REQ #

17698
Job description

CONNECT TO YOUR OPPORTUNITY

We are looking for talented and diverse Managers who have experience of working seamlessly with the client to implement a testing solution that meets their quality assurance needs. We work with leading clients and vendors across investment and wealth management landscape. You will have the opportunity to drive the test strategy and implementation on both traditional and agile implementations for top tier clients. Working with a range of clients will also provide you with the opportunity to continue developing your senior relationships with industry leaders, and grow your leadership skills. You will also play an important role in leading practice development activities such as: developing new service offerings to take to market and leading on thought leadership; contributing to the management of our business.

Responsibilities will include:

• Collaborate with our investment & wealth management leadership teams, proposition owners and Q&TE leads to develop and implement ‘Go to market’ propositions to attract new clients
• Creation of tailored test strategies and approaches for large, complex or specialised client test delivery
• Planning and managing client test delivery, ensuring the testing meets quality, time and cost objectives
• Providing advice on testing tools and leveraging them effectively within a testing activity
• Reviewing test processes and practices and coaching the team on enhancement opportunities
• Managing diverse teams within an inclusive team culture where people are recognised for their contribution
• Supporting the management of key client stakeholders’ relationships and leading teams of Deloitte and client personnel
• Taking responsibility for budgets (or portions of budgets), client deliverables and billing
• Leading the creation of discussion decks and proposals, and participating in client orals during the client bid process
• Act as a role mode, helping to develop and mentor junior resources
• Contribute to Deloitte’s thought leadership in Q&TE

CONNECT TO YOUR SKILLS AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

To qualify for the role, Managers must have:

• Deep investment or wealth management industry expertise gained in complex client-facing environments, ideally with exposure to the CRD or FNZ technology suites
• Experience in defining test strategies for large and complex IT change programmes within the investment & wealth management industry
• Exceptional communication, presentation, business writing and professional skills, including being able to bridge both technical and business stakeholders
• Experience of building and strengthening key client relationships
• Experience of functional system testing, integration testing, user acceptance testing and non-functional testing including performance and automation
• ISTQB Foundation Level certificate (or equivalent)
• Test management tool expertise (such as JIRA/HP ALM/X-Ray)
• Excellent interpersonal skills and self-driver
• Strong leadership and management skills
• Acute attention to detail
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced and often changeable client environment
• Strong commercial awareness of how change/transformation programmes operates

Additional desirable experience includes:

• A proven track record in a top tier consultancy
• Exposure to additional Investment Management & Wealth industry platforms such as, BlackRock Aladdin, Avaloq, SS&C and Sonata (or equivalent)
• Exposure to test automation tools
• Ability to design and implement test automation frameworks
• ISTQB Certified Agile Tester qualification (or equivalent)
• Experience in administering a test management tool (e.g. ALM, Xray for Jira, Zephyr)

Responsibilities will include:

• Collaborate with our investment & wealth management leadership teams, proposition owners and Q&TE leads to develop and implement ‘Go to market’ propositions to attract new clients
• Creation of tailored test strategies and approaches for large, complex or specialised client test delivery
• Planning and managing client test delivery, ensuring the testing meets quality, time and cost objectives
• Providing advice on testing tools and leveraging them effectively within a testing activity
• Reviewing test processes and practices and coaching the team on enhancement opportunities
• Managing diverse teams within an inclusive team culture where people are recognised for their contribution
• Supporting the management of key client stakeholders’ relationships and leading teams of Deloitte and client personnel
• Taking responsibility for budgets (or portions of budgets), client deliverables and billing
• Leading the creation of discussion decks and proposals, and participating in client orals during the client bid process
• Act as a role mode, helping to develop and mentor junior resources
• Contribute to Deloitte’s thought leadership in Q&T

To qualify for the role, Managers must have:

• Deep investment or wealth management industry expertise gained in complex client-facing environments, ideally with exposure to the CRD or FNZ technology suites
• Experience in defining test strategies for large and complex IT change programmes within the investment & wealth management industry
• Exceptional communication, presentation, business writing and professional skills, including being able to bridge both technical and business stakeholders
• Experience of building and strengthening key client relationships
• Experience of functional system testing, integration testing, user acceptance testing and non-functional testing including performance and automation
• ISTQB Foundation Level certificate (or equivalent)
• Test management tool expertise (such as JIRA/HP ALM/X-Ray)
• Excellent interpersonal skills and self-driver
• Strong leadership and management skills
• Acute attention to detail
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced and often changeable client environment
• Strong commercial awareness of how change/transformation programmes operate