Quality Engineering & Automation (AI‑Driven) , Vice President
BlackRock
Gurugram, IndiahybridPosted 1 month ago
Skill Required
AI EngineerEngineeringautomationAISystem DesignJMeterTest AutomationMicroservicesObservabilityCD pipelinesPlaywrightSeleniumTestNGdesignDevOpsCI/CDCloudDesign PatternsandCICDFulltime
Key highlights
- 10+ years of proven experience in Software Quality Assurance in a financial services firm is required.
- B.E. / B.Tech. / MCA degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related subject area is required.
- Comprehensive benefits include a strong retirement plan, tuition reimbursement, comprehensive healthcare, support for working parents, and Flexible Time Off (FTO).
- AI / Agentic AI experience is required for test generation, intelligent test selection, and automated defect triage.
Role overview
The Vice President (VP) – Aladdin Quality Engineering (AQE) will lead quality strategy, automation, and engineering excellence across Aladdin platforms, with a strong focus on ETF, Mutual Funds, and Asset Management workflows spanning Front Office, Middle Office, and Back Office. APG – QA is a globally distributed team supporting Quality Engineering initiatives for Apps on the Aladdin, employing industry-leading tools to support testing activities. The role is responsible for driving automation-first, AI-enabled quality engineering, ensuring scalable, resilient, and audit-ready delivery for mission-critical financial systems, encompassing both leadership and individual contributor responsibilities.
Responsibilities
- Define and execute the AQE strategy aligned with Aladdin and firmwide technology objectives.
- Drive automation-first testing across UI, API, and backend layers using modern frameworks.
- Establish best practices for test suite design, regression optimization, and release confidence.
- Own and evolve test framework architecture, including: UI automation (Selenium, Playwright), API & backend testing (REST, batch workflows), data validation and reconciliation testing.
- Ensure high standards for test coverage, maintainability, performance, and reliability.
- Implement robust error reporting, failure analysis, and test result assurance mechanisms.
- Lead adoption of AI / Agentic AI for: test generation and maintenance, intelligent test selection and orchestration, automated defect triage and RCA.
- Embed AI into the testing lifecycle to improve speed, accuracy, and scalability.
- Enable QA strategies for cloud-native and hybrid environments.
- Drive testing approaches for distributed systems, microservices, and event-driven architectures.
- Partner with Platform, DevOps, and SRE teams to strengthen environment stability and observability.
- Provide strong QA leadership across: Front Office (order management, trading, execution workflows), Middle Office (settlements, confirmations, lifecycle processing), Back Office (accounting, reconciliation, reporting).
- Apply deep exposure to ETFs, Mutual Funds, Asset Management products, and investment operations.
- Ensure QA processes meet regulatory, audit, and risk requirements.
- Act as a senior partner for Product, Engineering, Operations, and Business stakeholders.
- Translate business and regulatory requirements into clear QA strategy and execution plans.
- Lead, mentor, and grow high-performing global QA teams.
- Drive strong governance, communication, and transparency across delivery programs.
- Actively engage in hands-on delivery and execution of complex workstreams, in addition to managing teams and driving strategic outcomes, based on evolving business and project demands.
Requirements
- B.E. / B.Tech. / MCA degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related subject area.
- 10+ years of proven experience in Software Quality Assurance in a financial services firm (e.g., Investment Banking, Asset Management), including writing manual tests (positive and negative), test automation development and execution.
- Good exposure with Testing methodologies, Test plan, Test strategy, RTM and Test estimation etc. with experience in UI testing.
- Strong hands-on and strategic experience in Test Automation (UI, API, Backend).
- Strong hands-on and strategic experience in Selenium and Playwright.
- Strong hands-on and strategic experience in Backend testing and data validation.
- Expertise in test framework design and test suite optimization.
- Solid understanding of cloud platforms and distributed systems.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automated quality gates.
- Experience leveraging AI Agents / Agentic AI in testing or engineering workflows.
- Strong interest in applying AI to test generation, analysis, and decision-making.
- Asset Management / Financial Services background is strongly preferred.
- Deep understanding of ETFs and Mutual Funds.
- Deep understanding of Front, Middle, and Back Office investment workflows.
- Familiarity with financial regulations, controls, and audit expectations.
- Proven stakeholder management and executive communication skills.
- Ability to operate at both strategic and hands-on levels.
- Strong problem-solving mindset with a focus on quality, resilience, and scalability.
- Experience leading large, global, cross-functional teams.
Nice to have
- Experience with Aladdin or similar investment platforms.
- Exposure to performance testing, resiliency testing, and chaos engineering.
- Prior experience driving enterprise-wide QA transformation initiatives.
Benefits
- Strong retirement plan.
- Tuition reimbursement.
- Comprehensive healthcare.
- Support for working parents.
- Flexible Time Off (FTO) so you can relax, recharge and be there for the people you care about.
- Hybrid work model: employees are currently required to work at least 4 days in the office per week, with the flexibility to work from home 1 day per week; some business groups may require more time in the office.
- Networks, benefits and development opportunities to help colleagues thrive.
Additional details
- Role – Vice President AQE.
- APG – QA is a globally distributed team supporting Quality Engineering initiatives for Apps on the Aladdin. The Testing team employs use of industry-leading tools to support the testing activities.
- At BlackRock, AI has long been part of how we work – enhancing decision-making, improving operations, and helping us deliver better outcomes for clients.
- Candidates are encouraged to use AI thoughtfully to learn, prepare, and work more effectively; during the interview process, BlackRock wants to focus on getting to know candidates through their own experiences, thinking, and judgment.
- Guidance is provided on when and how to use AI during the hiring process.
- BlackRock's mission is to help more and more people experience financial well-being.
- Clients and the people they serve are saving for retirement, paying for their children's educations, buying homes and starting businesses; their investments also help to strengthen the global economy.
- To learn more about BlackRock, please visit Careers.BlackRock.com; BlackRock also encourages candidates to get to know them on LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTube, X, and TikTok.
- BlackRock is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. They evaluate qualified applicants without regard to age, disability, family status, gender identity, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation and other protected attributes at law.