Job Summary:
Lead release management and testing coordination activities for transformation initiatives and non-core application changes, ensuring solutions are thoroughly tested, validated, and ready for deployment. The role is responsible for driving testing governance, release readiness, defect management, and post-release stabilization to ensure successful and controlled delivery of business and technology changes.
Job Responsibilities:
- Lead release management and testing activities for assigned projects and system enhancements.
- Develop and maintain test plans, ensuring alignment with business requirements and project timelines.
- Oversee functional, integration, user acceptance, regression, and non-functional testing activities.
- Assess release readiness and provide deployment recommendations based on testing outcomes and risk assessments.
- Manage the defect lifecycle, including prioritization, escalation, retesting, and closure validation.
- Identify and communicate release risks, testing gaps, and unresolved issues to management.
Job Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Business Administration, or a related field.
- Advanced degree or executive education in Release Management, Testing Governance, Quality Assurance, Technology Delivery, Project Management, or Digital Transformation is preferred.
- For Manager level: 6–8 years of relevant experience in release management, software testing, functional testing, UAT coordination, defect management, technology delivery, system implementation, quality assurance, banking operations or transformation control.
- For Senior Manager level: 8–10+ years of relevant experience, with exposure to complex release cycles, testing governance, defect lifecycle management, IT/business coordination and release readiness activities.
- Banking or financial services experience is strongly preferred, with proven exposure to non-core application releases, testing governance, test planning, defect lifecycle management, IT/business coordination, release readiness, and post-release stabilization.
Preferred Certifications:
- ISTQB Advanced / Expert, ITIL Foundation or ITIL Managing Professional, Agile / Scrum, PMP, COBIT, Test Automation certification or equivalent certification.
