Quality Assurance Test Lead
Posted Today by Coltech
Negotiable
Undetermined
Hybrid
Horsham, England, United Kingdom
Summary: The Senior CCH Tagetik Test Lead / QA Lead role is focused on supporting a major finance transformation programme for a large multinational organization in the insurance and financial services sector. The position requires a senior QA professional with extensive experience in CCH Tagetik testing, finance systems validation, and stakeholder management. The successful candidate will ensure the quality and stability of enterprise performance management solutions while collaborating with various teams in a complex environment. This role involves both hands-on testing and leadership responsibilities in a hybrid working model.
Key Responsibilities:
- Define and own end-to-end testing strategy for CCH Tagetik implementations, upgrades, and enhancements
- Prepare detailed test plans covering SIT, UAT, regression, and release validation activities
- Review business, functional, and technical requirements to ensure complete test coverage and traceability
- Coordinate testing timelines, dependencies, environments, and resource planning
- Validate financial consolidation processes including intercompany eliminations, currency translation, allocations, journals, close and reporting processes
- Verify planning, budgeting, forecasting, and reporting outputs against business and regulatory requirements
- Perform data reconciliation and variance analysis across source systems, Tagetik, and downstream reporting layers
- Ensure accuracy and integrity of financial data and calculations
- Design and execute detailed functional, integration, regression, and negative test scenarios
- Lead defect management activities including logging, prioritisation, tracking, and resolution coordination
- Work closely with development, integration, and functional consulting teams to resolve issues efficiently
- Support release readiness and production deployment validation
- Coordinate and support User Acceptance Testing cycles with Finance and business stakeholders
- Facilitate test walkthroughs, defect triage sessions, and daily status updates
- Produce test metrics, status reporting, and sign-off documentation for programme leadership
- Drive business engagement and ensure timely completion of UAT activities
- Establish and improve QA standards, templates, and testing methodologies
- Identify opportunities for automation and regression optimisation within Tagetik testing processes
- Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives across the wider programme delivery function
- Mentor junior QA analysts and coordinate offshore/onshore testing teams where required
Key Skills:
- 10+ years of experience within Software Testing / QA
- Strong hands-on experience testing CCH Tagetik solutions
- Proven experience working on enterprise-scale Finance Transformation or EPM programmes
- Experience operating as a Test Lead or QA Lead within Agile and hybrid delivery environments
- Strong understanding of Financial Consolidation, FP&A, Budgeting & Forecasting, Financial Reporting, Close & Regulatory reporting cycles
- Knowledge of finance controls, governance, and audit processes
- Test case design and execution, SIT/UAT coordination, defect lifecycle management
- Data validation and reconciliation using SQL and data extracts
- Experience with test management and defect tracking tools
- Exposure to automation testing frameworks is advantageous
- Excellent stakeholder communication and facilitation skills
- Strong analytical and problem-solving capability
- High attention to detail and quality assurance standards
- Ability to work effectively across business and technology teams
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: Horsham
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
Senior CCH Tagetik Test Lead / QA Lead
Location: Horsham, West Sussex (3 days onsite / 2 days remote)
Contract Type: Long-Term Contract
Role Overview
We are seeking an experienced CCH Tagetik Test Lead / QA Lead to support a major finance transformation programme for a large multinational organisation operating within the insurance and financial services sector. This role will play a critical part in ensuring the quality, accuracy, and stability of enterprise performance management solutions across Financial Consolidation, Planning, Forecasting, and Regulatory Reporting processes. The successful candidate will work closely with Finance, Technology, and Delivery teams across multiple workstreams in a complex enterprise environment. The position is suited to a senior QA professional with strong hands-on experience in CCH Tagetik testing , finance systems validation, and stakeholder management within large-scale transformation programmes.
Key Responsibilities
- Test Strategy & Planning
- Define and own end-to-end testing strategy for CCH Tagetik implementations, upgrades, and enhancements
- Prepare detailed test plans covering SIT, UAT, regression, and release validation activities
- Review business, functional, and technical requirements to ensure complete test coverage and traceability
- Coordinate testing timelines, dependencies, environments, and resource planning
- Functional & Financial Testing
- Validate financial consolidation processes including: Intercompany eliminations Currency translation Allocations Journals Close and reporting processes
- Verify Planning, Budgeting, Forecasting, and Reporting outputs against business and regulatory requirements
- Perform data reconciliation and variance analysis across source systems, Tagetik, and downstream reporting layers
- Ensure accuracy and integrity of financial data and calculations
- Test Execution & Defect Management
- Design and execute detailed functional, integration, regression, and negative test scenarios
- Lead defect management activities including logging, prioritisation, tracking, and resolution coordination
- Work closely with development, integration, and functional consulting teams to resolve issues efficiently
- Support release readiness and production deployment validation
- UAT Leadership
- Coordinate and support User Acceptance Testing cycles with Finance and business stakeholders
- Facilitate test walkthroughs, defect triage sessions, and daily status updates
- Produce test metrics, status reporting, and sign-off documentation for programme leadership
- Drive business engagement and ensure timely completion of UAT activities
- QA Governance & Continuous Improvement
- Establish and improve QA standards, templates, and testing methodologies
- Identify opportunities for automation and regression optimisation within Tagetik testing processes
- Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives across the wider programme delivery function
- Mentor junior QA analysts and coordinate offshore/onshore testing teams where required
Required Skills & Experience
Experience
- 10+ years of experience within Software Testing / QA
- Strong hands-on experience testing CCH Tagetik solutions
- Proven experience working on enterprise-scale Finance Transformation or EPM programmes
- Experience operating as a Test Lead or QA Lead within Agile and hybrid delivery environments
Functional Knowledge
- Strong understanding of: Financial Consolidation FP&A Budgeting & Forecasting Financial Reporting Close & Regulatory reporting cycles
- Knowledge of finance controls, governance, and audit processes
Technical Skills
- Test case design and execution SIT/UAT coordination Defect lifecycle management Data validation and reconciliation using SQL and data extracts
- Experience with test management and defect tracking tools
- Exposure to automation testing frameworks is advantageous
Soft Skills
- Excellent stakeholder communication and facilitation skills
- Strong analytical and problem-solving capability
- High attention to detail and quality assurance standards
- Ability to work effectively across business and technology teams
Working Model
Hybrid working model 3 days onsite in Horsham, West Sussex Long-term contract engagement
Preferred Background
Experience within: Insurance Financial Services Banking Large multinational enterprise environments