Senior Testmanager/-in (Lead)

Project overview

Guten Tag,

Ich suche ASAP eine/-n SENIOR Testmanager/-in (LEAD) für folgendes Projekt.

What you can expect:

We are seeking an experienced, senior and hands-on Group Test Manager to lead the integrated testing workstream for the RBI Digital Euro Pilot. A central challenge of this role is to orchestrate a complex stakeholder landscape spanning RBI, Tatra banka, Raiffeisenbank Croatia, RPC, the selected solution vendor, Group-level functions, local delivery and test teams, programme governance, and the ECB/NCB/DESP ecosystem.

The Group Test Manager will provide the central coordination point for all testing-related dependencies, commitments and readiness information. The role will align stakeholders with different responsibilities, delivery plans, systems and decision rights into one auditable, executable and evidence-based Group test approach. This includes obtaining timely commitments, resolving conflicting priorities, maintaining transparency across organisational boundaries and escalating issues where alignment cannot be achieved.

The Group Test Manager will own the Group Test Concept, integrated test plan, common standards, cross-entity coordination, consolidated reporting and readiness assessment. Local Project Managers and local test leads remain accountable for local preparation, environments, resources and execution.

Responsibilities

Group Test Strategy & Governance

What you bring to the table:

Domain Expertise

• Define and maintain the Group Test Strategy and Test Concept for the Digital Euro Pilot.
• Establish the test scope, test phases, test levels, common standards, quality gates and entry/exit criteria.
• Create an integrated test plan and calendar aligned with the programme plan, entity delivery plans, supplier releases and ECB/DESP testing windows.
• Define the governance model, responsibilities and interfaces between Group testing, local Project Managers, local test leads, the solution vendor, RPC, the Group Security Manager and ECB/NCB counterparts.
• Provide documented entry/exit and readiness recommendations; formal decisions remain with the Programme Board or Steering Committee.
• Extensive experience as a Test Manager, Test Lead or Quality Assurance Lead in large, complex banking or payment programmes.
• Proven experience establishing enterprise-level test strategies and coordinating integrated testing across multiple legal entities, delivery teams and suppliers.
• Strong hands-on experience with system integration testing, end-to-end testing, user acceptance testing, regression testing and operational-readiness testing.
• Experience managing testing across APIs, event-driven integrations, payment platforms, core banking systems, customer channels and external infrastructures.
• Proven ability to build requirements-to-test traceability, define evidence standards and produce audit-ready test documentation.
• Strong defect-management experience, including triage, severity models, root-cause coordination, ageing management and executive escalation.
• Experience working with vendors and challenging delivery quality, readiness claims, test evidence and remediation plans constructively.
• Experience working in international and multi-entity organisations with distributed teams and shared/local accountabilities.
• Experience with regulated environments, formal quality gates, assurance expectations and management-level go/no-go preparation.
• Hands-on experience with established test-management and defect-management tools; the programme-specific toolset will be agreed during mobilisation.
• Strong understanding of banking and payment-processing value chains, including customer onboarding, transaction processing, liquidity, settlement, reconciliation and operational support.
• Good understanding of payment integration patterns, REST/OpenAPI interfaces, messaging, events, file-based integration and end-to-end transaction traceability.
• Experience testing real-time, high-availability and high-volume transaction-processing environments.
• Knowledge of non-functional testing in regulated payment environments, including performance, resilience, recovery, monitoring and operational controls.
• Experience with ECB, central-bank, scheme-certification or comparable external validation processes is a strong advantage.
• Previous experience with CBDC initiatives, Digital Euro programmes, digital wallets or multi-party payment ecosystems is highly preferred.
• Understanding of the relationship between local bank systems, shared Group services, technical service providers and external scheme/platform components is considered a strong advantage.

Requirements

Please Note: In case you are doing business in foreign countries and offer your services for this position make sure that you are willing to place your business in Austria, including taxation and contribution to social security in Austria in case “on site services in Vienna” are to be conducted!

English (C-Level) / German is an advantage

Project details

• Start: ab sofort
• Duration: 12 Monate
• Remote: hybrid
• Location: Wien, Österreich, AT