Quality Engineering Team Lead
Herzliya, IL
Finonex, is a well-established and stable trading-platform company.
We are looking for a QA Team Leader to lead quality across the entire R&D organization.
We are looking for a customer-focused quality leader who owns end-to-end quality, drives release excellence, and influences how quality is built into our products.
You will work cross-functionally with R&D, Product, and DevOps, ensuring that quality reflects real user experience and business impact.
Own Quality End-to-End
· Lead all QA activities across teams (integration, E2E, regression, release validation)
· Ensure quality reflects user journeys and production behavior
· Define and enforce quality standards, practices, and acceptance criteria
Drive Quality and Release Excellence
· Own and Lead QA oversight across the company's release process
· Provides input & clarity about release readiness, validation flows, and sign-off
· Manage and mentor the QA Team
· Build a strong, collaborative, and quality-driven culture
· Partner with Product, Engineering, DevOps, and leadership
· Communicate quality risks, trade-offs, and priorities clearly
· Represent the voice of the customer in quality decisions
Shape the Future of QA (AI-Oriented)
· Drive adoption of AI-agentic approaches in QA
· Introduce AI-assisted test generation, analysis, and reporting
· Improve efficiency and insight through smart automation and data
· 3+ years of managerial experience
· Proven experience as QA Lead / QA Team Lead / Head of QA / Quality Engineering Lead
· Experience working across multiple teams and complex systems
· Strong understanding of release processes and delivery cycles
· Experience building or improving QA processes at scale
Technical Understanding (Hands-on not required)
· Solid understanding of automation frameworks and testing strategies
· Experience with CI/CD, test environments, and quality gates
· Understanding of API, integration, and E2E testing
· Familiarity with modern architectures (microservices, cloud, containers)
· Proven track record of adopting, embedding and leveraging AI in the Quality domain
Mindset
· Customer & business focused
· Strong ownership and accountability
· Pragmatic and execution-driven
· Challenges teams and drives change
· Proficiency in Hebrew and English
· Experience with Python / TypeScript-based test frameworks
· Familiarity with tools like Playwright or similar
· Experience with Kubernetes / Docker / CI pipelines
· Exposure to AI-driven testing or agent-based automation
· Background in fintech / complex systems / high-scale environments