Senior Test Manager (permanent position)

Job ID: 30403

Welcome to Group Technology, where we pride ourselves on engineering solutions and direct Nordea’s transformation by providing a holistic technological view and structured understanding of the bank, and its surrounding environment to enable the Customer Vision and the Business Strategy.

We are looking for a Senior Test Manager who can drive all the QA activities according to Nordea standard, and is familiar with different types of testing functional, non-functional and also test automation in our BizDevOps setup.

Nordea is a place where traditions meet tomorrow. We're not just a bank, we're a tech employer on a mission to evolve finance securely and responsibly. Together, we impact millions of people’s daily lives by ensuring they can access our solutions anytime, anywhere, while safeguarding their personal data and wealth. Join us in making an impact on the banking industry.

About our team

Master Data Management (MDM) is the business owner and single point of contact for Customer & Counterparty Data, Master Data & Reference Data, External Data Hub. 

We build the bridge between business processes and data management. We focus on simplification and compliance by leverage a single trusted view of high-quality master data across all channels and in all business processes enabling digitalization and the future relationship bank of Nordea Group.

MDM unit is application owner of the two enterprise wide Golden Sources named CCM (Customer & Counterparty Master) and RMD (Reference & Master Data), as well as the centralized repository for external data, External Data Hub.

What you'll be doing

Welcome to the Quality Assurance team in Master Data Management Technology Domain. We add value by providing world class Quality Assurance and Testing for innovative solutions to create great customer experiences. As the Senior Test Manager, you'll play a key role in actively contributing to delivering high quality solutions in the MDM Domain.

Main responsibilities in this role:

• Be responsible for ensuring all QA activities in a large scale release are conducted in an efficient way across Agile Release Train (ART) and compliant with Nordea Test Strategy in a SAFe Agile setup
• Define and implement an efficient test strategy and get alignment with both IT and business stakeholders
• Participate and contribute to ART's planning and execution by coordinating the necessary resources beforehand, producing test plans together with testers and rest of the team, identifying dependencies and aligning test plans across initiatives
• Collaborate with business and SMEs to understand the quality requirement for products
• Create and communicate test plans in advance to ensure availability of involved people and teams
• Oversee the test progress and result, sync regularly to relevant stakeholders. Take actions proactively to ensure all testing activities can complete in the scheduled timeframe
• Work closely with release manager and contribute to release planning, providing feedback and assessment on the overall product quality based on test results, metrics, defect status
• Coach and share knowledge with team members on QA skills and best practices
• Review requirements from testability point of view

The role is based in Poland (Gdańsk, Warsaw) or Sweden (Stockholm).

Who you are

Your background and skills include:

• Knowledge and experience working as test manager with multiple scrum teams in a complex system landscape in a SAFe Agile setup
• Experience in test planning and defining test strategies including E2E testing
• Able to align expectations and drive all types of testing, both functional and non-functional
• Willing to learn and understand product functionalities
• Able to work independently in an organized and structured way, always have a good overview of the status and able to foresee any potential risk and dependencies in order to have good quality control
• A proactive attitude and are a great collaborator
• Experience within Master Data Management is a plus
• Very good English communication skills

What we offer

Collaboration. Ownership. Passion. Courage. These are the values that guide us in how we work and how we make decisions – and that we imagine you share with us.

People are driven by many different factors. For some, it’s to take their career to the next level. For others, it’s to break new ground within their area of expertise – in other words, with us, you will always move forward.

A culture that fosters performance and growth in one of the largest Nordic banks, offering various opportunities to evolve, develop and learn from brilliant colleagues with diverse backgrounds in a vibrant working environment.

Hybrid working model – we believe in the value of bringing people together and at the same time we embrace the freedom of flexibility.

Diversity and inclusion are a natural part of our daily work. We know that an inclusive workplace is a sustainable one. We genuinely believe that our diverse backgrounds, experiences, characteristics and traits make us stronger together. Every day we strive to find new ways to improve diversity and inclusion within our community e.g. we have signed the European Diversity Charters in the countries where we operate to show our commitment and engage with others to continue learning and improving.

If this sounds like you, get in touch!

Next steps

​Submit your application no later than 01/09/2025.

We enable dreams and aspirations for a greater good.

We build relationships. We add a personal touch to everything we do – when advising our customers, collaborating with colleagues, and meeting our potential candidates.

We learn and develop. We take pride in being experts and thinking ahead. We use our expertise to meet our customers’ needs, from the simplest to the most complex. We bring a growth mindset to our work that enables us to focus on a broader perspective in our daily challenges.

We lead change. We are responsible and aware of the impact of our decisions, both for our customers and for our local and global communities. Mindful of our responsibility towards current and future generations, we have made sustainability an integrated part of our business strategy.

We are Nordea. We have a 200-year history of supporting and growing the Nordic economies and our values are deeply rooted in these open, progressive and collaborative societies. As one of the biggest employers in the Nordics, Poland and Estonia, you have excellent opportunities to evolve, develop and move forward with us.

Studies show that members of underrepresented communities don’t apply for jobs unless they tick all the qualification boxes. If this is part of why you hesitate to apply, we would like you to reconsider and give it a chance. Maybe your profile fits our needs much better than you think.

Only for candidates in Sweden: For union information, please contact Finansförbundet at finansforbundet@nordea.se or SACO at SacoNordea@nordea.com.

Only for candidates in Poland: Please include permit for processing personal data in CV as following:

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