About this role:

We are seeking an Engineering Transformation Lead- Quality Engineering Lead to join the Integrated Governance Solutions team. This role requires hands-on technical expertise and is critical in transforming how we deliver resilient, secure, and compliant products by embedding quality into every phase of the product development lifecycle. This role holder will “shift quality left” by driving a culture of quality ownership within engineering, modernizing testing practices, and enabling faster and more reliable product delivery.

You will work across engineering teams to design and implement scalable quality engineering practices. You will lead by example, bringing deep technical expertise and coaching engineers to shift from reactive quality assurance to proactive, in-line validation. You will also play a visible role in cultivating a strong engineering culture, advocating for simplicity, automation, and continuous improvement in how we build and validate our products.

In this role, you will:

• Lead the “shift-left quality” culture

• Promote a “quality is everyone’s responsibility” mindset across engineering and product teams.
• Partner and coach teams to integrate quality activities early, during backlog grooming, design, and build phases, as well as defining testable requirements and shared quality ownership.

• Enable faster, smarter testing

• Replace manual testing bottlenecks with modern, automated approaches that support continuous delivery, as well as introducing reusable, scalable test patterns and frameworks.
• Define shift-left testing checklists and validation models tailored to different control products/workflows.

• Integrate quality into engineering workflows

• Co-create and socialize a robust Definition of Done and Definition of Quality across teams.
• Work with teams and help embed automated tests into engineering workflows, including unit, integration, and end-to-end testing, as well as improving observability and test coverage in production-ready code.

• Champion continuous improvement and learning

• Facilitate retrospectives, quality reviews, and working sessions focused on test effectiveness and reliability.

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of Information Security Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
• 5+ years of experience in Quality Engineering
• 3+ years of experience Engineering with a focus on test automation/shift-left practices
• 3+ years of experience embedding automated tests into modern CI/CD pipelines
• 3+ years of programming and scripting skills in one or more modern languages (e.g., Java, Python, C#).

Desired Qualifications:

• Knowledge of cloud environments (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and how to test in those contexts.
• Hands-on experience working in agile and DevOps teams with a strong delivery cadence.
• Experience influencing without authority and guiding teams toward quality ownership.
• Familiarity with compliance, security, and audit-aligned testing practices is preferred.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, able to work across product, engineering, and controls teams.
• Demonstrated ability to lead without formal authority and enable cultural and behavioral change.
• Experience defining team-level QA metrics and translating them into actionable insights.
• Knowledge of test design, exploratory testing, and testing in regulated environments.

Job Expectations:

• Willingness to work on-site at stated location on the job opening
• This position offers a hybrid work schedule
• This position is not eligible for Visa sponsorship

Pay Range

Reflected is the base pay range offered for this position. Pay may vary depending on factors including but not limited to achievements, skills, experience, or work location. The range listed is just one component of the compensation package offered to candidates.

Posting End Date:

*Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.

We Value Equal Opportunity

Wells Fargo is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected characteristic.

Employees support our focus on building strong customer relationships balanced with a strong risk mitigating and compliance-driven culture which firmly establishes those disciplines as critical to the success of our customers and company. They are accountable for execution of all applicable risk programs (Credit, Market, Financial Crimes, Operational, Regulatory Compliance), which includes effectively following and adhering to applicable Wells Fargo policies and procedures, appropriately fulfilling risk and compliance obligations, timely and effective escalation and remediation of issues, and making sound risk decisions. There is emphasis on proactive monitoring, governance, risk identification and escalation, as well as making sound risk decisions commensurate with the business unit’s risk appetite and all risk and compliance program requirements.

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