Senior Test Manager - Core Banking & Pricing System Integration 100% (f/m/d) - (Contract through our external payroll partner with immediate start until 31.12.2027, possible extension)

Location: Zurich

Time Type: Full time

Job Description

At Julius Baer, we celebrate and value the individual qualities you bring, enabling you to be impactful, to be entrepreneurial, to be empowered, and to create value beyond wealth. Let’s shape the future of wealth management together.

We are seeking a Senior Test Manager to support the integration of an inhouse built pricing processing tool into a new core banking system. In this role, you will be responsible for planning, coordinating, and overseeing all testing activities to ensure software quality, compliance, and successful delivery within project timelines.

YOUR CHALLENGE

• Plans, designs, and oversees software testing activities across the development lifecycle
• Defines test strategies, coordinates test environments and ensures defect tracking
• Collaborates with development, business analysts, and project managers to align testing with project goals
• Manages functional, regression, and none-functional testing processes, ensures compliance with quality standards, regulatory requirements, and best practices
• Coordinates test environment use
• Drives test automation coverage and capability for automation regression testing
• Hands-on on test execution in hot testing phases
• Leads and mentors test team members promoting continuous improvement in test efficiency and coverage

YOUR PROFILE

• Proven experience as a Senior Test Manager or Senior Testing Lead in complex IT projects (min. 5 years) and preferred large core banking transformation projects
• Excellent knowledge of pricing in the banking sector incl. experience with testing of core banking fee engines (e.g. HOST/T24/Avaloq) or/and testing of satellites feeding into the fee engines
• Strong understanding of software testing methodologies (agile, waterfall) and test management tools (e.g., JIRA, HP ALM)
• Experience with test automation frameworks, in particular Selenium, CI/CD integration, and performance testing tools
• Java development experience incl. use of Claude Code
• Relevant certifications such as ISTQB Advanced Level, PMP, or Agile Testing are highly desirable
• Understanding of DevOps concepts such as CI/CD
• Good communication skills, problem solving, social interaction & cross-cultural mindset, empathy & can-do spirit
• Fast learner and understanding of business context
• You take pride of your work and strive to lead by example
• Able to communicate with business and technical stakeholders
• Fluency in English (verbal/written)
• Tech Stack: Java, Spring Boot, SQL (Oracle), React/Angular, JavaScript, Typescript, Kubernetes (PKS) and Virtual Machines, Streaming using Kafka, Avro, Open API, UML

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