QA Lead (Commodities Trading)
Computappoint
This is a unique opportunity to join a high-profile transformation programme that will deliver a next-generation, fully integrated trading platform across Front Office, Middle Office, and Finance functions. You'll be responsible for driving programme-wide quality assurance across multiple technology ecosystems, ensuring successful delivery of a business-critical platform that will support global energy trading operations. Working directly with senior programme leadership, business stakeholders, and technology teams, you'll have the authority to define QA standards, govern UAT readiness, and influence key go-live decisions across one of the industry's most ambitious technology programmes.
Job Title: QA Lead
Job Type: Contract
Location: London or Geneva
Working Arrangement: Hybrid
Day Rate: Up to £1000/day (outside IR35)
The Role:
- Own and implement the programme-wide QA strategy across multiple delivery streams and platforms.
- Define and oversee end-to-end testing for business-critical trading, logistics, finance, and reporting processes.
- Ensure complete traceability between UAT acceptance criteria and validated test coverage.
- Lead cross-system integration testing, identifying risks and gaps across interconnected platforms and services.
- Coordinate validation activities for a large portfolio of business reports, ensuring data accuracy and stakeholder sign-off prior to UAT.
- Define UAT entry and exit criteria and provide governance over readiness decisions.
- Act as a trusted advisor to programme leadership, communicating quality status, risks, and recommendations to senior stakeholders and steering committees.
- Drive collaboration across agile and release-based delivery teams, ensuring consistent QA standards across the programme.
Required Experience:
- Significant experience leading quality assurance at programme or portfolio level within large-scale technology transformation programmes.
- Mandatory experience within commodities trading technology environments, with a strong understanding of physical and financial trading operations.
- Deep knowledge of the front-to-back trade lifecycle, including trade capture, risk management, P&L, settlements, accounting, and reporting processes.
- Reporting and data validation tools, including QlikSense, QlikView, PowerBI and Claude.
- Proven success designing and delivering end-to-end test strategies across multiple business-critical systems, teams, and stakeholders.
- Experience defining and governing UAT entry and exit criteria for complex programme deliveries.
- Strong understanding of integration testing, APIs, messaging frameworks, and event-driven architectures.
- Ability to operate effectively across both Agile and traditional release-based delivery models. ]
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the confidence to challenge delivery teams, escalate risks, and influence senior business and technology leaders.
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