Senior Qa Lead

Job ID: 20540 
 

Looking for an exciting career opportunity? Come join our Payments Technology team and be part of building a state of the art Payments service!

Payments is at the centre of all our lives, from mobile paying your friend for last night’s dinner, to ensuring salary and pension payments for other companies, to executing advanced cross-border corporate payments enabling goods and services around the globe to change hands. This is an exciting time for payments globally and in the Nordics where companies like Nordea as well as the markets and regulators are moving at pace together to make payments simpler, faster and safer. Customer and payment volumes are growing in Nordea as we acquire businesses and continue to develop our Open Banking offering, so this is a great time to join an expanding team.

We are looking for you to bring your expertise and energy to all parts of the lifecycle across run and change with opportunities to work initially as an RTE, scrum master, architect, analyst, developer, test automation engineer or maintenance engineer in our BizDevOps setup. If you are looking for a diverse and rewarding role in a growth area then apply today to join our team! 

We are looking for Senior IT Test Manager who can drive all the QA activities according to Nordea standard, and is familiar with different types of testing functional, non-functional and also test automation. 

We are building a strong quality assurance culture within our business unit Business & Institutional Technology (BIT). You are invited to become a vital part of our team that supports technology solutions across all functions within Business Banking and Large Corporates & Institutions at Nordea.

At Nordea, we know our customers’ needs are changing – and we’re deeply committed to meeting them with the financial solutions of tomorrow. We’re creating an agile environment where we’re harnessing the power of technology – one where you can make an impact. So bring your skills, ideas and unique background. With us, you’ll find plenty of opportunities to grow and make your mark on something bigger.  

Who we are

Business & Institutional Technology (BIT) designs, develops, implements and supports technology solutions across all functions within Business Banking and Large Corporates & Institutions at Nordea. We enable our Business Areas to deliver services to our end customers and satisfy the regulatory needs while catering for availability, resiliency, performance and usability.

About this opportunity

Welcome to the Quality Assurance team in Business & Institutional Technology. We add value by providing world class Quality Assurance and Testing for innovative solutions to create great customer experiences. As a Senior QA Lead you play a key role in actively contributing to the delivering qualitive solutions for the Payments domain. 

What you’ll be doing:

• Responsible for ensuring all QA activities across Agile Release Trains (ART) are conducted in an efficient way and compliant with Nordea Test Strategy. Facilitate and improve test process in the ART, ensure the teams operate within its boundaries
• Defining and implementing an efficient test strategy and get alignment with both IT and business stakeholders  
• Participate and contribute to ART's planning and execution by coordinating the necessary resources beforehand, producing test plans together with testers and rest of the team, identifying dependencies and aligning test plans across initiatives
• Collaborate with business and SMEs to understand the quality requirement for products,
• Create and communicate test plans, such as E2E and UAT in advance to ensure availability of involved people and teams 
• Representing Nordea QA in external committees and be the contact point for testing with other banks and central banks
• Oversee the test progress and result, sync regularly to relevant stakeholders. Take actions proactively to ensure all testing activities can complete in the scheduled timeframe
• Work closely with release manager and contribute to release planning, providing feedback and assessment on the overall product quality based on test results, metrics, defect status
• Coach and share knowledge with team members on QA skills and best practices
• Review requirements from testability point of view

The role is based in Helsinki, Finland.
 

Who you are

Collaboration. Ownership. Passion. Courage. These are the values that guide us in being at our best – and that we imagine you share with us.

To succeed in this role, we believe that you:

• Have knowledge and experience working as test manager with scrum team(s), preferred under SAFe in a complex system landscape and are able to think and manage work in an agile way.
• Have experience in test planning and defining test strategies, ability to drive all the QA practices according to Nordea Test Strategy and Nordea Test Framework.
• Are able to align expectations and drive all types of testing, both functional and non-functional. For example regression test, smoke test, integration test, acceptance test, performance test, etc
• Are willing to learn and understand product functionalities, and provide hands on support on test related matters  
• Ae able to work in an organized and structured way, always have a good overview on the status and able to foresee any potential risk and dependencies in order to have good quality control 
• Have strong skills in driving issues, work independently and follow-up issues with e.g. external vendors and other Nordea teams. Be a true problem solver.
• Have a highly proactive attitude and feel committed and engaged for high quality deliveries
• Are easy to collaborate and have good English communication skills

If this sounds like you, get in touch!

Next steps
Submit your application no later than 30/01/2023. For more information, you’re welcome to contact Sachin Nerpagare at sachin.nerpagare@nordea.com.
At Nordea, we know that an inclusive workplace is a sustainable workplace. We deeply believe that our diverse backgrounds, experiences, characteristics and traits make us better at serving customers and communities. So please come as you are.

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