Group Test Manager / Consultant

Project overview

Group Test Manager / Consultant

For a pilot project in the Digital Euro domain, we are looking for an experienced, hands-on Group Test Manager / Consultant. In this key role, you will coordinate integrated testing activities across a complex stakeholder network, ensuring an aligned, traceable, and executable test strategy at group level.

Quick Facts

• Industry: Banking / Financial Services
• Project: Digital Euro Pilot
• Start: as soon as possible, latest December 1st 2026
• Duration: until September 30th 2027 (option for extension)
• Workload: 4 days a week
• Location: Hybrid / Vienna
• Language: English (business fluent)

Responsibilities

• Definition and maintenance of the Group Test Strategy and Test Concept for the Digital Euro Pilot, including test scope, phases, levels, standards, quality gates and entry/exit criteria.
• Creation of an integrated test plan aligned with programme timelines, entity delivery plans, supplier releases and ECB/DESP testing windows.
• Establishment of governance models, responsibilities and interfaces between Group testing, local project managers, test leads, solution vendors and ECB/NCB counterparts.
• Central coordination of testing across multiple entities, ensuring alignment of plans, commitments and readiness information.
• Translation of separate stakeholder plans and constraints into a unified, executable test approach.
• Coordination of system integration, cross-entity and end-to-end testing, including alignment of test windows, environments, data and resources.
• Ensuring end-to-end traceability from requirements to test cases, execution evidence and acceptance decisions.
• Monitoring local test preparation and execution while maintaining Group-level oversight and escalation of cross-entity dependencies.

Requirements

Framework conditions:

• Senior-level experience in test management, particularly in complex, multi-stakeholder environments (e.g., banking, financial services or large-scale IT programmes).
• Proven track record in orchestrating integrated test approaches, aligning diverse plans and resolving conflicting priorities.
• Strong expertise in test strategy, governance, design principles and coverage models for end-to-end testing.
• Experience in coordinating cross-entity testing, including interface and contract testing (APIs, events, technical connectivity).
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the ability to facilitate alignment and drive decision-making across organizational boundaries.
• Familiarity with regulatory and compliance requirements in financial services (advantageous).
• Willingness to conduct business in Austria, including taxation and social security contributions, if on-site services in Vienna are required.
• Fluency in English (mandatory).
• Remote work possible, with on-site presence in Vienna as required.
• Flexibility regarding contract extension beyond September 2027 is mandatory.

Project details

• Start: asap
• Duration: contract
• Location: Wien, AT