Senior Test Manager

Job ID: 26298 

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 as Senior 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  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! 

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

Payments and Financial Transactions Technology Service Area designs, develops, tests, implements and supports Payments solutions across all of 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 Nordic Payments Technology Domain. We add value by providing world class Quality Assurance and Testing for innovative solutions to create great customer experiences. As a Senior Test Manager you play a key role in actively contributing to delivering high quality solutions in the Payments Domain. 

 
What you’ll be doing:

• Responsible for ensuring all QA activities in a large scale release are conducted in an efficient way across Agile Release Trains (ART) and compliant with Nordea Test Strategy in a SAFe Agile setup
• 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. We imagine that you enjoy learning and are excited about bringing your ideas to the table. You’re dependable, willing to speak up – even when it’s difficult – and committed to empowering others.
 
To succeed in this role, we believe that you:

• Have knowledge and experience working as test manager with multiple scrum teams in a complex system landscape in a SAFe Agile setup
• Have experience in test planning and defining test strategies including E2E testing
• Are able to align expectations and drive all types of testing, both functional and non-functional
• Are willing to learn and understand product functionalities 
• Are able to work independently in an organized and structured way, always have a good overview of the status and able to foresee any potential risk and dependencies in order to have good quality control 
• Have a proactive attitude and are a great collaborator 
• Have experience within Payments or Financial industry is a plus
• Have good English communication skills
   

People are driven by many different factors. For some, it’s to take their career to the next level. For others, it’s to break new ground within their area of expertise – in other words, with us, you will always move forward.

A culture that fosters performance and growth in one of the largest Nordic banks, offering various opportunities to evolve, develop and learn from brilliant colleagues with diverse backgrounds in a vibrant working environment.

Hybrid working model – we believe in the value of bringing people together and at the same time we embrace the freedom of flexibility. 

Diversity and inclusion are a natural part of our daily work. We know that an inclusive workplace is a sustainable one. We genuinely believe that our diverse backgrounds, experiences, characteristics and traits make us stronger together. Every day we strive to find new ways to improve diversity and inclusion within our community e.g. we have signed the European Diversity Charters in the countries where we operate to show our commitment and engage with others to continue learning and improving.

If this sounds like you, get in touch!

Next Steps

Submit your application no later than 10/01/2024. For more information, contact Sami Kaltala at sami.kaltala@nordea.com.

We enable dreams and aspirations for a greater good.
 

We build relationships. We add a personal touch to everything we do – when advising our customers, collaborating with colleagues, and meeting our potential candidates.

We learn and develop. We take pride in being experts and thinking ahead. We use our expertise to meet our customers’ needs, from the simplest to the most complex. We bring a growth mindset to our work that enables us to focus on a broader perspective in our daily challenges. 

We lead change. We are responsible and aware of the impact of our decisions, both for our customers and for our local and global communities. Mindful of our responsibility towards current and future generations, we have made sustainability an integrated part of our business strategy. 

We are Nordea. We have a 200-year history of supporting and growing the Nordic economies and our values are deeply rooted in these open, progressive and collaborative societies. As one of the biggest employers in the Nordics, Poland and Estonia, you have excellent opportunities to evolve, develop and move forward with us. 

Studies show that members of underrepresented communities don’t apply for jobs unless they tick all the qualification boxes. If this is part of why you hesitate to apply, we would like you to reconsider and give it a chance. Maybe your profile fits our needs much better than you think."

If you are an external consultant interested in this role and wish to apply please contact the hiring people leader for separate instruction on how to apply.

A security clearance will be performed for the person selected for this position.