GPP Test Manager

Background: Minimum 8+ years of experience working as part of Payments Technology solution at an IT company, in the role of Project Manager / Test Manager / Delivery Manager. Must have played a technical lead or Test Manager role for at least 4 year for a full life cycle of application design and development including participation in initial discussion on requirements


Primary skills:

Test Management with PMP or equivalent certification

Exposure to Payments Technology

Knowledge of Global Payments Processing like SWIFT, ISO20022, Clearing and settlement systems (e.g. RTP, RTGS, ACH, etc)

Should have worked in end-to-end implementation of an IT solution in one of the above Functional areas.


Experience in Payments products like Finastra GPP, FIS OPF, Volante VolPay etc


Specification:

Ability to initiate new project or take over existing project

Work on estimations, planning, scheduling and control

Capable of delivering in a multi-shore model.

People Management

Hands on experience on payment systems and exposure to Payments Hub, Clearing and Settlement, Automated clearing house programs

Hands on experience in Finastra GPP Fusion product testing

Strong Test Management skills with at least 6+ years of PM experience working within a Global (time zone separated) team

Good understanding of Banking domain

Strong understanding of Test Management concepts, SDLC methodologies and Operating models (Agile and Waterfall)

Exposure to HPQC, JIRA, Confluence or equivalent tools

Experience in Test Automation Frameworks & Tools like QTP, LISA, Tosca, Robot framework etc.

Experience in NFR test management, Test Environments setup and management

Managed projects on different technology platforms i.e. Legacy (mainframes) or Open systems (.Net, Java, etc), on different Operating systems (Windows, Unix, Linux)

Expertise in using Microsoft Office Project for creating and maintain project plans and MS Office Tool Suite (including Outlook, PowerPoint and Excel)

Excellent presentations skills, ability to communicate in a clear and concise manner

Ability to deal with ambiguity and define approaches to bring un-focused issues to resolution

Work with Shared Services Organizations

Support RFI / RFP and support the sales process


Responsibilities:

Testing engagement management

IT Test Delivery both Functional and Non-functional

Stakeholder management

Management Reporting

Enable creation of payments technology domain capabilities, both solution offerings and delivery skills

Partner with development managers to ensure projects have a time, cost and delivery plan and deliver high quality software to plan as a result of proactive planning and mitigation of issues

Work closely with Business Analyst to correctly and completely define Business requirements

Stakeholder Management, Scope Management, Risk Monitoring and Mitigation

Project and program level tracking and reporting (including task/ milestone tracking, resourcing, risks and issues, WSR)

Implement software quality assurance initiatives for projects within Payment

Assess the impact of changes on existing business and technology processes as well as other interfacing systems

Adhere to toolsets and procedures and embrace them with their project management skills

Plan and monitor financial budgets, forecasting and metrics to measure project health

Management reporting including creation, collation and publishing of regional and functional dashboards

Creation and maintenance of SharePoint sites

Work with geographically dispersed teams

Co-ordinate development and implementation of project management best practices to improve overall efficiency and productivity of delivery teams