Quality Assurance - Lead

Do you want your voice heard and your actions to count? Discover your opportunity with Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), one of the world’s leading financial groups. Across the globe, we’re 150,000 colleagues, striving to make a difference for every client, organization, and community we serve. We stand for our values, building long-term relationships, serving society, and fostering shared and sustainable growth for a better world. With a vision to be the world’s most trusted financial group, it’s part of our culture to put people first, listen to new and diverse ideas and collaborate toward greater innovation, speed and agility. This means investing in talent, technologies, and tools that empower you to own your career. Join MUFG, where being inspired is expected and making a meaningful impact is rewarded. Position Details: The Test Lead – AVP/Manager will lead end-to-end quality validation for complex applications, ensuring complete test coverage, backend data validation, traceability, and audit-ready deliverables in support of regulatory and control requirements. This role supports both SIT and UAT and works closely with developers, business stakeholders, and test teams to validate system integrations, manage defects, and strengthen quality outcomes in a regulated banking environment. Strongly preferred candidate is a QE SME with domain experience in AML, sanctions compliance, credit risk, and financial operations / general ledger processes. Candidate should also pose deep knowledge and experience in QE tooling including automation and AI experience Lead the design and execution of automated testing using Playwright, with a focus on improving speed, coverage, and reliability. Drive adoption of AI-assisted (agentic) testing practices to reduce manual effort and improve test quality. Work closely with development teams to ensure testing is embedded in the delivery lifecycle, supporting fast and stable releases. Act as a hands-on leader, building automation frameworks while guiding the team on modern testing practices Roles and Responsibilities Review requirements and design documents to define risk-based SIT/UAT test coverage. Design, execute, and document test cases with full traceability to requirements, defects, and results. Validate backend processing, integrations, data flows, and SQL-based reconciliations across critical systems. Lead defect triage, root cause analysis, resolution tracking, and retesting. Provide SIT/UAT status reporting, risk escalation, and audit-ready testing deliverables. Design and implement Playwright-based automation frameworks for UI, API, and end-to-end testing. Lead the development of agentic testing workflows, including:Generating test cases from requirements using AI Automating test script creation using tools like Copilot Using AI to analyze failures, logs, and test outputs Build and maintain a scalable test harness, including reusable components, fixtures, and test data setup.