Head of Quality Assurance & Tooling

At Iress, we make things happen

We believe technology should help people perform better every day. Since our beginning in 1993, people across financial services have trusted us to take their performance to the next level. More than 10,000 businesses and 500,000 people use our software, from the world’s most iconic financial services brands to advice firms of all sizes, banks, insurers, investment managers, traders and brokers. Iress is one of Australia’s largest technology companies and employs more than 1,100 people across Australia, The United Kingdom, Africa, Canada, New Zealand and Asia.

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We’re now looking for a Head of Quality Assurance & Tooling to play a critical leadership role within our Global Trading and Market Data (GTMD) Platform and Architecture function.

This is a senior leadership opportunity to drive reliability, quality, automation and operational excellence across mission-critical global platforms.

Some of the amazing things you’ll be involved in

• Setting and executing the GTMD-wide strategy for Quality Assurance, Tooling and Site Reliability Engineering

• Elevating reliability, scalability and performance across distributed, mission-critical environments

• Embedding modern quality engineering practices including automation-first testing, contract testing and defect prevention

• Designing performance and load testing strategies for high-throughput, low-latency systems

• Driving automation and reducing manual effort through modern CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure-as-Code

• Leading operational excellence across production, including monitoring, incident response and continuous improvement

• Partnering with Product, Engineering, Architecture and Delivery leaders to improve ways of working at scale

• Uplifting engineering standards, production readiness and release quality across global teams

• Providing senior leadership during major incidents and supporting escalation when required

• Identifying and implementing forward-looking improvements aligned to evolving technology trends, including AI-enabled tooling

What you will bring

• Proven experience leading and transforming Quality Assurance strategy within complex engineering environments

• Deep expertise in modern test automation frameworks (e.g. Playwright, Cypress, K6, Selenium)

• Strong knowledge of contract testing (Pact), test data management and ephemeral environment strategies

• Experience operating mission-critical systems across cloud and hybrid environments

• Strong understanding of AWS, Kubernetes, ECS, Kafka, Elasticache and modern cloud-native architectures

• Experience with CI/CD tooling (Buildkite, Jenkins, TeamCity, GitHub Actions) and Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, CloudFormation)

• Strong engineering capability across languages such as Python, C#, Bash or Kotlin

• Experience with observability platforms spanning metrics, logs and distributed tracing

• Strong networking, database and enterprise platform knowledge (e.g. Postgres, SQL Server, Windows environments)

• A security-first mindset embedded across architecture and delivery pipelines

• The ability to influence and collaborate across global technical and non-technical stakeholders

• A customer-focused, outcome-driven approach with strong decision-making capability

Why work with us?

• 8 additional paid days per year to extend your weekends

• Hybrid working

• Generous cash bonus for every successful referral

• Starting school leave - 8.5 days of leave to assist your children with the transition to school

• Up to 26 weeks’ paid parental leave for primary carers (up to 4 weeks for secondary carers), and the ability to work part-time when returning to work

• 3 days’ paid leave per year to participate in charity initiatives

• Discounted health insurance premiums

• Access to learning and development programs through LinkedIn Learning

Iress is committed to fostering a welcoming and inclusive culture. We strongly believe that diversity is what makes our teams and our products succeed. Our people have different experiences, skills, perspectives and beliefs and everyone’s uniqueness is valued and celebrated.

Our hiring decisions are never based on sexual orientation, race, gender identity, religion, disability, citizenship, marital or family status and age. Even if you feel you don’t meet all of the requirements of the role, we would still like to hear from you!

We’re also proud to be globally recognised as a WORK180 Endorsed Employer that promotes and supports all women in the workplace.

For more information about what we do, our people and values, please visit our website - https://www.iress.com/join-us/careers/

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