Lead

Akkodis is seeking a Lead for a Contract with a client in Naperville, IL. The ideal candidate with expertise leading enterprise testing programs for banking and financial applications, ensuring quality delivery through effective test strategy, governance, and stakeholder management.

Rate Range: $37/hour to $43/hour; The rate may be negotiable based on experience, education, geographic location, and other factors.

Lead Job Responsibilities include:

• Lead and manage end-to-end testing activities for banking and financial applications, ensuring adherence to quality standards, project timelines, and business requirements.

• Develop and execute comprehensive test strategies, test plans, test cases, and test metrics across functional, integration, system, and peripheral testing initiatives.

• Coordinate testing teams, manage defect lifecycles, monitor testing progress, and provide status reports and quality metrics to project stakeholders and leadership.

• Utilize tools such as HP ALM/Quality Center, JIRA, Confluence, Postman, SoapUI, Git/Bitbucket, and Maven to support test management, defect tracking, and reporting activities.

• Collaborate with business, development, and project teams to analyze requirements, assess risks, troubleshoot issues, and ensure comprehensive test coverage.

• Drive process improvements, mentor QA team members, and establish testing best practices aligned with SDLC, Agile, Waterfall, and banking industry standards.

 

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, Business Information Systems, Finance, or a related field.

• 10+ years of experience in Software Quality Assurance and Testing, including 3+ years of experience as a Test Lead or Test Manager within Banking or Financial Services environments.

• Strong experience in Banking/Financial domain testing, including peripheral testing, functional testing, test strategy development, test governance, defect management, and SDLC methodologies (Agile and Waterfall).

• Hands-on expertise with HP ALM/Quality Center, JIRA, Confluence, Git/Bitbucket, Maven, Postman, SoapUI, and enterprise testing tools, with proven experience leading QA teams, managing testing programs, and delivering high-quality banking applications.

 

If you are interested in this role, then please click APPLY NOW. For other opportunities available at Akkodis, or any questions, feel free to contact me at Shashank.Tewari@akkodisgroup.com.

Pay Details: $37.00 to $43.00 per hour

Benefit offerings available for our associates include medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term disability, additional voluntary benefits, EAP program, commuter benefits and a 401K plan. Our benefit offerings provide employees the flexibility to choose the type of coverage that meets their individual needs. In addition, our associates may be eligible for paid leave including Paid Sick Leave or any other paid leave required by Federal, State, or local law, as well as Holiday pay where applicable.

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