Functional Programme Test Manager, £625 per day inside IR35
3 months rolling, Remote Working
Bench IT require a Functional Test Manager will lead functional test management across a global corporate treasury replatforming programme implementing FIS Quantum and FIS Trax (Payment Hub), integrated through SnapLogic with S/4HANA, 360T and banking partners.
This role owns the functional test life cycle from strategy and conceptual design through readiness, coordinated execution, governance, reporting and closure. The successful candidate will provide hands-on leadership across System Integration Testing (SIT), Business Functional Testing (BFT), End-to-End (E2E), User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and regression.
Essential
- Own and refine the test strategy, stages, test types, risk-based approach and requirements-to-execution traceability methodology.
- Demonstrable test management leadership on large, integrated, multi-vendor programmes.
- Guide and quality-assure scenario catalogues, test cases, templates and scripts produced by the Systems Integrator, ensuring completeness, consistency and fitness for purpose.
- Consolidate test scenarios, cases, plans and execution waves; maintain full RTM traceability and lead final readiness and entry-gate assessments.
- Own the master test schedule and execution calendar, manage cross-stream dependencies, adjust plans in response to defects and chair test coordination meetings.
- End-to-end ownership of SIT, E2E and UAT life cycles, including readiness, execution governance and closure.
- Strong knowledge of risk-based testing and full RTM traceability from requirements through scenarios, cases and execution evidence.
- Proven defect governance experience, including daily triage, escalation, retesting and regression management.
- Produce structured status reports, KPI dashboards and phase-closure forecasts based on execution progress and defect trends.
- Experience coordinating execution across Systems Integrators, vendors, SMEs and business testers.
- Strong Jira experience, ideally including Zephyr.
- Define entry and exit criteria, lead readiness and closure gates, and provide clear Go/No-Go recommendations to programme leadership.
- Ability to develop meaningful test KPIs, forecast phase closure and present evidence-based Go/No-Go recommendations to senior stakeholders.
- Excellent communication, facilitation and stakeholder-management skills in English.
Highly desirable
- Testing experience within financial services, ERP-integrated finance environments or payments platforms.
Desirable
- Corporate treasury knowledge covering areas such as cash management, payments, foreign exchange, hedging and accounting.
- Exposure to FIS Quantum, FIS Trax, SnapLogic, S/4HANA or 360T.
- Experience supporting external audit assurance of test coverage and execution evidence.
Functional Programme Test Manager, £625 per day inside IR35
3 months rolling, Remote Working