Senior Test Data Manager

ITConnect; Polska; Hybrid; PLN 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

ITConnect seeks an experienced Test Data Manager to lead the TDM strategy for a Nordic banking client, driving governance and operating models across agile teams. You will shape policies for provisioning, masking, and retention, and ensure GDPR compliance while enabling automated testing in CI/CD pipelines.

The role requires 10+ years in Testing, QA or Data Management, plus expertise in data masking, synthetic data, and end-to-end test management across mainframe and distributed systems.

Qualifications

• Experience in test data management, data masking/anonymization, and regulatory compliance (GDPR).
• Strong testing/QA knowledge across end-to-end testing and test automation.
• Experience integrating test data into CI/CD pipelines and agile delivery models.

Responsibilities

• Define and implement the test data strategy and governance.
• Create policies for data provisioning, masking, retention and refresh cycles.
• Assess current test data processes and map data dependencies across teams.

Skills

Test Data Management

GDPR compliance

CI/CD pipelines

Automation testing

Agile/DevOps

Mainframe experience

Tools

Jenkins

Job description

We are looking for an experienced Test Data Manager to join the Home Journey program for our Nordic banking client — the team responsible for the full end-to-end process a customer goes through when buying a home in the Nordics. You will work in a diverse, international, agile environment, establishing a strategic Test Data Management (TDM) process and driving its adoption across teams to enable scalable, compliant and automation-ready testing.

• Define and implement the test data strategy, establish governance, an ownership model and an operating framework, in collaboration with our Central Data Provisioning team
• Create TDM policies covering data provisioning, masking, retention and refresh cycles, and define KPIs and reporting for TDM effectiveness
• Assess the current state of test data processes, tools and responsibilities — identify gaps, risks, dependencies and inefficiencies, and map critical business journeys and data dependencies
• Design the target TDM operating model, establish self-service capabilities for teams, and define roles and responsibilities across ARTs and teams
• Define an automated test data provisioning approach and integrate TDM into CI/CD pipelines, enabling on-demand test data generation and refresh processes
• Drive PoC/pilot activities and lead the rollout and adoption of TDM across the Home Journey program
• 10+ years of experience within Testing, QA or Data Management
• Webservices Testing
• SOAP
• SOA Testing
• Jenkins
• Mobile Performance Testing
• Strong experience in: Test Data Management processes, data masking and anonymization, GDPR and regulatory compliance, end-to-end testing, test automation & AI utilization, CI/CD pipelines, and Agile/DevOps delivery models
• Experience and understanding of mainframe systems
• Experience managing test data across multiple applications, integrated platforms and distributed teams
• Experience conducting TDM assessments, strategies and operating model design
• Experience with test data masking, subsetting, synthetic data creation, cloning and provisioning approaches