The person in this position will be responsible for the QA&Testing management Listed Derivatives projects. The QA Manager vendor team of test leads and test specialists. His primary goal will be implementation of QA processes aligned with Trade Lifecycle domain and providing quality and test management, leasing with project managers, production and environmental managers.

The responsibilities for job entails the person in the position:

• Manage vendor’s team of quality test leads and test specialists over all Listed Derivatives projects
• Resource to deliver against the agreed test plan within budget and timeframes
• Lead effort to test and analyze each component/phase of the systems development life cycle including the project requirements, design and programs
• Analyze test results and measuring of KPI's against defined quality criteria
• Take responsibility QA team delivery such as: estimation, planning, preparation and execution
• Organize and keep up to date knowledge base
• Build up automation strategy, manage testing scripts development update and execution
• Evaluate testing coverage by working with Testing Specialists to review and understand business requirements and functional specifications
• Manage Business/Program Head expectations through testing strategy, planning and status reporting
• Implements the Trade Lifecycle strategic initiatives on QA processes improvement
• Manages the major deliverables testing along with managing test plans and test resources
• Collect testing metrics of testing progress, defects, risks and issues
• Drives the creation of test automation strategy/approach and ensures its implementation
• Manages the automation tools utilization (namely QTP) and test automation (based on QC and JIRA)
• Identifies the areas of weakness in existing procedures and assesses the risk from changes to the project
• Communicates and coordinates test activities with vendor, IT, project managers and business mangers
• Continuously drives for improving of development and testing processes
• Insure all Test Deliverables are completed including Test Approach, Scenarios, Conditions & Expected Results, Test Cycle Control Sheet, Test Scripts
• Collaborates with other project leads to minimize testing inter-dependency issues and agree to migration to live environment.

Requirements

Experience/Background:

• IT academic background
• 7+ years experience in QA and testing area, hands on testing experience along with the use of testing tools and automation, preferably in Banking environment especially. Investment banking is the perfect match.
• 5+ years experience in testing management, this includes various types of testing
• Experience in managing remote testing groups and offshore vendors
• Strong experience in vendors teams management

Personal Characteristics:

• Accountability and skills of managing expectations
• Striving for excellence
• Passion for sharing knowledge and best practice
• Ability to maintain effectiveness in a changing environment
• Result oriented
• Strong communication skills and English

Skills Required:

• Strong experience in software development processes, models, lifecycles and methodologies
• Test planning, designing, and test strategy/case/script creation and execution
• Strong experience in managing vendor’s testing teams for various types of testing including functional and non-function testing, SIT, regression and performance testing
• Experience with system integration, component and regression testing
• Test Automation tools
• Project management tools usage
• Requirements tracking, scope management and risk management methodology
• Different SDLC methodology practice
• Automation test and test framework development proficiency
• Knowledge of white/black box level testing, system and performance testing of applications using industry standard practices and tools
• Experience with defect and change tracking, producing performance metrics
• Business trips up to 10%

Preferred:

• Knowledge of various architectures
• Knowledge of systems analysis, design and programming methodologies and tools
• Significant testing experience of large parts of the trade processing / order management lifecycle in investment banking.