IT Project Manager

About the role

This role leads the centralized End-to-End (E2E) Testing Control Tower across Finance, Risk, and Compliance functions, providing end-to-end accountability for testing governance, dependency orchestration, and cross-program execution. The position delivers lifecycle oversight spanning project intake, prioritization, test planning, environment coordination, data readiness, and release execution. The role drives the standardization of testing practices, enforces SSSDLC-aligned documentation and centralized artifact management, and enhances overall testing quality, consistency, and predictability.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate and intake all candidate projects, ensuring clear scope, urgency, dependencies, business impact, and alignment to intake standards.
• Govern use of a centralized intake channel and maintain a transparent project backlog across in-scope initiatives.
• Identify and assign E2E Testing Managers and ensure effective QA resource allocation across projects.
• Apply standardized prioritization criteria and continuously balance demand against capacity across the portfolio.
• Coordinate with stakeholders to facilitate proper sequencing and define QA and UAT timelines, ensuring no overlap and completion of regression cycles prior to UAT.
• Govern completeness of test coverage against business requirements and ensure adherence to testing strategies and operating models.
• Monitor milestone adherence across QA, UAT, and go-live phases; track planned vs. actual timelines and proactively flag delays or sequencing risks.
• Identify and manage cross-project dependencies, timeline conflicts, and inter-team handoffs to ensure seamless execution.
• Coordinate test environment setup, testing windows, and shared environment usage across concurrent initiatives, resolving conflicts proactively.
• Ensure timely provisioning of test data and enforce adherence to enhanced data load and validation controls for audit readiness.
• Proactively identify, assess, and escalate risks including timeline slippage, environment constraints, data gaps, and capacity issues.
• Escalate critical issues, sequencing conflicts, and cross-project impacts to senior stakeholders for timely resolution.
• Ensure all BRDs, FRDs, FSDs, and test artifacts are maintained in centralized repositories and drive adoption of SSSDLC-aligned templates.
• Partner with PMs and E2E Testing Managers to govern entry/exit criteria, ensure required signoffs, and assess downstream impacts across projects.
• Capture stakeholder feedback on risks and mitigation plans, incorporating insights into go-live readiness decisions.
• Standardize testing status reporting and deliver executive dashboards with visibility into execution progress, defect metrics, risks, dependencies, and gaps.
• Track adoption of test automation and leverage defect trends and post-go-live insights to drive continuous improvement across testing cycles.

Skills

• Testing governance and lifecycle oversight
• Dependency orchestration and cross-program execution
• Standardization of testing practices and SSSDLC-aligned documentation
• Stakeholder partnership and executive-level reporting
• Process optimization, automation adoption, and continuous improvement