architectural standards, and release coordination
Design and implement an engineering quality framework covering testing and release readiness
Own a multi-platform automation framework for Angular, Swift, and Kotlin
Define and enforce quality gates and go/no-go release criteria
Develop and coach the QA organization toward automation-first quality engineering
Establish test data management, environment parity, and CI/CD quality integration
Build quality dashboards for engineering and leadership
Implement structured release gate processes and formal readiness reviews
Work with Technical Support to connect production issues with engineering prioritization
Own post-release retrospectives and drive systemic process changes
Enforce scope freeze discipline and QA involvement in sprint planning and story grooming
Lead DevOps strategy for CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, monitoring, alerting, and platform reliability
Drive observability and oversee Site Reliability Engineering practices
Ensure infrastructure and deployment practices meet security, compliance, and uptime standards
Champion AI-assisted coding and testing adoption across engineering teams
Requirements
10+ years of engineering experience
At least 4 years in engineering leadership managing QA, DevOps, or platform reliability teams
Deep quality engineering background with personally built or rebuilt automation frameworks
Experience migrating automation frameworks in web and native mobile environments, including iOS and Android
Success shifting manual-heavy QA to automation-first practices in fintech, banking, or a regulated environment
Experience implementing release gates and enforcing go/no-go decisions
Hands-on experience with Playwright, Cypress, Appium, Maestro, or equivalent
Familiarity with Angular, Swift, and Kotlin environments is a strong advantage
Strong DevOps and platform reliability background, including CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, monitoring, and observability
AWS experience preferred
Experience driving AI coding and testing tool adoption across engineering teams
Technical depth in solution design, architecture, production incident response, and root-cause analysis
Cross-functional experience with technical support, release management, and product
Excellent communication and organizational influence
Experience in fintech, core banking, or digital banking platforms is a plus
Familiarity with credit union or community bank environments is a plus
Experience with SOC 2 Type II, PCI DSS, or similar compliance contexts is a plus
Experience managing QA transitions from manual QA to quality engineering is a plus
Experience building or managing an SRE function is a plus
Must work remotely from the country in which hired
Ability to work standard business hours aligned with Eastern Time
Benefits
Competitive compensation
Stock options at a well-funded startup
100% of extended medical, dental, and vision premiums for you and your family under the comprehensive Canada plan
Retirement plan with 4% company matching
8 weeks paid parental leave for birthing parents
4 weeks paid parental leave for non-birthing parents
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