Agile Test Manager

For our client, a private bank in Zurich, we are looking forward for an Agile Test Manager.

As an embedded software tester / Test Manager , you will be part of a software development team following Agile (SAFe) practices. You will work closely with your team and collaborate with other teams (developers, product owners, scrum masters and business representatives) to ensure smooth testing of all developed features/story‘s within a certain iteration / sprint. You will be the QA Champion for your team, driving all test activities during the Sprint, Product Increment and during release testing phases.

- Leading tester and test manager in Sprint testing activities as part of the development team.
- Ensuring optimal quality at various test stages (Unit, System, and System Integration, End to End testing, coordination) through close collaboration with different team members and stakeholders, both inside and outside of the project or team.
- Leading all testing activities and coordination during User Acceptance Testing phases.
- Execute all levels of testing (System, Integration, and Regression).
- Identify, analyze and create test scenarios and write test cases for the product under test.
- Requirements management and linking requirements to tests.
- Log, track, and communicate defects to development teams for timely resolution.
- Utilize the appropriate testing tools

VORAUSSETZUNGEN:

- Testing Skills, Test Management, Requirements engineering
- A minimum of 3 years experience in Software Quality Assurance, and Test analysis.
- Experience in Testcase creation, test planning, management and execution within an agile development team
- Experience in business requirements analysis and test case design. Banking experience or relevant financial experience (especially in Wealth Management) would be a big plus.
- In depth knowledge of Jira
- Experience with Test automation and Automation Frameworks, designing and writing test automation scripts would be beneficial.
- Advanced knowledge with Agile Methodologies (ideally SAFe), and Agile tools (experience with Xray or other test management