Role Title: Test Manager – Treasury

Client: Financial Services

Employment Type: Contract

Duration: 1 year - 2025

Location: Remote with travel to NY every 3-4 weeks (onsite 4 days those weeks)

Role Description:

The Test Manager is responsible for leading the overall testing strategy, planning, and execution across multiple projects within a program. This role requires a strategic approach to quality assurance, with a focus on test governance, defect management, and alignment with program milestones and business objectives. The Program Test Manager will collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure efficient test delivery, risk mitigation, and quality standards across all program deliverables.

Test Strategy & Planning

• Develop, document, and drive the test strategy for the program, ensuring alignment with organizational standards and quality expectations.
• Oversee the creation of project-specific test plans, timelines, and resource requirements, in collaboration with project test managers or leads.
• Ensure leadership approval of the test strategy and test plans, and manage any adjustments based on program changes or risk assessments.

Test Execution Management

• Manage test execution across the program, ensuring timely progress on system integration testing (SIT), user acceptance testing (UAT), and other test phases as applicable.
• Monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) to track test effectiveness, defect density, and resolution rates, adjusting the test approach as necessary.
• Coordinate test kickoff, standups, and checkpoint meetings to keep test efforts aligned with the program timeline and deliverables.

Defect and Quality Management

• Establish and oversee the defect management process, coordinating with development, business analysts, and other stakeholders to prioritize and resolve issues efficiently.
• Lead defect triage sessions, ensuring proper classification and escalation of defects based on their impact on program success and timelines.
• Ensure that test environments are sufficiently available and stable for testing needs, coordinating with environment management as needed.

Governance and Reporting

• Ensure compliance with quality management standards, including risk assessments and periodic quality reviews of test deliverables.
• Provide regular updates and reports on test progress, defect status, and risk to senior leadership, highlighting potential impacts on program delivery.
• Facilitate go/no-go decision-making process

Requirements:

We need someone who is very experienced but needs to be very hands on.

Required Skills and Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field.
• 10+ years of experience in quality assurance and testing, with extensive expertise in a test leadership role across large programs.
• Strong expertise in test planning, test case design, execution management, and defect management processes.
• Familiarity with testing methodologies such as Agile, Waterfall, and hybrid models.
• Proficient in test management tools (e.g., JIRA, ALM or similar).
• Excellent communication, leadership, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to influence stakeholders at various levels.
• Strong understanding of risk-based testing, automation, and performance testing approaches.

Preferred Qualifications:

• ISTQB or other relevant testing certification.
• Experience in business continuity and resiliency testing.
• Knowledge of ERP systems, especially Oracle ERP Cloud, is a plus.
• Banking, Treasury, or financial management is highly preferred