Project Manager -TCOE for Banking Project

We are seeking a highly experienced Project Manager to lead the Testing Center of Excellence (TCOE) initiative for a large-scale banking transformation project. The ideal candidate will be responsible for managing centralized testing functions, standardizing QA processes, and ensuring alignment of test strategy with business goals across the enterprise.

• Lead the TCOE setup and governance, ensuring alignment with enterprise QA objectives, test policies, and tools.

• Define and manage test strategy, test governance framework, and metrics across projects in the banking domain.

• Work closely with QA leads, business stakeholders, delivery managers, and external vendors to drive testing excellence.

• Manage the planning and execution of functional, regression, performance, security, and automation testing across various programs.

• Establish and enforce best practices in test processes, tools, environment management, and defect triaging.

• Drive implementation of test automation frameworks, test data management, and reusable assets.

• Track test progress, risks, and dependencies across portfolios using dashboards, KPIs, and QA scorecards.

• Conduct regular QA reviews, audits, and process maturity assessments (e.g., TMMi).

• Support capacity planning, budgeting, and resource management for the TCOE.

• Ensure test environments and tools are provisioned and maintained in coordination with infra and dev teams.

• Report regularly to senior leadership on quality metrics, risk posture, and delivery timelines.

• PMP / Prince2 / Agile PM certification

• ISTQB Advanced Test Manager or equivalent

• Proven experience managing enterprise testing programs or TCOE implementations in the banking or financial services industry.

• Strong knowledge of banking domains such as core banking, digital channels, lending, cards, payments, treasury, or risk.

• Experience with test management tools (e.g., HP ALM, JIRA, TestRail), and automation tools (e.g., Selenium, UFT, Tosca).

• Hands-on experience with Agile, DevOps, and CI/CD-based delivery models.

• Strong project management skills – planning, budgeting, risk management, stakeholder communication.

• Strong leadership and team-building skills

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management

• Analytical and decision-making capabilities

• Ability to manage ambiguity and work under pressure