Functional Programme Test Manager, £625 per day inside IR35

Project overview

Functional Programme Test Manager, £625 per day inside IR35

3 months rolling, Remote Working

Bench IT require a Functional Test Manager will lead functional test management across a global corporate treasury replatforming programme implementing FIS Quantum and FIS Trax (Payment Hub), integrated through SnapLogic with S/4HANA, 360T and banking partners.

This role owns the functional test lifecycle from strategy and conceptual design through readiness, coordinated execution, governance, reporting and closure. The successful candidate will provide hands-on leadership across System Integration Testing (SIT), Business Functional Testing (BFT), End-to-End (E2E), User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and regression.

Essential

Desirable

• Own and refine the test strategy, stages, test types, risk-based approach and requirements-to-execution traceability methodology.
• Demonstrable test management leadership on large, integrated, multi-vendor programmes.
• Guide and quality-assure scenario catalogues, test cases, templates and scripts produced by the Systems Integrator, ensuring completeness, consistency and fitness for purpose.
• Consolidate test scenarios, cases, plans and execution waves; maintain full RTM traceability and lead final readiness and entry-gate assessments.
• Own the master test schedule and execution calendar, manage cross-stream dependencies, adjust plans in response to defects and chair test coordination meetings.
• End-to-end ownership of SIT, E2E and UAT lifecycles, including readiness, execution governance and closure.
• Strong knowledge of risk-based testing and full RTM traceability from requirements through scenarios, cases and execution evidence.
• Proven defect governance experience, including daily triage, escalation, retesting and regression management.
• Produce structured status reports, KPI dashboards and phase-closure forecasts based on execution progress and defect trends.
• Experience coordinating execution across Systems Integrators, vendors, SMEs and business testers.
• Strong Jira experience, ideally including Zephyr.
• Define entry and exit criteria, lead readiness and closure gates, and provide clear Go/No-Go recommendations to programme leadership.
• Ability to develop meaningful test KPIs, forecast phase closure and present evidence-based Go/No-Go recommendations to senior stakeholders.
• Excellent communication, facilitation and stakeholder-management skills in English.
• Highly desirable
• Testing experience within financial services, ERP-integrated finance environments or payments platforms.
• Corporate treasury knowledge covering areas such as cash management, payments, foreign exchange, hedging and accounting.
• Exposure to FIS Quantum, FIS Trax, SnapLogic, S/4HANA or 360T.
• Experience supporting external audit assurance of test coverage and execution evidence.

Project details

• Start: ASAP
• Duration: 3 months rolling
• Location: Remote Working, UK, GB
• Rate: 78-78 EUR/h