Workload: Full time hours Setup: Freelance (Daily Rate / Limited Company / Umbrella / Sole Trader) Sponsorship Not Provided

Location:
Remote with occasional travel to Vienna We are seeking a Senior Test Manager to lead and coordinate enterprise-wide testing activities for a large-scale Digital Euro and payments transformation programme. The role requires deep expertise in banking payments, ECB testing frameworks, and complex multi-stakeholder programme delivery.

Key Responsibilities
- Define and maintain the overall Test Strategy, Test Concept and integrated Test Master Plan.
- Coordinate System Integration Testing (SIT), End-to-End Testing (E2E), User Acceptance Testing (UAT), non-functional testing and operational readiness activities.
- Lead test governance, quality gates, defect management, reporting and go/no-go recommendations.
- Manage testing across APIs, event-driven architectures, payment platforms, core banking systems and ECB/DESP integrations.
- Drive requirements traceability, test evidence management and audit-ready documentation.




- Coordinate testing activities across multiple entities, suppliers, business teams and external stakeholders.
- Present testing status, risks and readiness assessments to senior programme governance forums. Must-Have

Skills:
- Extensive Test Management experience within banking, payments or financial services.
- Strong Digital Euro, CBDC or Digital Payments programme experience.
- Previous involvement in ECB testing, Digital Euro initiatives or central bank programmes.
- Expertise in SIT, E2E, UAT, regression, operational readiness and defect management.
- Strong knowledge of REST APIs, OpenAPI standards, integration testing and transaction processing environments.
- Experience managing large-scale, multi-vendor, cross-entity testing programmes. Nice-to-Have:
- Experience with digital wallets or multi-party payment ecosystems.
- Knowledge of scheme certification or external regulatory validation processes.

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