Hybrid Test & Release Manager — Brussels

Next Ventures; Brussel Hoofdstad; Hybrid; EUR 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Next Venturers in Brussels is seeking an experienced Test and Release Manager to lead end-to-end testing and release governance for D-FMI and related innovations. You will act as the bridge between product, engineering, operations, security, risk, and external partners, defining test strategy, quality governance, release readiness and deployment planning in a fast-paced agile environment.

Core responsibilities include coordinating test plans, ensuring testability of requirements, managing

Qualifications

• Proven experience in software testing, quality assurance, release management or comparable role in financial services or regulated environment.
• Strong understanding of test-management practices, including test strategy, risk-based testing, defect management, traceability, evidence and quality reporting.
• Experience coordinating complex testing and releases across multiple teams, systems, environments and external partners.
• Understanding of software delivery lifecycles, Agile Scrum, DevOps and CI/CD practices.
• Experience with functional, integration, end-to-end, regression, user-acceptance and non-functional testing.
• Experience with release calendars, deployment planning, readiness assessments, risk management and post-implementation reviews.
• Ability to translate technical dependencies and quality risks into business impact and clear communications.
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication, facilitation and presentation skills.
• Fluent in English.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain the overall test strategy, quality standards and governance across testing.
• Build integrated test plans aligned with delivery and release roadmaps across teams.
• Ensure requirements are testable and quality risks identified early.
• Coordinate functional, integration, end-to-end, regression, performance, security and UAT testing.
• Establish defects triage, prioritization and reporting; ensure resolution before release.
• Promote risk-based test automation within CI/CD pipelines for faster feedback.
• Establish and maintain the integrated release calendar and milestones.
• Facilitate test-completion and release-readiness reviews for go/no-go decisions.
• Coordinate production deployments with engineering, security, operations and partners.
• Define and report meaningful quality and release indicators.

Skills

Test management

Release management

Agile Scrum

CI/CD

Risk management

Stakeholder management

English fluency

Job description

Next Venturers in Brussels is seeking an experienced Test and Release Manager to lead end-to-end testing and release governance for D-FMI and related innovations. You will act as the bridge between product, engineering, operations, security, risk, and external partners, defining test strategy, quality governance, release readiness and deployment planning in a fast-paced agile environment.

Core responsibilities include coordinating test plans, ensuring testability of requirements, managing