Senior Test Manager - Finance Programme 100% (f/m/d) - (Contract through our external payroll partner with immediate start until 31.03.2028 with possible extension)

At Julius Baer, we celebrate and value the individual qualities you bring, enabling you to be impactful, to be entrepreneurial, to be empowered, and to create value beyond wealth. Let’s shape the future of wealth management together.

YOUR CHALLENGE

• Leads end-to-end testing activities for a large Finance programme, including planning, scheduling, and execution of SIT, UAT, integration testing, and dress rehearsals, ensuring full alignment with the overarching change roadmap timelines and Finance-specific requirements

• Designs and develops comprehensive test cases, scripts, and acceptance criteria in collaboration with business SMEs and IT teams, ensuring full traceability to functional requirements and critical financial controls

• Manages test data and environment readiness, overseeing data anonymisation, provisioning, and environment validation across all stages (DEV to PROD), while ensuring compliance with data privacy standards and system interdependencies

• Coordinates defect management using tools like JIRA, tracks defect resolution, performs root cause analysis, and provides regular quality reporting - including defect trends, open risks, and test progress - to support informed Go/No-Go decisions

• Serves as the central point of contact during testing phase, supports UAT facilitation and sign-off, maintains cutover and rollback documentation, and provides hyper-care assistance to ensure a smooth transition and post-go-live stability

• Guiding business testers through the test process, including trainings in the use of Jira/xRay and creation of test cases

• Deputy of the Test Stream Lead

YOUR PROFILE

• Proven experience in software testing and quality assurance within large-scale IT or transformation projects, ideally in a financial services environment; strong familiarity with system implementation lifecycles (e.g., Agile, Waterfall) and testing best practices

• Extensive hands-on experience in managing end-to-end testing processes, including test planning, test case design, defect management, and execution of various testing types—SIT, UAT, regression, and end-to-end integration testing

• Solid understanding of financial systems and processes, particularly in areas such as Financial and Management Accounting, Treasury or Pricing, prior exposure to core banking platforms like Temenos T24 (Transact) or SAP is highly desirable

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with attention to detail in validating system behaviour against business requirements, identifying gaps, and ensuring traceability from requirements to test coverage and defect resolution

• Excellent coordination and communication abilities, with experience acting as a liaison between business users, IT teams, and project stakeholders; capable of preparing clear test reports, leading testing sessions, supporting UAT, and contributing to Go/No-Go decisions

• Strong Jira and xRay knowledge

• Seniority to represent Finance interest in large scale programmes

• Hands-on experience in delivering projects requirements pragmatically and managing complex dependencies

• Fluency in English is required, proficiency in German is an advantage

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