Test Manager for a banking project

Salary: 900–1140 PLN/day on B2B

Work model: Hybrid from Gdynia, Gdańsk, or Warsaw (3 days per week in the office)

Benefits

• Flexible work organization
• Daily use of English in an international work environment
• Scandinavian organizational culture and work-life balance
• Time for additional training financed by Jit
• Regular integration meetings

Project

We are seeking an experienced Senior Test Manager / QA Lead to lead and coordinate quality assurance activities within a large-scale international banking project. You will ensure high-quality deliveries across multiple teams, drive complex testing initiatives, and continuously improve QA processes and best practices in a dynamic Agile environment. Working with stakeholders across countries and disciplines, you will help deliver reliable, scalable, customer-focused solutions.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate QA activities across the Agile Release Train (ART)
• Ensure required types and levels of testing are planned, executed, documented, and reported
• Define, manage, and execute QA and test management activities for functional and non-functional testing
• Drive integration and End-to-End (E2E) testing across multiple Scrum teams
• Collaborate with ART leadership, Product Management, Architects, Release Management, business stakeholders, and Scrum Teams to align testing priorities
• Develop and continuously improve testing strategies, approaches, methodologies, and best practices
• Ensure readiness and availability of test environments, test data, and other critical testing enablers
• Identify testing skill gaps and support team development through coaching and mentoring
• Contribute to release-readiness assessments and provide quality metrics and recommendations for release sign-offs
• Monitor test progress, quality risks, dependencies, and impediments; escalate when necessary
• Ensure sufficient test evidence is delivered before production releases
• Coordinate testing schedules with release and deployment plans
• Improve test automation coverage, KPIs, maintenance, and operational efficiency
• Communicate testing status, quality risks, and improvement initiatives to technical and business stakeholders

Expected competences and knowledge

• Strong financial-sector domain knowledge, preferably in mortgage lending or home financing
• At least 5 years of experience in a QA leadership, Test Manager, or QA Lead role
• Proven experience leading and coaching QA teams of different sizes
• Extensive experience in functional and non-functional testing; system, integration, and E2E testing; test automation initiatives; test environment and test data management; and QA governance and reporting
• Ability to manage testing activities throughout the complete project lifecycle
• Experience creating dashboards, status reports, and executive-level testing and quality presentations
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills
• Understanding of complex legacy system environments

Nice to have

• Knowledge of Spark and Scala
• Experience with DevOps practices and automated CI/CD pipelines
• Experience managing testing activities in a mainframe environment
• Knowledge of AI-driven testing, advanced test automation, and non-functional testing

Technologies

Project technologies

• Java
• Kafka
• C#
• WebLogic
• SQL
• Mainframe technologies: COBOL, ASP

QA and testing tools

• Selenium
• Cypress
• Playwright
• qTest
• Jira
• Power BI