Test Manager

TEST MANAGER (JOB NUMBER: ITO002562)

As the leading European Union bank, and one of the world's largest financial institutions with an uninterrupted presence in the region since 1860, BNP Paribas offers a wide range of financial services for corporate, institutional and private investors spanning corporate and institutional banking, wealth management, asset management and insurance.

We passionately embrace diversity and are committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where all employees are valued and encourage applicants of all backgrounds, including diversity of origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion applicants who may be living with a disability. We have a number of internal employee networks in place to empower our staff to act and challenge the status quo.
- BNP Paribas PRIDE is highly active in favour of the LGBTQIA+ community
- BNP Paribas MixCity which fosters better representation of women at all levels of the organization
- Ability, the mutual aid network for employees with a disability or a disabling or chronic illness
- BNP Paribas CulturAll which celebrates diverse backgrounds

BNP is committed to financing a carbon-neutral economy by 2050. The Group is a founding member of the Net-Zero Banking Alliance and has set up its own Low Carbon Transition Group to support its clients through their energy transitions.

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**Position Purpose**

To provide IT testing services for the various BP2S business units to achieve their respective corporate goals and objectives while adhering to local, regional and global security standards.

The role of the Test Manager sits within the Information Technology team which is part of the Information Technology division of BNP Paribas (2S).

The primary role of the Test Manager is to ensure that all changes deployed meet the client's expectations and that the Service Delivery team can support these changes in the production environment.

The Test Manager is responsible for:

- The definition, execution, monitoring and ongoing improvement of the local test strategy
- Simplify the existing testing process to adopt a more agile approach
- Ensuring alignment to global tools and processes
- Ensuring compliance with local methodologies (both Waterfall and Agile)
- Management of onshore testing resources, and oversee offshore resources
- Development and maintenance of any relevant test processes

The Test Manager will work across all projects, having responsibility for the management, development, and the delivery of testing capability into projects that are managed across all platforms.

They communicate with internal, offshore, and external stakeholders (including business stakeholders in operations, product and coverage, BNP Paribas Territory IT who manage networks and infrastructure, Paris and London branches for global projects, standards, vendors, consultants, suppliers, auditors and occasionally BP2S clients.

**Responsibilities**
- Controlling - keep projects on track by:

- Measuring: checking test progress toward meeting its objectives
- Evaluating: determining the cause of deviations from the plan
- Correcting: Taking corrective actions to address deviations by managing risks and issues
- Achieving the above by defining baselines, tracking test progress, and test status reporting, determining, and taking corrective action
- Stakeholder Management:

- Working with project managers and project team (developers, testers, service delivery, etc.)
- Business partnering
- Working with client and vendors
- Projects deliverables /
- Test Strategy
- Test Plan
- Test Completion reports
- Risk analysis
- Use Azure DevOps (TFS) to create agile project deliverables and track project update
- Team Management
- Provides concise direction and objectives for the team members and evaluates their performance on a periodic basis
- Manage a team of 3+ onsite and 20 offshore testers and functional consultants
- Leads by example, develops team spirit, shares information
- Motivating test team members
- Performance reviews and career plans for team members
- Trains and motivates team members to achieve their career goals
- Promotes initiative and innovation
- Facilitates training, where required, on tools, processes, and procedures
- Implements and enforces new processes and procedures
- Reviews, updates, and enforces existing processes and procedures
- Escalation point for Test related issues
- Ensuring adherence to the policies and procedures to support the achievement of project and department objectives
- Desirable management attributes
- Ability to have a vision to automate and simplify testing
- Build Testing Centre of Excellence
- Lead testing, monitored automation framework and execution
- Ability to adopt the BNP ways and existing environments that are in place
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