Job Description

Test Manager

Manages the testing efforts for a suite of related applications within the technology environment. Accountable for the successful planning, design and execution of cross-application test efforts. Responsible for coordinating the testing efforts of application specific technical teams, ensuring that the End To End Test Plan is a cohesive whole that satisfies the business requirement, ensuring the quality of the implementation. Provides effort estimations, documentation, status reporting. Maintains the master test plan. Reports issues and blockers early. Coordinates remediation of issues with all stakeholders up and down the reporting hierarchy. Manages testing timelines, to align with project or program goals. Collaborates and shares knowledge while coordinating the efforts of multiple test teams. Provides expertise in the primary function of End to End Test Lead, and may provide input or guidance in other disciplines such as project planning, software development, and other problem solving opportunities such as post production problem resolution.
As a member of the payments technology team, the candidate will be responsible for efforts that ensure the quality the target payments & integration environment that will drive global payments at Bank of America for the next 30 years. The candidate will be responsible for the development and execution of automated test plans following reusable development patterns while designing for agility, ensuring the quality, high availability, resiliency & recovery of the target platform.

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• Assumes responsibilities as the main client contact leading engagement w/ 10-20% support from Consulting & Client Partners. 
• Develops, assesses, and validates a client’s business strategy, including industry and competitive positioning and strategic direction
• Develops solutions and services to suit client’s business strategy
• Estimates scope and liability for delivery of the end product/solution
• Seeks opportunities to develop revenue in existing and new areas
• Leads an engagement and oversees others’ contributions at a customer end, such that customer expectations are met or exceeded. 
• Drives Proposal creation and presales activities for the engagement; new accounts
• Contributes towards the development of practice policies, procedures, frameworks etc. 
• Guides less experienced team members in delivering solutions.
• Leads efforts  towards building go-to-market/ off the shelf / point solutions and process smethodologies for reuse
• Creates reusable IP from managed projects

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Deep  experience in information technology, with multiple projects in  banking Payments domain related experience.
• Motivated and driven tester with a proven track record with a commitment to quality, efficiency, and excellence
• Payment’s domain expertise in Corporate / Wholesale Banking and/or Treasury / Cash Management.
• Interpreting business requirements and technical solutions, applying effective and thorough test solutions.

Team Management & Relationship Skills
• Drive the success of the test effort, coordinating with application teams and other partners.
• Coordinate all partner team activities as they relate to the goal of defining the test plan. Holding frequent design, development, execution, and review/remediation checkpoints.
• Drive partners to optimize opportunities, resolve issues, and see the plan to completion.
• Work effectively in a matrixed organization, with globally distributed stakeholders.
• Identify risks and issues. Communicate same, proactively offering responses.
• Collaborate. Express ideas and solutions, solicit feedback, work to implement the best ideas.

Technical Skills
• Testing methodologies for both large individual applications, and complex cross-application flows. Binding together to create comprehensive End to End Test Plans.
• Understanding of application designs and patterns, software development processes, implementation readiness, and maintenance as it relates to testability.
• Ability to conceptualize variance in process and scenarios, for example production parallel testing, staged or ramped up implementations and data migrations.
• Data/Test Case Definition, Creation and Automation. Managing test environments.
• Experience with SDLC / SW development processes (SAFe Agile).
• Ability to learn and adapt. Apply experience to new situations Should have experience in managing 4 to 5 scrums teams test deliverablesClear status reporting to senior stake holders.Should thoroughly manage cross team dependencies and plan the test execution cycles.API Testing, Automation framework development and enhancement,Core Java, Selenium, Spring Boot,  hands on experienceCucumber BDD FrameworkSQLDefect ManagementTools like Octane, MQ, Postman, RAFT, GIT CLI commands, Jira, confluence experience likeISO 200222 MX Messages - camt, pacs, pain testing expertiseSWIT MT Messages – MT101, MT103, MT202, MT900, MT910 etc..Real Time Payments, CHAPS, SEPA, CBPR+, RTGS, Faster Payments etc…File based payments, Bulk Payments experience