Test and Quality Assurance Manager

**Our opportunity**

Would you like to start your professional career in a multinational environment?

If you’re someone who wants to influence your own development, if you are passionate about “Quality Assurance and Testing”, who wants to be part of a young and motivated team and help us to make a difference, this is your opportunity

**Your role**

**As a**
**Test and Quality Assurance Manager**
**your main responsibilities will involve**
- Overall responsibility for all aspects related to Testing and Quality assurance of Projects and BAU initiatives within IAA (Investment Administration & Accounting).
- Understand and estimate the testing effort by analyzing the requirements of project.
- Estimate and obtain management support for the time, resources and budget required to perform the testing.
- Develop the test concept and testing strategy for the scope for testing with tasks, dependencies and participants required to mitigate the risks to system quality.
- Document, implement, monitor, and enforce all applicable processes for testing as per standards defined by the organization.
- Keep track of the new requirements / change in requirements of the Project with impact to end-to-end testing and to test plan.
- Track, prepare and present the report of testing activities like UAT report, test case coverage, required resources, defects discovered and their status, performance baselines etc.
- Escalate the issues about project requirements (Software, Hardware, Resources) to Project Manager / Sr. Test Manager.
- Organize the status meetings and regularly send the status Reports to relevant stakeholders
- Arrange the Hardware and software requirement for the Test Setup.
- Assign task to all the Testing Team members and ensure that all of them have sufficient work in the project.
- Ensure content and structure of all Testing documents / artifacts is documented and maintained.
- Ensure the timely delivery of different testing milestones.
- Ensure that SOX and audit requirements are fully met during Test Management activities
- Deputies “Test and Release manager”
- Contribute to maintain the “Test manager framework” up-to date and enforce the usage

**You will build relationships with**:

- IAA users for Investment Applications related topics (SAP FSCM, BW, BI, Market Data solutions, Swift solutions & interfaces)
- IAA - Multiple “Service Owners” and “Capability owners”
- IAA - CRM, Risk and Compliance
- IAA - Project delivery team
- IAA-COEs (Accounting and Operation teams)
- Group IT Teams
- External IT suppliers (e.g., SAP, Bloomberg) and consulting companies

**Your Skills and Experience**

**As a**
**Test and Quality Assurance Manager**
**your skills and qualifications will ideally include**:

- Bachelor/master’s degree in computer science/Finance or equivalent
- Minimum 3 years of experience in Test management is mandatory.
- ISTQB or equivalent certification in Testing area is mandatory.
- Strong Communication skills in written and spoken English are mandatory
- Expert of HPALM/ JIRA or any other equivalent testing tool is mandatory
- Having experience in Finance is an advantage.
- Experience in test automation is nice to have.
- Proven ability to lead and work with multi-cultural project teams and facilitating work shops
- Ability to work with multi-cultural project teams and facilitating workshops with stakeholders
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
- Spanish language skills are a plus

Technical Skills:

- HPALM scripting is highly desirable.
- SAP FSCM knowledge is nice to have
- MS Project, MS Office, and MS Access
- Basic knowledge of programming language.

Technical Knowledge:

- Strong knowledge about testing methodology is mandatory
- Strong knowledge about software development life cycles
- Knowledge about change management methodology is mandatory.
- Strong Business Analyst skills (e.g., analytical skills, requirement engineering)
- Basic knowledge about Finance and investment instruments is nice to have
- Knowledge of IT-processes is required
- Basic knowledge of SAP-FSCM is an advantage but not mandatory.

**Additional Information**

**As well as a competitive salary and a yearly bonus we offer benefits package which includes**:

- Option to **work remotely within Spain** even up to 80% - you choose
- Flexible working hours
- Wide range of internal and external trainings
- Free English, German and Spanish classes depending on the needs
- Ticket restaurant
- Life Insurance
- Pension Plan - after 1 year in the company
- Referral bonus if you bring other talented people like you
- Special banking and insurance conditions
- Exclusive Employees discounts

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**Who we are**

Looking for a challenging and inspiring work environment where you can make a difference? At Zurich millions of individuals and businesses place their trust in our products and services every day. Our 53,000 employees worldwide form the basis of our success, enabling, businesses and