Business Testing Governance Leader

Wells Fargo & Company•Salt Lake City, UT

23h

About The Position

Wells Fargo is seeking a senior level individual contributor to serve as Business Testing Governance Leader within the Wealth & Investment Management (WIM) Chief Product Office. This role owns the strategy, standards, and end-to-end test quality across WIM product teams. The mission is to deliver consistent, risk-aware, and efficient testing that accelerates time-to-market without sacrificing quality—through clear standards, rigorous pre-release evidence reviews, disciplined release gating, and continuous optimization of testing practices, including automation and shift-left approaches. Success will be measured by improved production stability, faster delivery cycles with stronger coverage, sustainable automation, and audit-ready test evidence.

Requirements

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

Nice To Haves

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.

Responsibilities

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.