Senior Quality Assurance Lead

Job ID: 31586

Are you passionate about quality, automation, and building the financial crime prevention solutions of tomorrow?

We are looking for a Senior Quality Assurance Lead to join our Transaction Monitoring team at Nordea. In this role, you'll be a key driver in defining and executing our QA strategy, ensuring scalable, and automated testing practices across our agile release trains.

This is a unique opportunity to make a real impact on Nordea's fight against financial crime, shaping the way we deliver high-quality solutions used by our investigators. The work you do is not only essential for Nordea's operations, it also supports the fight against financial crime and contributes to building a safer society. This role offers the opportunity to become a vital part our financial crime prevention, and help us create the financial solutions of tomorrow used by Nordea investigators.

About this opportunity  

You'll join the Transaction Monitoring area within financial Crime Prevention, where we use a third part solution to detect and prevent suspicious activities. Our work ensures data from Nordea's source systems is correctly processed through the platform and that the resulting alerts and outputs are accurate and reliable.

As Senior QA Lead, you'll define and drive the QA strategy, ensuring both functional and non-functional quality standards. You will build scalable QA practices and help strengthen automation, and embed continuous testing practices into our delivery process. You will also ensure strong collaboration across multiple agile teams and vendors, data consistency across environments, and continuous improvements. 

The team is located in the Nordic countries and this position is open in Stockholm, Sweden, Helsinki, Finland, and Gdynia, Gdansk and Warszawa, Poland.

What you'll be doing:

• Plan and run QA and test management for both functional and non-functional testing, in concurrence with multiple and versatile scrum teams in a SAFe agile release train setup
• Secure test enablers such as test environments, and test data management
• Secure the test scheduling in alignment with release- and deployment plans
• Secure that the test evidence to changes is provided before going live decisions
• Identify impediments, risks and challenges corresponding to QA and test management, and derive solutions to enable efficient QA and test progress
• Hands on experience with automation
• Proactively follow up, communicate and report the test status to key IT and business stakeholders in regards to QA risk status, testing progress, and improvement activities
• Track and Report on key QA metrics to drive transparency and continuous improvement.
• Actively spearheading test automation (design, development, maintenance and operations)
• Hands on with automation and integration of QA into CI/CD pipelines and enable automation
• Proactively advocate QA and test. Ensure continuous learning of team members and stakeholders in the agile release trains and Nordea test standards
• Coach and guide QA engineers, strengthening quality practices across teams

Who you are 

Collaboration. Ownership. Passion. Courage. These are the four key values that guide us in being at our best. We imagine that you enjoy learning and are excited about bringing your ideas to the table. You're dependable, willing to speak up – even when it's difficult – and committed to empowering others.

You're an experienced QA leader with a strategic mindset and hands-on approach. You thrive in collaborative environment, inspire others to raise the bar, and are motivated by contributing to work that truly makes a difference.

To succeed in this role, we believe that you have:

• Professional experience for more than 5 years in a Quality Assurance leadership role for various size of teams, where you continuously worked with coaching, personal and team development, as well as an innovative approach to challenges  
• Professional experience from working with test management tools, as well as experience in managing functional- and non-functional testing, E2E-testing, test automation, test environment and test data management
• Vast professional experience from planning and follow-ups for system tests, system integration tests, and user acceptance tests, and how to report these via dashboards and presentations
• Strong understanding of ETL/Data validation and system integration preferably within complex, data-intensive systems
• Several documented projects where you have been the key leader during the entire project, preferably in a test automation environment. Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills

It would be ideal if you also:

• Have professional experience from working cloud solutions, DevOps and automated CI/CD pipelines
• Are familiar with SymphonyAI NetReveal and Quantexa or similar transaction monitoring systems

If this sounds like you, get in touch

Next steps

We kindly ask you to submit your application as soon as possible, but no later than 09/12/2025. Any applications or CVs sent by email, direct messages, or any other channel than our application forms, will not be accepted or considered.

At Nordea, we know that an inclusive workplace is a sustainable workplace. We deeply believe that our diverse backgrounds, experiences, characteristics, and traits make us better at serving our customers and communities. If you have any questions about our recruitment process, please reach out to hiring people leader Asad Javed, , or our tech recruiter and main point of contact 

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