About the Role
Tezza Business Solutions Ltd is seeking an experienced QA Lead/Test Manager to own quality execution and oversight for a large-scale digital banking programme. This role combines hands-on test management with strategic quality leadership, requiring proven expertise in fintech environments and the ability to lead complex, concurrent testing initiatives across multiple teams and partner organisations.
Key Responsibilities- Develop and maintain the Master Test Strategy, ensuring alignment with evolving programme requirements
- Chair daily defect triage sessions, establishing severity classification and root-cause analysis discipline
- Maintain full traceability from requirements through test cases to defect resolution
- Deliver weekly status reports with RAG (Red-Amber-Green) status and risk assessments to CTO and Product Owner
- Lead formal sign-off against Exit Criteria before User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
- Oversee UAT execution across business participants from partner organisations
- Provide quality oversight across all programme phases including customer experience, migration, performance testing, security penetration testing, compliance checks, and go-live
- Select and validate vendor-sourced specialist roles in security, architecture, performance, and DevSecOps
- Chair weekly cross-phase coordination synchronisation with all phase owners
- Proven track record leading QA/test management for digital banking, fintech, or large-scale financial-services platforms
- Experience with concurrent/continuous testing models alongside active development
- Demonstrated ability to manage both hands-on execution and cross-team quality oversight simultaneously
- Experience managing vendor and contractor relationships for specialist technical roles
- Strong proficiency with test management and defect-tracking tooling (e.g. Jira)
- Expert-level banking/fintech domain knowledge and stakeholder communication skills