Test Manager (Ref : 468)

For one of our clients, an insurance company located in Leudelange, we are looking for a TEST MANAGER.

!!! Position to be filled in 01/2027 !!!

Main missions:

As an Operational Test Manager, you are responsible for the quality of deliverables on your projects.

You intervene in a transversal manner in an agile environment, in close collaboration with all stakeholders involved.

This key role, with a strong impact, combines steering, coordination, and operational expertise.

The operational test manager is not intended to have hierarchical management responsibilities.

Required skills:

1/ Create and maintain test deliverables in collaboration with stakeholders:

• Project test strategy and its test families (unit, integration, end-to-end, acceptance, security, performance, ...)

• Estimate test effort and necessary resources (human, technical, organizational, documentation)

• Test planning consistent with project milestones and stakeholder availability

• Ensure alignment with the test methodology promoted by our client.

2/ Lead, coordinate, and facilitate test preparation and execution within a project

• Identify quality risks and propose mitigation plans in agreement with the project manager and stakeholders

• Supervise the design, execution, and monitoring of test campaigns (manual / automated)

• Specify necessary prerequisites, initiate their implementation, and ensure coordination (data, environments, test tools, ...)

• Ensure the quality of test plans produced by stakeholders to ensure optimal test coverage

• Make the quality of the delivery explicit and measurable

• Coordinate test activities among stakeholders (project manager, development teams, business, infrastructure, architecture, production…)

• Supervise anomaly management, particularly on cross-functional projects (qualification, monitoring, prioritization…)

• Facilitate test campaign preparation and execution for greater efficiency

3/ Produce reports, communicate, and follow up

• Define quality KPIs with stakeholders and monitor them (coverage, quality, anomalies…)

• Produce clear reports for teams and management

• Contribute to production deployment decisions (Go / No Go)

4/ Support and develop skills

• Unite stakeholders around quality issues

• Support stakeholders to ensure the application of good testing practices

• Promote collaboration among key stakeholders (IT, business, architecture, security, production…) to ensure the success of testing activities

Required skills:

1/ Organizational and managerial skills

• Transversal leadership and ability to unite

• Excellent communication with technical and business interlocutors

• Organization skills, rigor, and synthesis spirit

• Ability to evolve in changing and demanding environments

• Excellent ability to explain quality issues to technical, business, and cross-functional teams

• Ability to report alerts and risks analytically and synthetically

2/ Technical skills

• Good knowledge of market test methodologies (ISTQB, Tmap, ...)

• Good knowledge of market methodologies (Agility and project management, ITIL, DevSecOps, etc..)

• Good knowledge of market test management tools

• Understanding of CI/CD test automation issues, deployment pipelines

• Excellent testing analysis knowledge and experience(s)

• Strong analytical, understanding, and structuring skills

3/ Additional assets

• Similar experience in an insurance (preferably), banking, and/or financial company

• Knowledge of the AI ecosystem and practice of tools is a plus

• Knowledge and use of test tools such as: Postman, Swagger, Playwright, Kapptivate, Jira, Xray…

4/ Seniority

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in computer science or related field

• Minimum of 6 years of testing experience, including:

      o 3 years in test management

      o 3 years in testing analysis or execution

• Experience in a complex environment (multi-teams, multi-projects)

• Proficiency in French

• Professional English