Test Manager - IPA Hedge Accounting @ ING Hubs Romania

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ING Hubs Romania offers 130 services in software development, data management, non-financial risk & compliance, audit, and retail operations to 24 ING units worldwide, with the help of over 1700 high-performing engineers, risk, and operations professionals. 

We started out in 2015 as ING’s software development hub – a distinct entity from ING Bank Romania – then steadily expanded our range to include more services and competencies. 

Now we provide borderless services with bank-wide capabilities and operate from two locations: Bucharest and Cluj-Napoca. 

Our tech capabilities remain the core of our business, with more than 1500 colleagues active in Data Management, Touchpoint Channels & Integration, Core Banking, and Global Products. 

We enjoy a flexible way of working and a highly collaborative environment, where fair and constructive feedback is encouraged.  

For us, impact isn't a perk. It's the driver of our work. 

We are guided and rewarded by a shared desire to make the world a better place, one innovative solution at a time. Our colleagues make it their job to do impactful things and they love doing it in good company. Do you?  

The Mission

Financial Markets (FM) is the Bank’s gateway to the professional markets around the world. Our primary function is to service the needs of ING’s clients with products, services and guidance. FM aims to be a significant player in our market leader and challenger markets, with an additional presence in all the major international markets and specialist expertise in selected emerging markets and products.

Within FM, in Competitive Pricing area, we have ING Pricing Architecture (IPA) asset, which consists of multiple components that enable real-time and batch calculations of financial risk metrics and simulations (e.g. XVA, PFE, Value at Risk, Expected Shortfall, Bilateral Margining, pre-deal derivatives Pricing) which are driven by new banking regulations as well as advanced Risk analysis on the derivative product portfolio of Financial Markets (interest rates, credits, foreign exchange). This asset is in the heart of the IT landscape for our global dealing rooms and risk managers in Asia, Europe and Americas, with aprox. 30 scrum teams spread across 4 locations (Amsterdam, Brussels, Bucharest and Singapore), cooperating to evolve it towards target ING Financial Markets IT vision.

IPA HA (HedgeAccounting) is a dedicated squad responsible for in-house implementation of the HedgeAccounting module, tailor built for Group treasury department in ING as the main stakeholder.

As Test Manager you will work closely with a variety of stakeholders, like IT teams, Business users, Product Owners, Release Managers and Production Support teams, in order to align and streamline on test governance, planning and execution for the different technical and functional deliveries. Our team is driven by a customer perspective and fosters a diverse and contemporary workplace.

Your day to day

Even if you’ll start your day from the comfort of your home or drink your morning coffee in our office’s garden, your day will be quite similar when comes to tasks. The following will be the main responsibilities of the role:

• Define the test strategy and supporting test phases and test gates

• Manage test execution, reporting and sign-offs gathering from stakeholders

• Identify and report test impediments, key teams dependencies and issues preventing the execution of the test plan under the bigger delivery plan

• Manage stakeholders (business and IT) during release cycles with regards to testing activities (including escalations and impediment resolution)

• Collaborate closely with the Release Manager to ensure testing is executed timely within the release preparations

• Coordinate the delivery of the testing activities and testing initiatives (either internal or outsourced)

• Manage the defects tracking and remediation / resolution; coordinate cross teams for retest and validations

• Collaborate closely with the Engineering team to improve test automation across the system landscape (incl. definition of test automation strategy)

• Support efficient change by providing impactful analysis on cross domain, end-to-end, complex environments

• Plan and execute test phases for large programs deliveries (migrations, integrations, new feature development)

• Own the test environments and manage their overall state (environment availability, ensure needed component versions deployed, ensure needed test data loaded)

• Synchronize multiple testing initiatives onto the same environments

• Identify extra test environment needs and facilitate their setup/delivery

• Stimulate a continuous delivery culture in terms of services and working conditions

What you’ll bring to the team

• Experience:

  • 7+ years of Testing/Quality Assurance / Test Automation experience

  • 2+ years of Test Management experience

• Tech stack/ knowledge:

  • Mandatory:

    • Experience with Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery

    • Experience with BDD and test automation frameworks (Cucumber, Selenium, Playwright, Karate)

    • Experience with relational databases (Oracle or MS SQL Server)

    • Experience with API testing and tooling (Postman and the like)

    • Familiarity with source control, CI/CD and documentation tools. On our side we are using Azure DevOps, Git, Maven and Confluence

    • Prior experience in test strategy definition and execution

    • Working knowledge of Linux

    • Ability to define and document processes for test environments and data management

    • Strong analytical skills, proactivity, and ability to work in cross-border international teams

    • Excellent leadership and communication skills to manage cross-functional teams

  • Nice to have:

    • Experience in the Financial Markets domain or statistical analysis

    • Experience with large system migrations (like major versions upgrades)

    • ISTQB certification

    • Experience or affinity with IT Security concepts

• Foreign languages: English (excellent level)

• Education: Completed education at Bachelor/Master level

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