Core Banking Test Lead

Project description

A leading bank in Australia is undertaking a major Core Banking transformation and customer migration program. We are looking for a Senior Core Banking Migration Functional Test Lead with proven experience in large-scale banking transformation and migration programs, covering functional testing, customer and data migration validation, reconciliation, end-to-end integration testing, and cutover and rehearsal testing.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end functional testing for Core Banking transformation and migration, ensuring critical banking processes and customer journeys are validated.
• Develop and execute comprehensive Test Strategies, Test Plans, Quality Gates, Dashboards, and Governance Reporting.
• Lead functional validation of Core Banking products, processes, business rules, customer journeys, and transactional workflows.
• Lead customer and data migration testing, including reconciliation, validation, completeness, accuracy, and functional verification of migrated data.
• Coordinate end-to-end integration testing across Core Banking platforms and associated upstream and downstream applications.
• Lead cutover, migration rehearsal, dress rehearsal, and production verification testing, ensuring business-critical scenarios are successfully validated.
• Manage System Testing (ST), SIT, UAT, Regression Testing, and Production Verification across multiple releases and migration events.
• Define and manage business-critical test scenarios to validate customer, account, product, transaction, and integration outcomes following migration.
• Identify, track, and mitigate testing risks, issues, dependencies, and defects across multiple workstreams.
• Ensure effective defect governance through defect triage, prioritisation, reporting, escalation, and resolution management.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders, product teams, technology teams, vendors, migration teams, and program leadership to achieve quality objectives.
• Coordinate testing across multiple delivery streams, ensuring alignment of test milestones, dependencies, migration activities, and release schedules.
• Provide regular status reporting, quality assessments, dashboards, test metrics, risks, and quality gate recommendations to program leadership.
• Lead and coordinate cross-functional test teams to ensure successful execution of transformation and migration testing.

SKILLS

Must have

• 10+ years of Test Management/Test Lead experience, including leadership of complex transformation and migration testing programs.
• Proven experience as a Senior Test Lead delivering large-scale Core Banking transformation and migration programs within the Banking or Financial Services domain.
• Strong Core Banking functional testing experience covering banking products, customer journeys, business processes, transactions, and system integrations.
• Proven experience in large-scale customer migration and data migration testing, including reconciliation, validation, completeness, accuracy, and post-migration functional verification.
• Strong experience leading end-to-end integration testing across Core Banking platforms and associated upstream and downstream systems.
• Proven experience planning and executing migration rehearsals, cutover testing, dress rehearsals, and production verification activities.
• Ability to define risk-based functional test coverage for critical customer, account, product, transaction, and migration scenarios.
• Demonstrated ability to develop and execute Test Strategies, Test Plans, Quality Gate Assessments, Dashboards, and Governance Reporting.
• Extensive experience in Defect Management, Risk Management, Issue Management, and Dependency Management across large and complex programs.
• Proven experience managing ST, SIT, UAT, Regression Testing, Production Verification, and defect governance.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and vendor management capability, with the ability to work effectively across business, technology, migration, delivery, and third-party teams.
• Ability to coordinate testing across multiple workstreams and migration waves, ensuring alignment of dependencies, risks, milestones, cutover activities, and quality gates.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to assess complex functional, integration, reconciliation, and migration defects.
• Excellent communication, leadership, and program coordination skills, with experience leading large cross-functional testing teams.
• Banking or Financial Services experience is mandatory, with proven experience in Core Banking migration or transformation programs.

Nice to have

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