Bank of America Merrill Lynch provides comprehensive market, industry, product and advisory expertise to more than 140,000 businesses around the globe. With unrivalled insight and access delivered by dedicated relationship teams, we connect clients with the right opportunities in more than 150 countries throughout Europe, the Middle East and Africa, Asia Pacific and the Americas.
Bank of America Merrill Lynch’s Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) footprint comprises of 32 cities across 23 countries on three continents. The company is a long-established participant in the European markets, with a presence since 1922. Currently over 14,000 associates are based in EMEA.
Globally, Bank of America Merrill Lynch serves clients and customers in more than 150 countries and has relationships with 99 percent of the U.S. Fortune 500, nearly 96 percent of the Fortune Global 500 and 33 percent of the FTSE 100.
Today, the company offers an integrated and comprehensive set of products and services across all businesses, serving the needs of individual, corporate, institutional and government clients, by combining the best of local knowledge and international expertise. Bank of America Merrill Lynch has a strategic and measured approach to its international development and is strengthening its business and infrastructure to create sustainable, long-term growth.
Job Description
A vacancy exists for a Test Manager in the International Branch Technology function within the Global Commercial, Corporate and Investment Banking Technology (GCCIBT) department located in Croydon. The role will be responsible for delivering quality solutions for EMEA, Latin America and Canada Business Partners with focus on client payments platforms, in particular an integrated global banking system running on mainframe/COBOL IMS. The successful candidate will work closely with other technical teams to integrate the functionality in to the global treasury platform.
Responsibilities
· Leverage deep technical and business knowledge to create technology solutions and testing strategies that address complex technical and business challenges.
· Accountable for day-to-day technical project management of the testing deliverables, working in conjunction with change management to deliver projects on time and on budget.
·Apply deep technical insights and experience to inform, guide, challenge and support strategic technology investments and decisions.
· Deliver testing capabilities at an enterprise level, working with globally distributed teams and platforms.
·Ensure that the testing teams are leveraging best practice across all products and platforms.
· Provide, track and report team financial forecasts, creating and maintaining detailed work plans. Produce regular, thorough and accurate project status reports tailored for the target audience - from technical project team member to Senior Management.
·Participate in meetings with Management and provide appropriate input and feedback. Ensure project changes are managed and executed properly.
· Ensure that project issues and risks are accurately logged, tracked, resolved and escalated appropriately. Close liaison with change management, the business community, technical and testing groups within Bank of America globally, vendors and external financial institutions.
·Creation and management of staffing plans, driving recruitment to meet delivery of project portfolio.
· Management and Leadership of contractor and permanent staff.
· Full line management responsibilities of associates including performance management, associate development and feedback, talent planning and resource management, along with recruitment and augmentation of contractors as necessary,
·Management of supplier contractor staff, providing performance related feedback.
Requirements
Experience of man managing at Team of Test Managers or E2E Test Managers
Demonstrable experience of leading delivery of multiple complex projects
