Technical Test Lead - Financial Services STP
HybridKraków, Lesser Poland, Poland or Krakow, Łódź Voivodeship, Republic of Poland
Job Summary
Lead testing strategy and execution for Straight-Through Processing (STP) applications within agile squads, defining test plans, cases, and data aligned with business requirements. Collaborate with developers, business analysts, and solution architects to ensure quality delivery, while implementing automated frameworks and integrating with CI/CD pipelines. Monitor test execution, report defects, and drive timely resolution, ensuring traceability of test cases to requirements and maintaining comprehensive documentation. Contribute to sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives, support production validation, and drive continuous improvement in testing practices and agile KPIs. Ensure compliance with GDPR, CSDR, and ISO standards while fostering knowledge transfer across international teams in Poland, Belgium, and India.
Required Qualifications
- 8-10 years of experience in software testing and quality assurance
- Strong expertise in agile testing methodologies including Scrum, Kanban and SAFe
- Proven experience with test management including planning, execution and defect management
- Hands-on experience with automation tools such as Selenium, Postman, REST Assured, JUnit and TestNG
- Solid understanding of CI/CD integration using Azure DevOps, Jenkins and Git
- Domain knowledge in financial services, particularly STP and SWIFT messaging
- Proficiency with tools including JIRA, Confluence, TestRail, Zephyr and SQL for data validation
- Experience creating test documentation including test plans, test cases and requirements traceability matrices
- Knowledge of performance testing tools such as JMeter or LoadRunner
- Understanding of compliance requirements including GDPR, CSDR and ISO standards
- Fluent English communication skills (mandatory)
Desired Qualifications
- Basic understanding of .NET or Java programming languages (desirable)
- Experience with middleware testing including Kafka or IBM MQ (desirable)
- Familiarity with monitoring tools such as Splunk, Dynatrace or ServiceNow (desirable)
- Awareness of security testing principles including OWASP and vulnerability scanning (desirable)
- French or Dutch language skills (asset)
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