Test Lead

Your career opportunity

Join our Group Business Solutions (GBS) division where we design and sustain IT solutions for financial market securities. Be part of a dynamic collaborative team in a fast-evolving environment shaping the future of financial technology.

Ready to make an impact

We are seeking an experienced Test Lead to steer integration system and end-to-end testing across business functional and technical domains. You will be part of a vibrant squad spread across Belgium France Poland and India united by shared goals and great teamwork.

Your day-to-day mission:

• Ensure detailed and endtoend requirements are structured and fully testable especially in complex areas by guiding their formulation using use cases practices to promote a shiftleft approach and accelerate test cycles.
• Define and lead test strategies by formulating riskbased and contracttesting approaches anticipating interdependencies across components and projects to secure robust validation aligned with Agile practices.
• Perform intake of new initiatives and conduct highlevel assessments in collaboration with roadmap leadership.
• Develop and maintain test plans coordinate environments and manage resource utilisation including offshore teams and work allocation.
• Ensure testing is delivered within quality time and budget targets while actively managing risks.
• Support pre-production and production readiness ensuring a smooth transition into live operations.
• Manage defects effectively ensuring proper assignment prioritisation and followup until resolution.
• Report test progress risks and impediments to relevant stakeholders at all levels.
• Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives within testing communities.
• Mentor junior testers foster a culture of quality and drive improvements in testing practices.
• Ensure your work contributes directly to the robustness and reliability of missioncritical business services helping maintain Euroclears competitive advantage.

What you need to have to succeed in this role:

• Extensive experience in functional and nonfunctional IT testing contributing directly to Business Resilience.
• Strong understanding of business and financial drivers.
• Comprehensive expertise in distributed and mainframe technologies (IBM Mainframe: PL/1 Cobol SQL DB2 MQ CICS JCL VSAM XML) job scheduling tools such as CA7 and monitoring tools including Splunk.
• Good background in testing automated processes with experience in automation tools (e.g. Selenium) considered a plus.
• Familiarity with test management and reporting tools such as Azure DevOps ServiceNow Power BI.
• Test management experience on cross functional multi-platform business resilience critical projects.
• Strong leadership and the assertiveness needed to drive tasks to completion.
• Very good analytical and investigation skills with the ability to structure complex problems and propose solutions.
• Ability to influence stakeholders and operate effectively across diverse teams.
• Strong analytical and problemsolving skills capable of breaking down complex issues.
• Excellent communication skills (verbal written active listening) at all levels including senior management.
• Effective leadership with proven capability in task team and offshore management.
• Ability to work across multiple projects and adapt to evolving priorities.
• Experience supporting Agile practices and methods in testing.
• Strong command of English both written and spoken.

What makes you stand out:

• Experience working within Agile frameworks.
• Strong communication and reporting capabilities.
• Experience designing executable use cases and applying Test-Driven Development (TDD) and Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD).
• Skill in negotiation conflict management and influencing across management levels.
• Understanding of the Euroclear business and SWIFT messaging.
• 7 years of professional testing experience.
• Certification in software testing (e.g. ISTQB Certified Tester) or equivalent.