.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 gender-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-to-end System Testing, System Integrations Testing, Regression and User Acceptance Testing. Collaborating with and coordinating 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. Analyzing 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. 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 decision-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 risk-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. Ability to self-organize and coordinate with an international team. High degree of initiative, responsibility, assertiveness and flexibility. Positive and team-minded person with good communication and presentation skills. Experience in using application lifecycle management tools like JIRA
