Senior Test Lead — Hybrid Remote Strategy & Delivery (FS)

DB Recruitment; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 120,000 - 203,000; Full time

Job summary

DB Recruitment in Dublin is seeking a Senior Test Lead/Manager for a hybrid contract role. You will define and own the end-to-end test strategy for complex financial services transformation programmes, ensuring quality across delivery and regulatory requirements.

You will lead test delivery across SIT, UAT and non-functional testing, mentor teams, and collaborate with DevSecOps to drive automation and faster, safer releases. Excellent stakeholder management is essential.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in software testing or tech delivery with leadership.
• Experience leading test delivery for large-scale technology transformation in financial services or regulated environment.
• Knowledge of full SDLC and modern testing approaches across Agile, Waterfall, and hybrid delivery models.
• Experience defining enterprise or programme-level test strategies, governance, quality metrics, defect processes and release-readiness criteria.
• Leadership across multidisciplinary teams and vendors with accountability for test outcomes.
• Strong stakeholder management and the ability to present evidence-based quality assessments to senior leaders.
• Experience with functional, integration, regression, UAT and non-functional testing including performance, resilience and security coordination.
• A third-level degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Business or a relevant discipline.

Responsibilities

• Define and own end-to-end test strategy, governance and assurance for complex technology programmes.
• Lead test delivery across system integration testing, user acceptance testing, regression, non-functional testing, production readiness.
• Establish test plans, entry and exit criteria, traceability, quality metrics, defect management processes and executive reporting.
• Provide senior oversight across test managers, test leads, business testers, engineering teams, vendors and third-party delivery partners.
• Ensure requirements, solution designs, test coverage and business outcomes remain aligned throughout the software delivery lifecycle.
• Lead risk-based testing decisions and advise programme leadership on quality, release readiness, residual risk and go-live recommendations.
• Drive automation strategy and continuous testing practices, working with engineering and DevSecOps teams to improve speed, repeatability and control.
• Oversee test environment and test data planning, including dependencies, security, privacy and regulatory considerations.
• Communicate quality status and material risks clearly to senior client stakeholders, governance forums and programme leadership.
• Mentor test leaders and practitioners, strengthen testing capability and support the growth of the Platforms practice.

Skills

Test leadership

Software testing

Quality assurance

Stakeholder management

Agile/Hybrid delivery

Regulated environment knowledge

Test strategy

Education

Degree in IT/CS/Engineering

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Azure DevOps

Tricentis qTest

OpenText ALM

Quality Center

Zephyr

Tricentis Tosca

Selenium

Playwright

Cypress

Postman

JMeter

LoadRunner

Job description

DB Recruitment in Dublin is seeking a Senior Test Lead/Manager for a hybrid contract role. You will define and own the end-to-end test strategy for complex financial services transformation programmes, ensuring quality across delivery and regulatory requirements.

You will lead test delivery across SIT, UAT and non-functional testing, mentor teams, and collaborate with DevSecOps to drive automation and faster, safer releases. Excellent stakeholder management is essential.