Assistant Vice President, Global Testing Services, Non-Functional Portfolio

Assistant Vice President, Global Testing Services, Non-Functional PortfolioTesting:Take a leading role and manage Infrastructure Non-functional testing across multiple CLS hosting platform.Define annual test approaches to EOL, Security Patches, Mandatory Upgrades across various hosting platforms.Negotiate and manage effective test timelines with Infrastructure/Engineering team.Manage stakeholders and deliver quality test results.Leverage existing Test method as set out in the CLS test procedure and Test Approach.Manage multiple vendors to deliver Test Strategies, Test Plans, and complete Test Execution and Test Exit Reports.Stakeholder Management:Manage relationships with IT Infrastructure Leaders, Infra Architects, Engineering team, and hosting support teams.Vendor coordination and manage multiple VRAs.Reporting:Produce effective test plans targeting EOL, Security Patches, and other various upgrades.Defect management reports.Documentation:Test Strategy to Infrastructure specific projects.Test cases, scripts and defectsTest evidence collection during test executionTest Exit ReportsThe skills required for this role are:Technical skills: Cloud hosting and on-Prem Data Center hosting knowledge. Focusing on Hosting Infrastructure knowledge, Networking, Security, Software Support Life cycle.Relationship Management skills: build strong working relationship with IT Infra senior management team, Architects, and various support teams to deliver effective test plans and results against agreed schedules.Resource Management skills: work with Vendors to on-board, train, and retain VRAs with specific non-functional testing skills to deliver test results.Analytic skills - reviewing documents, identifying areas to test and anomalies in scope documents.Presentation skills - report test prep / execution updates to Infra Lead / Manager .Communication skills - articulate testing challenges and raise risks, defects.Time keeping skills - meeting milestones, ability to proactively manage own time calling out any challenges that may impact work or deadlines.The skills desired for this role are:Financial/banking domain experienceAWS hosting certifications.Confluence/JIRA/LoadRunner/Zephyr ToolExperience of working in onsite–offshore modelPMPEssential Function / major duties and responsibilities of the jobLead and execute non-functional, Infrastructure Verification test execution with VendorsOn top of testing progressUnderstand and follow the GTS process to deliver testing services