QA Manager - Financial Services - Contract Role

Paris  ‐ Onsite
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Description

A key Contract role within an excellent financial services company in Paris. They are looking for a QA Manager come on board and drive the overall testing efforts across the business and technology. You will lead and manage a team of five people but will also coordinate overall internal testing efforts across IT, Risk and Operations.

Some of your key responsibilities will be:

  • Create a testing plan across internal and external facing test environments.
  • Define the testing approach & strategy for each campaign with all stakeholders
  • Work with stakeholders, business analysts and development teams to define test campaigns and address and resolve issues and defects when found.
  • Define a structure for managing test campaigns across a team which allows reporting of overall status as well as detailed drill down of test results.
  • Develop and progress testing team members
  • Drive the test team to automate tasks where possible or provide requirements to development to enable further automation.

You will need:

  • Must have financial services experience
  • This is an English and French speaking role good written and verbal communication skills in both is required.
  • Experience of team management skills applicable for line management of a team of individuals and also stakeholder management covering Risk, Operations, Relationship Management and other functions.
  • Project management skills applicable to managing test phases of projects and software release cycles.
  • Proven ability to review business requirements and system specifications and define functional test cases which test main day to day flows as well as potential edge cases not identified pre-implementation.
  • Experience with the use of test tools such as Quality Centre.
  • Able to differentiate and organise the execution of unit, integration and end-to-end functional tests as well as performance tests.
  • Awareness of OTC derivative trade life cycle and typical issues which will affect batch and intraday trade processing and risk systems.
Start date
n.a
Duration
6 months initial Plus Possible Extenstions
(extension possible)
From
People in Computers
Published at
09.02.2018
Project ID:
1500398
Contract type
Freelance
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