Sr. Manager, Technical UAT & Integration Test Manager, Core & Digital Banking

Ignite Banking•,

5d•Remote

About The Position

The Sr. Manager, Technical UAT & Integration Test Manager owns testing across a bank-wide modernization program, coordinating the bank’s teams and vendors under one strategy, calendar, defect process, and quality picture. The engagement involves a community bank moving to an API-first core and launching digital banking and servicing for retail and small-business customers, with new payments and fraud integrations. Bank staff and vendors execute test scripts; this role plans, coordinates, tracks, and reports testing, and personally verifies critical or disputed results using data, APIs, or test libraries. It is a technical leadership role rather than a QA coordination role. The position establishes the testing strategy and governance across core configuration, digital banking and servicing, payments, and integrations. It manages the master test calendar, coverage inventory, environments, test data, dependencies, quality gates, and a common defect process. The role reports progress and quality evidence to program and executive leadership, provides go/no-go recommendations before major milestones, and prioritizes testing by business risk when not all tests can be run. The role is remote within the United States and involves paid travel of 10–25% for kickoffs, working sessions, mock conversions, and cutovers. The employee works inside client teams and tools alongside bank staff and vendors. Employment is full-time W-2 with benefits. Offers are contingent on a background check; some clients also require drug testing and seven years of employment verification before work begins.

Requirements

At least 10 years of testing experience, including at least 5 years leading test programs for banks or banking technology providers.
Testing-lead experience on at least one launch or migration of online and mobile banking for both retail and small-business customers, including business users, entitlements, and approvals.
Testing-lead experience on at least one bank core conversion, from mock conversions through go-live.
Current, hands-on SQL skills against core banking data.
Hands-on API testing using OpenAPI specifications in Postman or a similar tool.
Ability to read and write test definitions and configuration in YAML or JSON.
Experience coordinating testing across several vendors while owning the plan, dependencies, and critical path.
Experience making go/no-go recommendations and producing weekly reporting that bank executives act on, including at least one no-go or go-with-conditions decision.
Ability to learn a new core data model and vendor API from documentation, work with incomplete information, and communicate evidence-based recommendations to executives.

Nice To Haves

Experience with an API-first, cloud-native core such as Nymbus, Thought Machine, Mambu, or Finxact.
Experience with a digital banking and servicing platform such as Q2, Alkami, Apiture, Savana, Bankjoy, Backbase, Narmi, Jack Henry Banno, or Fiserv.
Payments testing experience involving Nacha files and returns, Fedwire ISO 20022 messages, positive pay, and bill pay.
Experience with fraud and AML monitoring integrations.
Community bank experience, particularly where bank testers also perform daily operations.
Experience as a technical project or program manager.
PMP or ISTQB Test Manager certification.

Responsibilities

Create a unified test strategy covering core configuration, digital banking and servicing, payments, integrations, phases, owners, environments, and test data.
Maintain a master test calendar aligned with program milestones and the critical path through mock conversions, releases, and go-live.
Establish test governance and quality gates, including a severity model, triage cadence, vendor response tracking, and escalation into the program RAID log.
Build an inventory of vendor-supplied and bank-written test scenarios and cases, identify coverage gaps, and work with leadership to close them.
Run a common defect process across workstreams and vendors in the bank’s case management tool; chair weekly triage and track aging by vendor and severity, as well as deferred and rejected items.
Publish a weekly test dashboard by workstream covering execution progress, pass rate, open defects by severity and age, and blocked tests, for the program’s executive status report.
Provide program and executive leadership with evidence-based go/no-go recommendations and risk readouts before mock conversions, releases, and go-live.
Manage dependencies including environment builds, test data, vendor code drops, interface readiness, and mock dates.
Personally verify critical or disputed results involving core product, parameter, and general-ledger configuration; retail and small-business digital banking; payments; and integrations such as fraud and AML monitoring and Fed routing.
Review test definitions used by the bank and vendors and strengthen them to reduce the chance of defects escaping testing.
Prioritize testing by business risk when time does not allow every test to run, and have bank management review residual risk for untested items.