Test Lead - Finance, Risk, & Tax CONTRACTOR at ING in New York

Job description

• ING is seeking an experienced, hands-on Test Lead to establish and coordinate the testing approach for Finance, Risk and Tax reporting deliverables within a major local and global internal program. The consultant will lead test planning and execution across a broad portfolio of data and reporting capabilities supporting management, internal and regulatory reporting needs.
• The scope of reporting requirements includes Shared National Credit (SNC) regulatory reporting; Risk management reporting, Tax Profit and Loss and Balance Sheet reporting; and Finance reporting solutions built on Power BI. The role will coordinate testing across source systems, data ingestion, data models, simplified views, consumer lenses, mappings, interfaces, and downstream reports.
• This role will formalize a practical testing operating model for the workstream and provide day-to-day leadership for test preparation, execution, evidence, defect governance, reporting, and stakeholder coordination. The strongest candidate will combine regulatory-reporting and data-testing experience with the ability to create structure quickly, challenge incomplete requirements, reconcile outputs across complex data flows and drive defects to closure across local and globally distributed teams.

Responsibilities

• Define and implement a risk-based, end-to-end testing strategy and operating model for Finance, Risk and Tax reporting deliverables.
• Create and maintain the integrated test plan, scope, schedule, entry and exit criteria, roles and responsibilities, environments, data needs, dependencies, evidence standards and reporting cadence.
• Coordinate system integration testing, data validation, end-to-end testing, user acceptance testing, regression testing, dry runs, and business sign-off activities across the workstream.
• Translate business requirements, reporting rules, business requirement documents, source-to-target mappings and acceptance criteria into clear test scenarios, test cases, and expected results.
• Validate data completeness, accuracy, lineage, transformation logic, aggregation, reconciliation and report presentation from systems of record through ingestion, FRIDA data models and views, consumer lenses and downstream reporting tools.
• Lead testing for SNC regulatory reporting, including validation of critical data elements, product and data-pattern coverage, data mappings, report outputs and supporting evidence.
• Lead testing for Risk management reports, including Local Sector RAS and Country Risk reporting, with validation of calculations, thresholds, filters, dimensions, aggregation levels, drill-down behavior and Power BI outputs against approved requirements and source data.
• Lead testing for Tax Profit and Loss and Balance Sheet reporting, including validation of mapping rules, calculations, state or entity-level outputs, reconciliations and business acceptance.
• Coordinate testing of Finance reports and semantic models, including product-by-product data coverage and reconciliation to agreed source and accounting information.
• Establish test data requirements and coordinate the preparation, refresh, masking, access, and availability of representative data across test environments.
• Ensure coverage of positive, negative, boundary, exception, historical, late-adjustment and data-quality scenarios, including missing, duplicate, inconsistent or rejected records.
• Own defect governance, including defect logging, severity and priority alignment, triage, assignment, aging, retesting, closure, root-cause visibility and escalation of risks to delivery or regulatory readiness.
• Maintain execution and defect records in Azure DevOps or approved workstream tooling, ensuring test cases, results, evidence, defects, requirements and approvals remain traceable.
• Facilitate daily test coordination, defect triage and readiness reviews across business, data, engineering, reporting, vendor and global platform stakeholders.
• Produce concise testing dashboards and governance updates that clearly distinguish planned, executed, passed, failed, blocked and deferred tests; open defects; decisions required; residual risks; and readiness for sign-off.
• Confirm that non-functional and control requirements are tested where applicable, including access, security, auditability, retention, resilience, monitoring, data-download controls and operational support readiness.
• Support production-readiness activities, including dress rehearsals, cutover validation, initial reporting cycles, aftercare, control evidence and handover to business and technology owners.
• Coach analysts, developers and business testers on test-case quality, evidence expectations, defect documentation and consistent execution practices.

Requirements

• 7+ years of software testing, data testing, quality assurance or test management experience, including delivery of complex technology, data or regulatory-change initiatives in a large, matrixed organization.
• Demonstrated experience leading testing for Finance, Risk, Tax, regulatory reporting, management information or other data-intensive reporting capabilities within financial services.
• Strong understanding of end-to-end data flows, including source systems, ETL or ingestion, data models, transformation rules, data warehouses or marts, semantic layers and downstream reporting tools.
• Hands-on experience designing test strategies, integrated test plans, scenarios, test cases, expected results, execution controls, traceability matrices, defect processes and test completion reports.
• Strong data-validation and reconciliation skills, with the ability to compare source data, transformed datasets, calculations and report outputs and identify where discrepancies originate.
• Experience testing data mappings, interfaces, batch files, APIs, business rules, calculations, aggregations, filters, thresholds, hierarchies, and report visualizations.
• Strong defect-management experience, including severity assessment, triage facilitation, root-cause coordination, retesting, closure evidence, and risk-based escalation.
• Experience coordinating business users, subject-matter experts, developers, data engineers, architects, platform teams and third-party vendors through SIT, UAT and end-to-end testing.
• Ability to create a workable testing structure where processes, ownership, requirements or environments are still developing, while maintaining delivery momentum and control discipline.
• Strong written and verbal communication, including the ability to explain data and testing issues to non-technical stakeholders and summarize readiness, defects and residual risks for senior stakeholders.
• Strong documentation discipline and the ability to maintain clear, traceable, review-ready and audit-ready testing records and evidence.
• Comfort operating in a regulated financial-services environment and handling sensitive financial, risk, tax and customer data.
• Working knowledge of Agile and traditional delivery methods and test-management tools such as Azure DevOps Test Plans/Boards, Jira, ALM, qTest or comparable platforms.
• Working knowledge of SQL or equivalent data-query techniques for validating datasets, transformations, and reconciliations.
• Experience testing U.S. regulatory reports, particularly Shared National Credit (SNC), regulatory finance or risk reporting.
• Experience with FRIDA or comparable enterprise Finance and Risk data platforms, including data models, simplified views, consumer lenses and controlled data consumption.
• Experience with Power BI or comparable business-intelligence platforms.
• Understanding Finance and accounting data, including inventory, general ledger, Profit and Loss, Balance Sheet, product, counterparty and reference data.
• Understanding credit-risk and management-information concepts such as exposure, risk-weighted assets, risk appetite thresholds, country risk, sector risk and credit-quality measures.
• Experience validating critical data elements, source-to-target mappings, data lineage, data quality controls and reconciliations across multiple upstream systems and product types.
• Experience planning or executing parallel runs, dry runs, regulatory submission rehearsals, reporting-cycle validation or production aftercare.
• Experience with test automation or repeatable data-comparison approaches using SQL, Python, Power Query, Excel or comparable tools.
• Familiarity with technology risk and control requirements for access, auditability, evidence retention, data downloads, security, resilience and operational readiness.
• Relevant testing certifications such as ISTQB, Certified Software Test Professional, Agile testing certification or equivalent practical experience.

Skills

Required

• Software testing
• Data testing
• Quality assurance
• Test management
• Test strategy design
• Test planning
• Test case design
• Data validation
• Reconciliation
• Defect management
• Stakeholder coordination
• Documentation

Preferred

• U.S. regulatory reporting testing
• FRIDA platform
• Power BI
• Critical data elements validation
• Source-to-target mappings
• Data lineage
• Data quality controls
• Parallel runs

Benefits

• Hourly Rate: $76-97