Senior Test Manager

Location: Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, de

Company Description

Founded and headquartered in Switzerland, Avaloq is continuously expanding its global footprint with around 2,500 colleagues in 12 countries, and more than 170 clients in 35 countries. We are an industry-leading provider of wealth management technology and services for financial institutions around the world, including private banks and wealth managers, investment managers, as well as retail and neo banks. Our research led approach and continual innovation is powered by the passion and creativity of our colleagues.
We are always looking for talented people to join us on our mission to orchestrate the financial ecosystem and democratize access to wealth management. Avaloq offers the opportunity to work closely with some of the world’s leading financial institutions as we jointly develop and shape careers. Championing a collaborative, supportive and flexible work environment empowers our colleagues to reach their full potential.

Job Description

You own the scope of Incident Fixing deliveries (UPL) and the quality assurance phase of larger releases.

Test Management & Customer Interface

• Manage and coordinate customer test campaigns across all relevant test phases
• Primary responsibility for System Integration Testing (SIT) and coordinate the customer during User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
• Ensure alignment between customer expectations, test objectives, and delivery timelines

Test Planning & Reporting

• Define and maintain comprehensive test plans, test schedules, and entry/exit criteria
• Provide clear, accurate, and timely test reporting to both customer stakeholders and internal management
• Communicate test progress, risks, dependencies, and quality metrics in a transparent manner

Defect & Delivery Coordination

• Monitor defect lifecycles, including defect quality, prioritization, resolution progress, and re-testing
• Coordinate closely with development teams to ensure timely and effective defect resolution
• Ensure defects are tracked, analyzed, and reported with meaningful root-cause insights

Test Strategy & Continuous Improvement

• Continuously assess the current testing landscape and identify improvement opportunities
• Design, implement, and evolve a complete, sustainable, and scalable test approach
• Promote best practices in test management, quality assurance, and risk-based testing

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a Test Manager or in a senior test leadership role
• Strong understanding of SIT, UAT, defect management, and test governance
• Experience working directly with customers and senior stakeholders
• Solid knowledge of test methodologies, quality metrics, and test reporting
• Familiarity with test automation concepts and tools
• Excellent communication, coordination, and problem-solving skills
• Willingness and availability to travel onsite to clients

Additional Information

We realize that managing work life balance is a challenge we all face in our daily lives and in order to support with this we are pleased to offer hybrid and flexible working for most of our Avaloqers to maintain work life balance and still continue our fantastic Avaloq culture in our global offices. 

In Avaloq we are proud to embrace diversity and understand the success of our business is built on the power of different opinions, we are whole heartedly committed to fostering an equal opportunity environment and inclusive culture where you can be your true authentic self. 

We hire, compensate and promote regardless of origin, age, gender identity, sexual orientation or any other fantastic traits that make us all unique, we have done our best to write this advert in an inclusive and neutral way. 

Please be aware that we will not accept speculative CV submissions for any of our roles from recruitment agencies, and any unsolicited candidate submissions will be exempt from any payment expectations.

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