Job Description:
Role Title
:
Manager, eGRC Quality Assurance (L09)
Company Overview:
Synchrony (NYSE: SYF) is a premier consumer financial services company delivering one of the industry’s most complete digitally enabled product suites. Our experience, expertise and scale encompass a broad spectrum of industries including digital, health and wellness, retail, telecommunications, home, auto, outdoors, pet and more.
We have recently been ranked #2 among India’s Best Companies to Work for by Great Place to Work. We were among the Top 50 India’s Best Workplaces in Building a Culture of Innovation by All by GPTW and Top 25 among Best Workplaces in BFSI by GPTW. We have also been recognized by AmbitionBox Employee Choice Awards among the Top 20 Mid-Sized Companies, ranked #3 among Top Rated Companies for Women, and Top-Rated Financial Services Companies.
We provide best-in-class employee benefits and programs that cater to work-life integration and overall well-being.
We provide career advancement and upskilling opportunities, for all to take up leadership roles.
Organizational Overview:
Synchrony's Risk Team provides independent oversight of Synchrony’s risk-taking activities to ensure safety and soundness, meet regulatory and legal requirements, and manage risks to the risk-appetite of the Board. Risk is responsible for independently assessing, quantifying, and overseeing risks & providing effective challenge. Risk serves as Synchrony’s Second Line of Defense.
Overall, Risk Team oversees and manages the Risk Program to support the business in anticipating and addressing risks, issues and challenges. Results are consistent with the respective strategic uses and complying with related overall risk, risk testing policies, standards, procedures as well as regulations. Our Risk organization consists of 4 pillars: Compliance, Credit & Financial Risk, Enterprise Risk and Operational Risk. Each of the pillars play a vital role in managing Risk and supports the business in anticipating and addressing risks, issues, and challenges.
Enterprise Risk provides oversight on Synchrony-wide initiatives and projects and manages issues, risk assessment & reporting, risk monitoring activities, policy standards and procedure framework for governance documents.
Role Summary/Purpose:
We are seeking a highly skilled
Senior eGRC QA
to join the Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) team as an individual contributor. In this role, you will ensure the quality, reliability, and usability of our eGRC platform by leading
functional and automation testing
across complex GRC domains such as
Risk Control Self-Assessment (RCSA), Issues Management, Risk Acceptance, and Compliance Assessments
.
You will collaborate closely with business stakeholders, developers, and automation engineers to define test strategy, execute comprehensive test cycles, and drive defect resolution—ensuring workflows and systems are compliant, accurate, and user-friendly.
Key Responsibilities:
Lead and execute
functional and automation testing
for eGRC modules including
RCSA, Issues Management, Risk Acceptance, and Compliance Assessments
.
Develop and maintain QA artifacts including
test strategy, test plans, test cases, test data, automation scripts, and execution reports
, ensuring alignment to business requirements and risk/control criteria.
Partner with product owners/business SMEs, developers, and QA/automation teams to coordinate test execution,
triage defects
, and ensure timely resolution.
Perform
integration, regression, and end-to-end testing
to validate enhancements and maintain workflow/data integrity across releases.
Support
UAT
by preparing scenarios, validating results, and ensuring production readiness with clear quality reporting (coverage, defect trends, release go/no-go inputs).
Required Skills/Knowledge:
Bachelor’s degree with
4+ years
of relevant experience,
or
in lieu of degree
6+ years
of relevant experience.
4+ years of QA experience
on Functional & Automation testing.
Proven ability to write and execute detailed test cases including workflow validation, role-based access testing, approvals, audit trails, and data validation.
Strong experience in
Agile/Scrum
environments with test/defect management tools such as
JIRA
and/or
ALM Octane
.
Hands-on experience in
QA automation
using
Java
,
Selenium
,
TestNG
, and
Maven
.
Experience designing and maintaining
data-driven automation frameworks
(parameterization, reusable utilities/components, externalized test data).
Experience implementing and maintaining automation
reporting using Allure Reports
(dashboards/trends, attachments such as screenshots/logs, execution history).
Working knowledge of
Bitbucket/Git
for source control, branching/merging, and pull-request/code review practices.
Experience integrating and executing automated suites using
Jenkins
(CI job/pipeline execution, scheduled runs, publishing Allure results).
Excellent analytical, communication, and documentation skills with the ability to work independently and collaboratively.
Desired Skills/Knowledge:
4+ years of QA experience
on Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) systems, preferably on platforms such as
SAI360, RSA Archer, or MetricStream
.
Strong functional knowledge of core GRC processes such as
RCSA, Issues Management, Risk Acceptance, Compliance Assessments
(Audit Management exposure is a plus).
Experience with regulatory/compliance requirements such as
SOX, GDPR
(financial services/regulated industry experience preferred).
Relevant certifications in QA and/or GRC domains such as
ISTQB, CISA, CRISC
.
QA Automation experience using
Selenium, Playwright
Eligibility Criteria:
Bachelor’s degree with
4+ years
of work experience,
or
in lieu of degree
6+ years
of work experience.
Minimum 4 years and maximum 6 years
of experience in a
Functional & Automation QA
role.
Work Timings:
2PM to 11PM IST
This role qualifies for Enhanced Flexibility offered in Synchrony India and will require the incumbent to be available between 06:00 AM Eastern Time – 11:30 AM Eastern Time (timings are anchored to US Eastern hours and will adjust twice a year locally). This window is for meetings with India and US teams. The remaining hours will be flexible for the employee to choose. Exceptions may apply periodically due to business needs)
We are proud to offer flexibility at Synchrony. Our way of working allows you the option to work from home or workspaces in our Regional Engagement Hubs—Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Pune, Kolkata, or Delhi/NCR.
Occasionally you may be required to commute or travel to Hyderabad or one of the Regional Engagement Hubs for in person engagement activities such as business or team meetings, trainings, and culture events.
For Internal Applicants:
Understand the criteria or mandatory skills required for the role, before applying
Inform your manager and HRM before applying for any role on Workday.
Ensure that your professional profile is updated (fields such as education, prior experience, other skills) and it is mandatory to upload your updated resume (Word or PDF format)
Must not be any corrective action plan (First Formal/Final Formal, LPP)
L4 to L7 Employees who have completed 12 months in the organization and 12 months in their current role and level are only eligible.
L8+ Employees who have completed 18 months in the organization and 12 months in their current role and level are only eligible.
L04+ Employees can apply.
Grade/Level: 09
Job Family Group:
Risk Management
