Programme Test Manager

Job Responsibilities/Objectives

• You will be responsible for leading the functional testing life cycle across a complex, multi-vendor treasury transformation programme. Working closely with the Systems Integrator, technology vendors and business stakeholders, you will ensure testing is effectively planned, coordinated, governed and delivered.
• Own and manage the overall test strategy, planning, governance and delivery across SIT, Business Functional Testing (BFT), E2E, UAT and regression testing.
• Review and quality-assure test scenarios, cases and scripts produced by the Systems Integrator, ensuring requirements traceability and test coverage.
• Coordinate testing activities across business teams, subject matter experts, vendors and implementation partners, ensuring environments, test data and resources are ready.
• Manage the master test schedule, execution progress, cross-workstream dependencies and daily defect triage.
• Produce test status reports, KPI dashboards and quality metrics, providing clear visibility of testing progress, risks and potential delays.
• Define testing entry and exit criteria, lead readiness and closure assessments, and provide evidence-based Go/No-Go recommendations to programme leadership.

Required Skills/Experience

• Proven experience as a Functional Test Manager, Programme Test Manager or Senior Test Manager on large-scale, complex transformation programmes.
• Strong experience managing end-to-end testing life cycles, including SIT, E2E and UAT.
• Demonstrable experience with test strategy, risk-based testing, requirements traceability matrices (RTM), defect management and regression testing.
• Experience coordinating testing across Systems Integrators, software vendors, business SMEs and multiple stakeholder groups.
• Strong Jira experience, ideally including Zephyr, alongside experience producing test reporting and KPI dashboards.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to present testing progress, risks and Go/No-Go recommendations to senior leadership.

Desirable Skills/Experience

• Previous testing experience within financial services, banking, corporate treasury or finance transformation programmes.
• Exposure to treasury management systems, cash management, payments, foreign exchange and hedging.
• Experience with FIS Quantum, FIS Trax, SAP S/4HANA, SnapLogic or 360T.
• Experience supporting external audit assurance, including test coverage, requirements traceability and execution evidence.