The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc

Quality Assurance Lead

Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience
  • 3+ years of relevant experience in quality assurance and software testing
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Familiarity with Actimize fraud solutions and workflows
  • Knowledge of regulatory compliance and governance standards
  • Experience in automation testing frameworks and tools

Responsibilities

  • Lead the development and execution of effective test strategies for fraud detection solutions
  • Coordinate testing efforts and manage defect resolution during product lifecycle
  • Analyze requirements and design test cases aligned with fraud scenarios
  • Validate data integrity and fraud logic across Actimize systems
  • Support automation of testing processes to enhance efficiency
  • Ensure compliance with regulatory and organizational quality standards
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align on testing and quality expectations

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • 401(k) plan with PNC match and pension options
  • Short and long-term disability and life insurance
  • Educational assistance programs, including fully paid select programs
  • Adoption and surrogate reimbursement support
  • Robust wellness program with financial incentives
  • Generous paid time off options, including vacation and holidays
Full Job Description
Position Overview

As a Quality Assurance Lead within PNC's Technology organization, you will be based in Pittsburgh, PA.

A Fraud Quality Engineer in Fraud Engineering ensures Actimize-based fraud solutions (AIS, IFM, RCM) are reliable, accurate, and aligned to business and regulatory expectations by validating workflows, models, and data behavior in a highly regulated environment.

Testing & Validation Skills
• Ability to analyze Actimize workflows, rules, and model behavior across AIS and IFM to design effective test strategies, including functional, integration, and regression testing.
• Strong skill in developing and executing test cases for RCM workflows, alerts, and case management processes, ensuring alignment to defined requirements and fraud scenarios.
• Creating and maintaining traceability between requirements, Actimize objects (e.g., workflows, rules, models), test cases, and defects to ensure full validation coverage.

Data Validation & Platform Expertise
• Ability to validate data ingestion, transformations, and outputs across Actimize pipelines, including file-based inputs, database tables, and alert generation.
• Strong understanding of underlying RCM database structures to support validation of workflows, case states, and audit data.
• Ensures accuracy of fraud detection logic by validating scenarios across multiple data conditions and edge cases.

Automation & Defect Management
• Support for automation of testing activities, including execution of repeatable regression test suites for Actimize releases and configuration changes.
• Strong focus on defect identification, triage, and root cause analysis, including validation of fixes across Actimize environments.
• Collaboration with engineering teams to validate deployments (APK/SPK) and ensure no regression or unintended impact to existing fraud logic.

Quality, Controls & Audit Readiness
• Ensures all testing activities align to regulatory, audit, and PNC governance expectations
• Maintains detailed evidence of testing, including traceability to requirements, test execution results, and defect resolution.
• Focus on completeness and control adherence, ensuring solutions align to approved scope, design standards, and fraud risk mitigation objectives.

Release Support & Continuous Improvement
• Supports release validation activities, including environment shakeout testing, post-deployment validation, and production certification.
• Partners with business analysts, engineers, and product teams to ensure shared understanding of Actimize requirements and expected outcomes.
• Contributes to lessons learned, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement of testing practices across fraud engineering initiatives.

PNC is an in-office company that fosters a supportive culture where employees can thrive and achieve balance. We encourage candidates to connect with their recruiter and hiring manager to understand workplace expectations and ensure the role aligns with their goals.

PNC will not provide sponsorship for employment visas or participate in STEM OPT for this position.

Job Description
  • Operating in a global delivery model, brings strategic direction to testing and acts as the subject matter expert for both the quality discipline and a line of business domain(s).
  • Leads the review of testing artifacts throughout the product life-cycle to ensure appropriate sign off and prioritization of testing work. Including coordinating test strategy, scripting and defect resolution.
  • Including ensuring early engagement with internal partners and proactive planning to ensure quality is a core area of focus early in the product lifecycle.
  • Take accountability for quality standards in the development, implementation and upkeep test scripts and opportunities for automation of testing products.
  • Developing meaningful management metrics that help to gauge project health. Identify trends and opportunities for continuous improvement in product release.


PNC Employees take pride in our reputation and to continue building upon that we expect our employees to be:
  • Customer Focused - Knowledgeable of the values and practices that align customer needs and satisfaction as primary considerations in all business decisions and able to leverage that information in creating customized customer solutions.
  • Managing Risk - Assessing and effectively managing all of the risks associated with their business objectives and activities to ensure they adhere to and support PNC's Enterprise Risk Management Framework.


Qualifications

Successful candidates must demonstrate appropriate knowledge, skills, and abilities for a role. Listed below are skills, competencies, work experience, education, and required certifications/licensures needed to be successful in this position.

Preferred Skills
Analytical Thinking, Controls Testing, Corporate Governance, Quality Assurance (QA), Quality Support, Software Testing, Test Case Development, Usability Testing

Competencies
Accuracy and Attention to Detail, Analytical Thinking, Influencing, Process Management, Products and Services, Software Development Life Cycle, Software Quality Assurance And Testing, Technical Documentation Management

Work Experience
Roles at this level typically require a university / college degree, with 3+ years of relevant / direct industry experience. Certifications are often desired. In lieu of a degree, a comparable combination of education, job specific certification(s), and experience (including military service) may be considered.

Education
Bachelors

Certifications
No Required Certification(s)

Licenses
No Required License(s)

Benefits

PNC offers a comprehensive range of benefits to help meet your needs now and in the future. Depending on your eligibility, options for full-time employees include: medical/prescription drug coverage (with a Health Savings Account feature), dental and vision options; employee and spouse/child life insurance; short and long-term disability protection; 401(k) with PNC match, pension and stock purchase plans; dependent care reimbursement account; back-up child/elder care; adoption, surrogacy, and doula reimbursement; educational assistance, including select programs fully paid; a robust wellness program with financial incentives.

In addition, PNC generally provides the following paid time off, depending on your eligibility: maternity and/or parental leave; up to 11 paid holidays each year; 9 occasional absence days each year, unless otherwise required by law; between 15 to 25 vacation days each year, depending on career level; and years of service.

To learn more about these and other programs, including benefits for full time and part-time employees, visit pncthrive.com.

About The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc

PNC is a financial service company providing bank deposit products and services to its community. The company assets (as of December 31, 2011) of approximately $271.2 billion. PNC operations include a regional banking franchise operating primarily in nineteen states and the District of Columbia with more than 2,700 branches, online and mobile services together with 7,400 ATM machines, specialized financial businesses serving companies and government entities, and asset management and processing businesses.

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At The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc, your career is what you make it. Join us and discover how your unique talents can be honed and appreciated in an environment that fosters professional and personal growth. Let’s build the future of financial services together.

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Learn more about The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc
Size
57,668 employees
Market Cap
$62.6 billion
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Net Income
$7.5 billion
Founded
1845
5 Year Trend
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