Define and lead the quality strategy, standards and practices for the Payment & FAIS platform from the ground up, ensuring the architecture, implementation and operations meet the highest standards of reliability, security, performance and compliance.Partner closely with product, engineering, finance and operations teams to drive test planning, automation and continuous improvement of the end-to-end financial transaction flow — from order capture, payment processing, cash-flow recording, reconciliation, to financial closing and reporting.Design, implement and maintain a robust automation framework, including integration tests, API tests, end-to-end workflows and scenario coverage for all major business flows (payments, collections, refunds, cross-system integrations).Establish and maintain performance, stress and scalability testing practices to ensure the FAIS platform can handle high transaction volumes and rapid growth across the entire company.Drive the adoption of best practices in software quality assurance, shift-left testing, CI/CD integration, code quality metrics, and test data management; influence engineering decisions from early stages to ensure testability, observability and robustness.Monitor quality KPIs (defect leakage rate, test coverage, automation ratio, cycle time, mean time to detect/fix defects) and report on quality health to stakeholders, making recommendations for improvement.