until 31.01.2028
Luxembourg
Employment type
Contract
Industry
Banking
Area
IT
Location
Luxembourg
Remote from abroad?
No
Home office?
First 3 months fully onsite, then 2 days home office max. per week to be agreed with line manager.
Contract duration
until 31.01.2028
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Tasks and responsibilities
- Clarify and formalise requirements and estimate related testing efforts for projects and change requests.
- Define the test strategy and approach for each initiative, including scope, entry/exit criteria, risk-based prioritisation.
- Formulate sign-off criteria with involved stakeholders.
- Define a test execution plan and arrange for the availability of necessary resources.
- Prepare and maintain test plans aligned to release strategy, upgrade milestones, and sprint calendar.
- Clarify training needs with users and support the activities.
- Manage test environment requirements and test data requirements in coordination with IT Operations and development teams.
- Aligning activities with stakeholders on environment and release/change management.
- Design test cases aligned with test data requirements.
- Coordinate the handover of project-delivered test cases into the regression portfolio, ensuring completeness and quality within sprints.
- Ensure requirements engineers are engaged in test case review for upgrade-critical business domains, to complement business input with technical test scenarios.
- Execute test cases and coordinate SIT, UAT, and regression cycles.
- Organise and support user acceptance testing (UAT) in coordination with business users.
- Monitor execution and enhance testing process where required.
- Coordinate and communicate testing activities with upstream and downstream systems (integration testing).
- Track and report test execution progress during release test phases.
- Track, report, and manage issues (change requests, defects, deviations) found during testing.
- Manage test reports and report test results for project management and line management.
- Provide testing status, risk assessment, and go/no-go recommendations for deployments.
- Maintain traceability between business requirements, test cases, and defects.
- Drive continuous improvement of testing processes, estimation templates, and quality gates.
- Ensure test management budget allocation in project estimations reflects actual effort (for example 15% of project budget).
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Must-have criteria
- Strong experience in test management and test governance within complex enterprise environments
- Proven track record in managing end-to-end testing activities for Core Systems (T24) and Document Management Systems (IBM FileNet & Papyrus)
- Strong knowledge of test strategy definition, test planning, risk-based testing, and release readiness assessment
- Experience coordinating cross-functional project teams and business stakeholders
- Demonstrated ability to effectively manage and align diverse stakeholders, acting as the central point of coordination
- Ability to define, monitor, and report test KPIs, quality metrics, defects, risks, and overall test progress
- Strong understanding of functional, integration, regression, user acceptance, and non-functional testing
- Experience in managing testing across multiple projects and releases within agile and waterfall delivery models
- Knowledge of test automation strategies and the integration of automated testing into delivery pipelines, ensuring early identification and mitigation of risks and downstream impacts on local systems
- Advanced experience with the test management and defect tracking tools such as JIRA, Xray
- Proven experience with Temenos T24 (Transact) and in-depth knowledge of its banking modules and processes are essential for this role.
- Excellent stakeholder management, communication, presentation, and influencing skills across business and IT organisations
- Ability to manage priorities, budgets, timelines, and test resources in a dynamic environment
- Strong analytic, conceptual, and problem-solving skills with a focus on quality assurance and continuous improvement
- Dynamic and agile mindset with the ability to drive change and foster collaboration across teamsName, Department
- Bachelor's degree related to the area of expertise and/or at least 9 years of experience in a similar position with focus on IT & Finance
03
Nice-to-have criteria
- Relevant certifications such as ISTQB Test Manager, ISTQB Advanced Level Test Management, Agile Testing, or equivalent are considered an asset.
04
Language requirements
Fluent English
German is an advantage
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