Senior Program Test Manager / Test Coordination Lead

Granite Solutions Groupe; Minneapolis, Northern (MN, KY); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision

Life Insurance

Commuter benefits

401(k) plan

Pet insurance

Job summary

Granite Solutions Groupe is seeking a Senior Program Test Manager to lead end-to-end testing across the Client Reporting and PARis programs. This hands-on leadership role orchestrates testing with internal teams and external vendors in a regulated asset-management setting.

The role requires deep testing expertise, program-level governance, and strong stakeholder engagement to ensure release readiness and audit-aligned quality.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Business, Finance, or related field or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years leading test management or QA for large enterprise programs.
• Experience coordinating testing across multiple projects and vendors.
• Background in data-intensive financial services tech and asset reporting environments.

Responsibilities

• Define end-to-end testing strategy across multiple programs and releases.
• Coordinate test planning across internal teams and external vendors.
• Oversee test execution, defects, and release readiness.
• Ensure traceability of tests to requirements and regulatory compliance.
• Lead data validation, parallel run oversight, and sign-off activities.

Skills

Test management

Jira experience

Stakeholder coordination

Regulated environment

Data analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree in Information Systems/Business/Finance

Tools

Jira

PractiTest

Zephyr

Xray

Job description

Consultant, Project Management

Granite Solutions Groupe provides financial services decision makers with people and solutions that deliver. Our clients count on us to deliver the right talent at the right time to achieve critical business results. We leverage our industry knowledge and passion for client priorities to deliver human capital solutions.

GSG was founded in 1998 as a consulting firm delivering project management and technology solutions for the financial services industry. GSG now has a global presence, with team members deployed across the U.S. at Fortune 1000 companies and high-performing Fintech firms.

High-caliber consultants are the face of GSG at our client organizations and offices. We value the deep relationships we have with our consultants that enable us to place them in roles where their skills will have an immediate impact. The GSG consulting team is comprised of diverse, experienced, driven, and dynamic contributors who excel at getting things done.

About the Opportunity

We are seeking a Senior Program Test Manager / Test Coordination Lead to plan, govern, and coordinate end-to-end testing across multiple, tightly-coupled initiatives within the Client Reporting (OCIO) Transformation Program and PARis Migration Program. This role will operate at the program level, orchestrating testing across several parallel project workstreams, internal teams, and external vendors during a critical period of delivery and transition.

The successful candidate will be accountable for the integrated testing strategy, planning, execution oversight, and release readiness, ensuring testing activities are well-sequenced, risk-managed, and aligned to regulatory, operational, and client-impact expectations.

This is a hands‑on leadership role requiring deep testing expertise, strong coordination skills, and the ability to operate credibly with senior stakeholders in a regulated asset‑management environment.

Responsibilities

Program Level Testing Strategy & Governance:

• Define, socialize, and manage an end-to-end testing strategy spanning multiple programs and releases, including system, integration, regression, parallel run, UAT, and go-no-go readiness.
• Establish testing governance, standards, entry/exit criteria, defect management processes, and reporting across Client Reporting and PARis Migration initiatives.
• Ensure testing activities align with program milestones, regulatory expectations, and operational readiness requirements.

Integrated Test Planning & Coordination:

• Develop and maintain integrated test plans and schedules across multiple dependent workstreams (e.g., platform upgrades, data migrations, reporting changes, vendor-led implementations).
• Coordinate test execution activities across internal teams (Technology, Operations, Performance, Accounting, Compliance) and external vendors.
• Manage cross-program testing dependencies, environment readiness, data availability, and sequencing constraints.
• Provide oversight and support to ensure teams are tracing test cases back to requirements, with traceability evidenced.
• Responsible for coordination of system data refreshes, including meticulous planning and communication of the timing, impacts, and dependencies of refreshes across intersecting projects.

Execution Oversight & Defect Management:

• Oversee test execution progress, including test case readiness, execution status, defect triage, severity assessment, and remediation tracking.
• Facilitate daily/weekly touchpoints to manage testing progress, risks, and issue resolution.
• Ensure accurate, executive-level testing status reporting, highlighting risks, impacts, and mitigation plans.

Data Validation & Parallel Run Oversight:

• Coordinate and oversee data validation, reconciliation, and parallel production testing to ensure accuracy, completeness, and consistency of calculated results.
• Ensure appropriate sign‑off from business and operational stakeholders prior to releases or cutovers.

Vendor & Stakeholder Management:

• Act as the testing coordination point across third‑party vendors and internal delivery teams, aligning expectations, timelines, and deliverables.
• Support testing‑related aspects of vendor engagements, including planning, scope alignment, and issue resolution.

Systems, Platforms, and Vendors Involved:

• Client Reporting & Performance Platforms:
  • PARis (Investment Metrics / Confluence)
  • SS&C Sylvan
  • SS&C Portia
  • Clearwater Analytics (LPx)
  • Clearwater PRISM
• Trade Order Management Platforms:
  • Bloomberg AIM
  • Bloomberg Attribution Solutions (PORT Enterprise, Macro-Attribution)
• Data & Feeds:
  • Rimes benchmark indices
  • Custodial and index data feeds
  • Extracts to/from Clearwater, Bloomberg, USB data warehouse, SS&C and other integration partners
  • Investment Metrics (PARis)

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Business, Finance, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• 10+ years of experience in test management, test coordination, or quality assurance leadership for large-scale, enterprise programs.
• Demonstrated experience coordinating testing across multiple concurrent projects and vendors.
• Strong background in data-intensive systems, preferably in:
  • Asset management
  • Performance measurement
  • Client reporting
  • Financial services technology
• Experience managing UAT, integration testing, data validation, and parallel production runs.
• Proven ability to work within regulated environments, supporting audit, compliance, and control expectations.
• Experience with using Jira.

Soft Skills & Leadership Attributes:

• Highly organized, detail-oriented, and comfortable operating in complex, ambiguous program environments.
• Strong executive communication skills, with the ability to translate detailed testing issues into clear risk-based summaries.
• Confident facilitator who can influence without authority and drive alignment across diverse teams.
• Calm and decisive under pressure, with a strong bias toward risk mitigation and delivery assurance.
• Collaborative mindset with a proactive, solutions-oriented approach.

Qualifications:

• Formal testing or quality certifications (e.g., ISTQB, CSTE) are a plus.
• Experience with test management tools, defect tracking systems, and structured test reporting such as PractiTest, Zephyr, Xray, etc. in addition to required experience with Jira.
• Ability to work effectively in a matrixed organization with both technical and business stakeholders.

Employee Benefits:

• comprehensive medical, dental, vision and prescription coverage.
• company-paid life insurance.
• eligible commuter benefits-like paying for work-related public transit and parking with pre-tax dollars.
• pre-tax contributions that go directly into your 401K.
• pet insurance, discount card and prescriptions.

GSG’s Commitment to Diversity:

As a diverse-owned business, GSG is committed to creating a diverse workforce, and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.