QA LeadTest Manager

Our client in the financial sector is hiring QA Lead/Test Manager
Engagement type: Contract
Work mode: fully onsite

Role Purpose

Owns end-to-end execution of System Integration Testing (SIT) for the UBA Mobile Banking App and holds broader quality-oversight responsibility across the fullprogramme including phases executed by other teams and partnerorganisations.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the Master Test Strategy and keep it current asprogrammeunderstanding evolves.

• Chair daily defect triage; own defect severity and root-cause classification discipline.

• Maintain full traceability from sourcerequirementthrough test case to defect resolution.

• Deliver weekly status reporting with RAG status and top risks to the CTO and Product Owner.

• Lead formal sign-off against Exit Criteria before User Acceptance Testing (UAT) begins.

• Lead UAT execution across business participants from partnerorganisations via a dedicated UAT Coordinator.

• Provide quality oversight ofprogrammephases outside direct execution customer experience review migration performance/load testing security penetration testing compliance checksenvironmentstabilisation and go-live.

• Own selection and ongoing validation of vendor-sourced specialist roles (security architecture and code review performanceDevSecOps).

• Chair a weekly cross-phase coordination sync with all phase owners.

Required Qualifications & Experience

• Proventrack recordleading QA/test management for digital banking fintech or large-scale financial-services platforms.

• Experience with concurrent/continuous testing models testing alongside active development not gated behind a code-freeze milestone.

• Demonstrated ability to own both hands-on execution and cross-team quality oversight simultaneously.

• Experience managing vendor/contractor relationships for specialist technical roles.

Required Skills & Tools

Test management banking/fintech domain knowledge stakeholder communication defect-tracking tooling administration () release governance.