Senior Test Manager - Insurance and Financial Services

Contract: 12 months (subject to extension).

Location: Rotterdam, Netherlands.

Salary: Not a constraint for the right candidate!

Experience: 8-10 years.

Hybrid: 2 days Work from Home 3 days Work from Office

Your Profile & DNA:

We are seeking an experienced Test Manager with 10+ years of expertise in the insurance and/or financial services sector to lead User Acceptance Testing (UAT) across multiple applications and solutions for an international IT program. The ideal candidate will bring strong test management expertise, experience with modern delivery methodologies (e.g. agile, iterative), and proven stakeholder management skills, as well as a track record of working in dynamic, sometimes unstructured environments. You will plan and oversee UAT across multiple applications and solutions, support and guide global business teams, and ensure that testing is executed and governed effectively so that solutions meet real business needs.

Roles & Responsibilities

Test Management and UAT Leadership

• Define and manage UAT test strategies, plans and schedules aligned with the goals and timelines of the international programme
• Design and oversee test conditions, test cases and test scenarios across multiple applications and solutions, ensuring appropriate coverage of business requirements.
• Lead UAT entry and exit criteria, gate reviews and signoff processes, ensuring clear acceptance standards and traceable decisions
• Coordinate and oversee UAT execution by business SMEs and UAT teams, ensuring testing remains aligned to business objectives and programme priorities in a fast changing environment

Ways of Working and Methodologies

• Work effectively within agile, iterative and waterfall (or hybrid) delivery methodologies, adapting test management approaches to project requirements and governance.
• Champion good practice in test management, execution and defect handling across UAT teams, balancing structure with pragmatism in a fast-paced programme environment.
• Remain comfortable operating in a dynamic, sometimes ambiguous setting, adjusting plans and priorities when strategies or scopes pivot.

People Leadership & Team Support

• Lead, support and inspire country aligned business SME testing teams, fostering a collaborative and high performing culture so they can deliver UAT to their full potential.
• Provide mentoring, guidance and coaching to UAT Test Analyst team members and business SME teams, promoting good practise and continuous improvement in testing capability and confidence.
• Provide in person support to business SME UAT teams where required; this may involve occasional travel within EMEA.

Tools & Test Enablement

• Ensure effective use of test management, defect management and collaboration tools to plan, track and report UAT activities.
• Support the selection, implementation and rollout of new tools, upgrades or processes that enhance business testing capabilities and visibility.

Stakeholder Management & Communication

• Act as a key interface between the Business Test Lead, programme leadership and business SME teams, communicating test status, issues and risks clearly and in a timely manner.
• Collaborate with senior stakeholders to prioritise UAT scope and efforts based on business risk and value.

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• Produce and deliver concise, accurate and insight driven reporting on UAT progress, quality, risks and readiness for go-Live.
• Be willing to travel within Europe/EMEA on an infrequent basis to support key workshops, gate meetings and stakeholder engagements.

DevOps and Automation Awareness

• Leverage a good understanding of DevOps pipelines and automated testing to position UAT effectively within end-to-end delivery and release processes.
• Work with technical and QA teams to identify and exploit automation opportunities that support UAT (e.g. data preparation, regression packs), without losing focus on business?led validation

Qualification & Experience

• 10+ years’ experience in testing or related roles within the insurance or financial services industry, including significant exposure to UAT.
• Proven experience in managing and executing testing across both agile and waterfall (or hybrid) delivery methodologies.
• Strong collaboration and leadership skills, with the ability to motivate and manage global business testing teams working to demanding deadlines and timescales.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, including experience engaging senior stakeholders.
• Strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to build effective relationships with inexperienced business SMEs, UAT test teams and technical subject matter experts to support testing.
• ISTQB Certified Tester - Foundation Level, or equivalent industry-recognised qualification.
• Good understanding of automated testing tools (e.g. Selenium, Playwright) and DevOps practices, and how these support UAT and release processes.

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• Self-motivated and driven, able to work with minimal supervision while providing clear direction to others.
• Fluent in English, additional fluency in Dutch, French, German or Spanish is an advantage.

What do we offer?

If your profile matches the job requirement and you are interested to be presented to our clients, then please apply and don’t forget to attach your updated CV in line with the JD!

This position is for 1 year with possibility of extension. We offer competitive Gross Salary in line with the market standard.

Besides that, we offer following benefits, such as:

• 20 days of holiday per year based on 40 hours
• Encourage Personal Development - Certification (Certification Charges reimbursed)
• Income Tax Return Filing
• We provide Visa Sponsorship for Candidate & Dependants
• Possibility of bonus

Who we are:

A2G Consulting also known as "A2G Technologies" is one of the fastest growing staffing companies in North Brabant region, Netherlands. We cater to Asia and Europe market focusing on high tech & non-high-tech clientele; headquartered in Eindhoven, Netherlands with a branch office in India (Bangalore & Pune) & Dubai. We successfully find a candidate and ensure that they get opportunities in line with their aspirations. We offer visa sponsorship for local & international candidates for career-enhancing opportunities. We strongly believe in equal opportunities and hence have a pool of resources with diversified ethnicity.

You will be deployed and work at one of our client sites.