Overview
DB Global Technology is Deutsche Bank’s technology center in Central and Eastern Europe. Opened in January 2014, the Bucharest office is constantly expanding. Our center develops cutting-edge software applications for the Deutsche Bank’s global operations and represents a platform for highly skilled software engineers. The team members specialize in Software Application Development, IT Architecture, Quality Assurance and Testing, Functional/Business Analysis and Project Management.
Regulation, Compliance, and Anti-Financial Crime (RCA)
Our RCA team is responsible for protecting Deutsche Bank from financial and reputational losses incurred by financial crimes by assessing, controlling and mitigating risks. Risk types related to Anti-Financial Crime are consolidated in a comprehensive and effective risk management framework that covers Anti-Money-Laundering, Sanctions & Embargoes, Anti-Bribery & Corruption as well as Anti-Fraud & Investigations.
Your technical prowess includes:
- You will define and manage teams, testing strategies, plans and deliverables related to testing within specific applications and programmes of work on a global basis. You will also manage and drive the adoption of recognised best practice and policy and contribute to the ongoing improvement of methodologies and assets. You will manage and be accountable for Functional testing, Performance testing and Automation testing for applications in programme portfolio
- Coordinating with the Delivery manager and portfolio stakeholders to ensure that the test strategy is aligned with the overall programme IT Strategy.
- Ensuring that resources are provisioned for the portfolio projects, in line with the programme TOM and release calendar
- Managing the overall effort to ensure that all in scope components and scenarios are tested and reported on for all the programme portfolio
- Providing management, leadership and technical guidance to Testing Specialists and Testing Analysts
- Leading teams working on the detailed test strategies and planning for applications based on technical and business specifications in accordance with DB standards
- Working with Testing Specialists to review and understand business requirements functional and non-functional specifications
- Ensuring adherence to testing best practices and DB testing standards
- Participating in stakeholder management within the application and project context, including stakeholders of up and downstream systems and external teams
- Ensuring that stakeholders receive information that enables fact based decisions to be made
- Managing the working relationship with 3rd party team members
- Coordinating with external groups such as test environment support and production management teams
- Acting as a senior escalation point for all stakeholders, including internal testing team escalation
- Championing and participating in the activities of the broader QA and Testing community
- Aligning to the wider team / group objectives
You are also quite the people guru :
- Supporting team growth and development aligned with the programme strategy
- Ensure that team achieve agreed KPI’s
- Ensuring regular 1-1 are organized with team members
- Encouraging a feedback culture within the team
- Motivating team members to achieve their potential
- Ensuring that administrative tasks are completed in due time (e.g. time management, mandatory trainings, vacation approvals, etc.)
- Facilitating training booking to ensure that the team is allocated to the relevant training sessions
Experience/Exposure:
- Proven experience in Testing roles and/or leading testing teams
- Technology knowledge and expertise
- Experience of test management and defect tracking tools
- Proven experience of defining and implementing project level test strategies
- Strong experience in software development processes, models, lifecycles and methodologies, with particular emphasis on agile and waterfall
- Customer and service orientation to support interaction with team resources and clients
- Performance and productivity oriented to drive toward quality testing outcomes and results
- Previous program and project management experience
- Proactively, initiate, develop and maintain effective working relationships with team members and key stakeholders
- Demonstrated ability to work with a variety of people and achieve results
- Proven experience with change leadership, managing complexity and risk management
- Proven experience with Process development & management, Project management & Project governance, Quality management, Vendor/Contract management
- Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited college or university in Computer Science (or equivalent diploma/work experience)
- Good knowledge of ISTQB concepts
- Proficient English skills – both written and verbal
Preferred:
- Financial Services Domain knowledge
- Experience in working in and with distributed vendor model
- Experience of test tools (HP Application Lifecycle Management) and defect/task management (JIRA), other tools (Jama, Confluence, Sharepoint)
- ISTQB certification
Our values define the working environment we strive to create – diverse, supportive and welcoming of different views. We embrace a culture reflecting a variety of perspectives, insights and backgrounds to drive innovation. We build talented and diverse teams to drive business results and encourage our people to develop to their full potential. Talk to us about flexible work arrangements and other initiatives we offer.
We promote good working relationships and encourage high standards of conduct and work performance. We welcome applications from talented people from all cultures, countries, races, genders, sexual orientations, disabilities, beliefs and generations and are committed to providing a working environment free from harassment, discrimination and retaliation.
