Test Manager for a banking project

Jit Team is a Polish company with over 770 experienced experts and more than 15 years of activity. They have a long-term relationship with a leading financial group in the Nordic countries, providing over 200 personnel for more than 60 projects for a Norwegian financial services provider. The client's work culture emphasizes Scandinavian values, including work-life balance and international teamwork with English language exposure.

• Strong domain knowledge within the financial sector, preferably in mortgage lending/home financing
• Minimum 5 years of experience in a QA leadership, Test Manager, or QA Lead role
• Proven experience leading and coaching QA teams of various sizes
• Extensive experience with functional and non-functional testing, system, integration, and end-to-end testing
• Experience with test automation initiatives
• Test environment and test data management expertise
• QA governance and reporting skills
• Ability to manage testing activities throughout the complete project lifecycle
• Experience creating dashboards, status reports, and executive-level presentations related to testing and quality
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills
• Understanding of complex legacy system environments

Nice to have:

• Knowledge of Spark and Scala
• Experience with DevOps practices and automated CI/CD pipelines
• Experience managing testing activities in a mainframe environment
• Knowledge of AI-driven testing, advanced test automation, and non-functional testing

• Lead and coordinate QA activities across the Agile Release Train (ART)
• Ensure comprehensive planning, execution, documentation, and reporting of all test types and levels
• Define, manage, and execute QA and test management activities for functional and non-functional testing
• Drive integration and End-to-End testing efforts across multiple Scrum teams
• Collaborate with ART leadership, Product Management, Architects, Release Management, Business stakeholders, and Scrum Teams to align testing priorities
• Develop and improve testing strategies, methodologies, and best practices
• Ensure readiness and availability of test environments, test data, and other critical testing enablers
• Identify testing skill gaps and support team development through coaching and mentoring
• Contribute to release readiness assessments and provide quality metrics and recommendations for release sign-offs
• Monitor test progress, quality risks, dependencies, and impediments, escalating when necessary
• Ensure delivery of sufficient test evidence before production releases
• Coordinate testing schedules aligned with release and deployment plans
• Drive continuous improvements in test automation coverage, KPIs, maintenance, and operational efficiency
• Communicate testing status, quality risks, and improvement initiatives to technical and business stakeholders