Test Lead (Finance, Risk & Tax)

Location: New York, United States; hybrid work model with in-office and work-from-home flexibility

Hourly rate: $76–97 per hour

Company

ING Wholesale Banking provides financial products and services to domestic and international corporate and institutional clients through its Americas and global technology organization.

What you will do

• Define and implement a risk-based, end-to-end testing strategy and operating model for Finance, Risk and Tax reporting deliverables.
• Plan and coordinate system integration, data validation, end-to-end, user acceptance, regression and production-readiness testing.
• Translate requirements, reporting rules, mappings and acceptance criteria into test scenarios, cases and expected results.
• Validate data completeness, lineage, transformations, calculations, reconciliations and report outputs across source systems, data models, Power BI and downstream reports.
• Lead defect governance, triage, retesting, closure evidence, risk escalation and readiness reporting.
• Coordinate business, data, engineering, vendor and global platform stakeholders while coaching analysts, developers and business testers.

Requirements

• 7+ years of software testing, data testing, quality assurance or test management experience in complex technology, data or regulatory-change initiatives.
• Experience leading testing for Finance, Risk, Tax, regulatory reporting or other data-intensive reporting capabilities in financial services.
• Strong knowledge of end-to-end data flows, ETL or ingestion, data models, transformation rules, data warehouses, semantic layers and reporting tools.
• Hands-on experience with test strategies, integrated test plans, test cases, traceability, defect processes, execution controls and completion reports.
• Experience coordinating SIT, UAT and end-to-end testing with business users, developers, data engineers, architects, platform teams and vendors.
• Working knowledge of SQL or equivalent data-query techniques and tools such as Azure DevOps, Jira, ALM or qTest.

Nice to have

• Experience with U.S. regulatory reporting, particularly Shared National Credit reporting, regulatory Finance or Risk reporting.
• Experience with FRIDA or comparable Finance and Risk data platforms and with Power BI.
• Knowledge of Finance and accounting data, credit-risk concepts, data lineage, data-quality controls and reconciliations.
• Experience with parallel runs, dry runs, regulatory submission rehearsals, production aftercare or repeatable data comparison using SQL, Python, Power Query or Excel.
• Testing certifications such as ISTQB or equivalent practical experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work model combining in-office and work-from-home flexibility, varying by business area.
• Collaborative work across U.S. Finance, Risk, Tax, Data, Architecture, Engineering, Technology Risk, Testing and global delivery teams.
• Opportunity to work in a regulated financial-services environment on audit-ready reporting capabilities.
• Inclusive workplace that encourages individuality, ownership and different perspectives.