Business Testing Governance Leader

Wells Fargo

. Establish and Maintain Testing Standards: Define and continuously evolve comprehensive testing standards across WIM product teams.

Posted 4/22/2026full-timeCharlotte • Arizona, Iowa, North Carolina, Texas, Utah • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $139,000 - $239,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Establish and Maintain Testing Standards: Define and continuously evolve comprehensive testing standards across WIM product teams. Govern exceptions and waivers, ensuring standards adapt based on outcomes, evidence, and emerging risks. Drive adoption of testing tools and best practices across all product teams.
Build a Distributed Testing Governance Model: Own end-to-end accountability for test quality outcomes across all WIM product teams. Design and operate a distributed governance model by appointing Test Quality Leads within each product team as the execution arm of centralized standards. Ensure consistent execution of test planning, coverage validation, non-functional testing, evidence management, regression maintenance, automation prioritization, and post-release defect analysis through these delegated leads.
Gatekeep Release Readiness: Review test plans, results, and evidence to confirm compliance with standards and adequate end-to-end coverage. Require concise testing risk summaries for release tollgates and leadership sign-off. Enforce compliance and pause launches when minimum standards are not met.
Drive Testing Optimization and Automation: Own strategic roadmap to shift testing left and expand automation for faster cycles and in-sprint regression. Build and execute business cases for automation, tooling, test data, and environments. Partner with Product and Technology teams to reduce test cycle time and production incidents. Champion GenAI-enabled solutions to improve test coverage, acceptance criteria quality, and automated testing. Maintain dashboards and metrics on standards adherence, test coverage, defect trends, and residual risk; publish insights to leadership.

Requirements

What you’ll need

7+ years of Business Execution, Implementation, or Strategic Planning experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
Proven record of transforming test processes, improving test quality, optimizing workflows, and leveraging best-in-class test management and automation solutions.
Deep understanding of wealth management products, services, and regulatory landscape.
Strong leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
Demonstrated ability to influence at senior levels and drive cross-functional initiatives.
Experience leading Agile Product and/or Technology Quality teams.
Experience working closely with both Business (Product/UAT) and Technology teams to optimize end-to-end quality processes.
Familiarity with GenAI applications in testing and requirements quality.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health benefits
401(k) Plan
Paid time off
Disability benefits
Life insurance, critical illness insurance, and accident insurance
Parental leave
Critical caregiving leave
Discounts and savings
Commuter benefits
Tuition reimbursement
Scholarships for dependent children
Adoption reimbursement

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Hard Skills & Tools

test qualitytest planningcoverage validationnon-functional testingregression maintenanceautomation prioritizationdefect analysistest management solutionsAgile methodologiesGenAI applications

Soft Skills

leadershipcommunicationstakeholder managementinfluencingcross-functional collaborationstrategic planningprocess optimizationevidence managementrisk assessmentteam accountability