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A leading European financial institution is looking for an experienced Test Lead to join a large-scale system implementation programme in the post-trade and transaction reporting space. You will take end-to-end ownership of the test strategy across a vendor-led delivery, working at the intersection of technology, operations, compliance, and regulatory change.
Job Responsibility
Define and own the test strategy, approach, and governance framework for a complex, multi-workstream programme
Design entry and exit criteria, defect severity definitions, and escalation models
Align vendor testing activities with internal IT and business testing tracks
Design clear governance structures, including RACI matrices, decision flows, and exception handling processes
Translate regulatory and business requirements, including reporting obligations such as EMIR lifecycle events, UTIs, valuations, and reconciliations, into concrete, traceable test scenarios
Work closely with Operations and Compliance to ensure readiness for regulatory sign-off
Plan and manage testing across multiple teams and locations
Drive risk-based reporting to senior stakeholders
Lead defect triage with prioritisation grounded in regulatory and operational risk
Lead go-live readiness assessments
Support post-go-live validation
Ensure a clean, controlled handover to BAU
Requirements
Proven experience as a Test Lead on large-scale system implementations
Hands-on background in financial markets, post-trade, or transaction reporting
Strong knowledge of trade lifecycle events and regulatory-driven change (EMIR, MiFIR, SFTR or similar)
Experience managing testing in vendor-led environments, on-premise or SaaS
Ability to translate regulatory and business requirements into structured test scenarios
Confident stakeholder manager, comfortable engaging at senior level
Nice to have
Experience with Broadridge transaction reporting platforms