Quality Assurance Test Lead

Quality Assurance Test Lead
Viseu
Viseu, Viseu District, Portugal

Who is Volkswagen Financial Services?

It's been more than 70 years since Volkswagen Financial Services AG financed the first Volkswagen vehicles in Germany in 1949. A lot has changed since then, but our core goal hasn't;



ensuring we meet the mobility needs of the people.

Volkswagen Financial Services today operates in 48 markets through its various subsidiaries, shareholdings, and joint ventures. Volkswagen Financial Services is the largest provider of automotive financial services worldwide.

At VWFS Porto, we are proud to foster a
- equal workplace, where diversity is celebrated, and every individual is provided with equal opportunities to thrive and succeed.

Objectives:

As a member of the VWFS Porto test team, you will lead the testing on a project or workstream ensuring the high quality and successful implementation of Contract Management systems for VWFS markets across Europe. This will involve management and delivery of the
-
- end System Testing, System Integrations Testing, Regression and User Acceptance Testing. Collaborating with and
- ordinating 3rd party (Onsite and Offshore) QA resources.

In this role you will be responsible for:

Defining the project test approach including, scope, feature acceptance criteria, exit criteria, timelines and key milestones

Analysing and reviewing requirements, user stories, specifications, process designs to define test scenarios

Developing and executing manual test scripts

Reporting to stakeholders on all aspects of test progress

Ensuring project methodologies and ways of working allow the test team to achieve the VWFS Test Strategy

Ensuring all Testing and QA deliverables meet the standards outlined in the VWFS Porto Test Strategy

Maintaining relationships with 3rd parties such as test resource suppliers and software vendors

Ensuring resource, data, and test environment requirements are captured and delivered

Promoting an environment of continuous improvement, such as ensuring projects learn from each other, regularly suggesting updates to the Test Strategy and our ways of working, and supporting the maintenance of knowledge repositories

Ensuring project testing and test automation team are aligned to ensure maximum ROI from automation

Level of
- making power/authorization:

Test Risk mitigation within Projects

Allocation of QA Testing resources to deliver necessary services

Agree testing scope, tools, and strategies such as
- based approach on test coverage with the impacted business areas to enable rapid change delivery

We believe that the right profile for this job should have / be:

Bachelor or master's degree in informatics, computer science or comparable

Proven experience of managing test / project teams

Excellent stakeholder management skills

Experience in working in an international team/ project team

High degree of initiative, responsibility, assertiveness and flexibility

Positive and
- minded person with good communication and presentation skills

Proficient in written and spoken English

Organized

Team coordination capability

JIRA + test management addon

Nice to have/Considered a plus:

Proficient in written and spoken German

ISTQB advanced certifications

Experience in using application lifecycle management tools (JIRA, Azure Dev
Ops)

Knowledge of: Wholesale, Retail Financing, Leasing and Fleet Business

Defect management and triage

What we Offer:

Long-term contract.

Competitive package including private health insurance, life insurance and meal allowance (pay by meal card).

Bonuses and benefits depending on performance

Schooling allowance and pension scheme

Incredible and unique annual company events

Opportunity to work on an international project and be part of multicultural and multidisciplinary team

Solid performance evaluation and career management methodologies

Continuous training – technical and behavioural development