IDB Invest - IT QA Practice Consultant

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About this position

We are looking for an experienced, strategic, and collaborative IT QA Practice consultant. As IT QA Practice consultant, you will establish and operationalize the enterprise QA governance practice by implementing quality standards, governance frameworks, reusable methodologies, and oversight mechanisms that support successful SaaS implementations and technology-enabled business initiatives.

You will work in the Information Technology and Analytics (ITA) Department. This team is responsible for leading IDB Invest's technology modernization agenda by delivering enterprise technology solutions, strengthening digital capabilities, and supporting the organization's strategic business objectives.

What you’ll do

• Lead the design, mobilization, operationalization, and continuous improvement of the centralized QA governance practice.

• Assess QA maturity across SaaS initiatives and evaluate the existing QA Framework and operational manual, identifying execution gaps and recommending actionable improvements.

• Define the QA operating model, including roles, decision rights, governance forums, escalation paths, and engagement with project teams, vendors, system integrators, consultants, and business stakeholders.

• Develop and maintain enterprise QA standards, methods, templates, checklists, and reusable assets covering functional, non-functional, performance, security, compliance, data, integration/API, UAT, monitoring, and automated testing.

• Establish a portfolio-level QA roadmap aligned with the IT Roadmap, addressing priorities, shared assets, risks, dependencies, and sequencing across transformation initiatives.

• Define and enforce quality gates for test, integration, data migration, security, compliance, UAT, operational, production-support, and go-live readiness.

• Establish defect management, requirements traceability, test evidence, auditability, and reporting standards, and provide oversight of project QA strategies, plans, execution artifacts, and readiness packs.

• Coach project QA Engineers and consultants, promote adoption of centralized practices, and build shared accountability among IT, business stakeholders, and delivery partners.

• Define QA metrics, KPIs, dashboards, and leadership reporting to provide accurate, actionable, and evidence-based visibility into quality, risks, and release readiness.

• Provide independent go-live quality assessments, residual-risk recommendations, and continuous improvement through lessons learned, recurring-issue analysis, and updates to QA standards and reusable assets.

What you'll need

• Education: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related technical field.

• Experience: You have at least 2 years of relevant experience in quality assurance, software testing, quality engineering, or technology delivery, including implementing QA frameworks and governance models, coordinating testing activities across cross-functional teams and external vendors, executing functional, regression, performance, API, data migration, and security-related testing, supporting UAT and test automation, developing QA metrics and dashboards for project governance and leadership reporting, and promoting standardized QA practices through guidance and coaching of delivery teams.

Professional certifications in software testing, QA, agile delivery, project management, risk, audit, or related disciplines are desirable. Relevant certifications may include ISTQB, PMP, PMI-ACP, SAFe, CISA, CRISC, ITIL, or equivalent.

• Languages: Proficiency in English and one of the other Bank official languages (Spanish, French or Portuguese) is required.

Requirements

• Citizenship: No requirements

• Consanguinity: You have no family members (up to the fourth degree of consanguinity and second degree of affinity, including spouse) working at the IDB, IDB Invest, or IDB Lab.

Type of contract and duration

International consultant: International consultant Full-Time, 12 months (up to 48 months, if applicable).

What we offer

The IDB group provides benefits that respond to the different needs and moments of an employee’s life. These benefits include:

· A competitive compensation packages.

· Leaves and vacations: 2 days per month of contract + gender- neutral parental leave.

· Health Insurance: the IDB Group provides a monthly allowance for the purchase of health insurance.

· Savings plan: The IDB Group cares about your future, depending on the length of the contract, you will receive a monthly savings plan allowance.

· We offer assistance with relocation and visa applications for you and your family when it applies.

-On-site position with the occasional flexibility of teleworking.

· Development support: We offer learning opportunities to boost your professional profile such as seminars, 1:1 professional counseling, and much more.

· Health and wellbeing: Access to our Health Services Center which provides preventive care and health education for all employees.

· Other perks: Lactation Room, Daycare Center, Gym, Bike Racks, Parking, and others.

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