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Year 1 launches on sponsor-bank and processor rails; Years 2-3 bring SWIFT, credit, and direct participation in Iberpay / T2 / TIPS.\nLocation: Madrid (hybrid); travel to Spanish and EU sites as required. Working languages: Spanish (professional) and English (professional). Contract: full-time, 24-36 month programme with permanent conversion possible.\nRole summary\nOwn quality across the whole programme: from the Master Test Strategy through SIT, data and interface testing, scheme and processor certification cycles, UAT with the business, to the cut-over rehearsals and hypercare for a payments-first digital bank in Spain. You know that in payments the calendar is owned by the schemes and the sponsor, that instant payments and card authorisations are 24/7, and that a reconciliation difference is a defect.\nKey Responsibilities\nKey responsibilities\nWrite and own the Master Test Strategy and Plan: scope by domain (platform, core, payments, cards, onboarding, security, performance, observability, interfaces, recovery), entry/exit criteria per cycle, environments, data, tooling, defect severity model and governance.\nPlan and run System Integration Testing across core banking, payment hub, sponsor bank, card processor, VoP/RVM, sanctions and fraud engines, video-ID vendor, PSD2 APIs; build or procure simulators for external parties so SIT is not hostage to other people's calendars.\nLead end-to-end interface testing: ISO 20022 message packs (pain/pacs/camt), R-transactions, SCT Inst 10-second end-to-end, card authorisation/hold API, settlement files, statements, regulatory reporting extracts.\nLead data testing: migration/initial-load reconciliation where applicable, reference-data validation (IBAN, BIC, SNCE tables), GL and sub-ledger reconciliation, data quality rules, month-end simulations.\nCoordinate certification cycles with external parties: sponsor-bank onboarding tests, Iberpay/Eurosystem tests as applicable, Visa/Mastercard and STMP/Redsys certification via the processor, wallet certifications, VoP conformance, PCI DSS evidence, penetration tests; own the evidence packs.\nPlan and run UAT with business owners and validators: scenario design, traceability to requirements, defect triage, sign-off; manage the acceptance evidence for regulators.\nDesign and run performance and resilience testing: peak instant/card loads, AZ loss, sponsor and processor failover, backup/restore, IaC rebuild - aligned with DORA and Banco de España expectations.\nOwn cut-over and hypercare testing: cut-over rehearsals, go/no-go evidence, rollback tests, day-1 to day-30 daily reconciliation and defect management.\nRun test tooling and automation (test management, API automation, regression suites, data generation) and the defect process; report quality metrics to the Programme Director and steering committee.\n\nSkill Requirements\nMust-have experience\n8+ years leading testing for core banking and payments implementations at banks, including at least one greenfield or full-replacement programme through go-live.\nProven ownership of Master Test Strategy/Plan, SIT, UAT and cut-over for payments: SEPA SCT/SCT Inst/SDD, cards (authorisation, clearing, settlement, 3DS, tokens), ideally SWIFT.\nHands-on with ISO 20022 message testing and R-transaction scenarios; ability to read EPC implementation guidelines and scheme test packs.\nData testing leadership: reconciliation-based testing, migration/initial load, GL/sub-ledger, data quality rules.\nExperience running external certification cycles with schemes, CSMs, sponsors or processors on fixed calendars, including evidence management.\nPerformance and resilience testing of 24/7 systems; familiarity with DORA-style resilience evidence.\nTest tooling and automation (e.g., Jira/Xray or ALM, Postman/ReadyAPI, Selenium/Playwright, JMeter/k6, data generators); vendor and offshore team management.\nFluent Spanish - UAT is run with Spanish business users and regulators.\nMust-have experience\n8+ years leading testing for core banking and payments implementations at banks, including at least one greenfield or full-replacement programme through go-live.\nProven ownership of Master Test Strategy/Plan, SIT, UAT and cut-over for payments: SEPA SCT/SCT Inst/SDD, cards (authorisation, clearing, settlement, 3DS, tokens), ideally SWIFT.\nHands-on with ISO 20022 message testing and R-transaction scenarios; ability to read EPC implementation guidelines and scheme test packs.\nData testing leadership: reconciliation-based testing, migration/initial load, GL/sub-ledger, data quality rules.\nExperience running external certification cycles with schemes, CSMs, sponsors or processors on fixed calendars, including evidence management.\nPerformance and resilience testing of 24/7 systems; familiarity with DORA-style resilience evidence.\nTest tooling and automation (e.g., Jira/Xray or ALM, Postman/ReadyAPI, Selenium/Playwright, JMeter/k6, data generators); vendor and offshore team management.\nFluent Spanish - UAT is run with Spanish business users and regulators.\n\nOther Requirements\nCertifications\nISTQB Advanced Level Test Manager (or equivalent) strongly preferred; PMP/PRINCE2 or SAFe valued; ISO 20022/SWIFT training certificates valued.\nLanguages\nSpanish: native or C1 - mandatory.\nEnglish: fluent (vendors, schemes, documentation).\nWhat success looks like in the first 12 months\nMaster Test Strategy approved by programme and regulators' liaison; 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