Test Manager for a banking project

Jit Team is a Polish IT company employing over 770 experts and delivering innovative IT solutions with highly specialized teams. They have a long-term partnership with a leading financial group in the Nordic countries, supporting over 200 personnel in more than 60 projects, with a focus on Scandinavian culture emphasizing work-life balance and an international environment with English communication.

• Strong domain knowledge in the financial sector, preferably in mortgage lending/home financing
• Minimum 5 years experience in QA leadership, Test Manager, or QA Lead roles
• Proven experience leading and coaching QA teams
• Extensive experience with functional and non-functional testing, System, Integration, and End-to-End testing
• Experience with test automation initiatives, test environment and data management, QA governance and reporting
• Ability to manage testing activities throughout complete project lifecycle
• Experience creating dashboards, status reports, and executive 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 planning, execution, documentation, and reporting of all required testing types and levels
• Define, manage, and execute QA and test management activities covering functional and non-functional testing
• Drive integration and End-to-End (E2E) testing across multiple Scrum teams
• Collaborate with ART leadership, Product Management, Architects, Release Management, Business stakeholders, and Scrum Teams
• Develop and continuously improve testing strategies, approaches, 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