About the Role

We are looking for an Individual Functional Test Manager to lead functional test delivery across assigned projects, workstreams, or client implementations. This is a hands-on functional test leadership role focused on test strategy, planning, execution oversight, quality governance, risk management, and release readiness.

You will define and execute the functional test approach for your allocated scope, ensuring test coverage, traceability, defect management, evidence, reporting, and sign-off are delivered in line with FNZ SDLC and project delivery expectations. You will work closely with Project Managers, Delivery Managers, Solution Consultants, Analyst Testers, Infrastructure, Release Management, and client stakeholders to ensure high-quality outcomes.

What You'll Do

As an Individual Functional Test Manager, you will take ownership of functional test delivery for your assigned project or workstream, ensuring testing is planned, executed, evidenced, governed, and reported to the required quality standards.

Define and own the functional test strategy and test approach for assigned projects, workstreams, or client implementations.
Lead functional test planning, estimation, scope definition, prioritization, and execution oversight in line with the SDLC.
Ensure testing artefacts such as test plans, scenarios, cases, execution evidence, defect updates, traceability, and closure reports are produced to agreed standards.
Manage functional testing risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, blockers, and residual quality risks for your allocated scope.
Provide clear, timely, and metrics-driven reporting on test progress, execution status, defect trends, coverage, quality gates, and release readiness.
Engage with project, delivery, client, and internal stakeholders to agree the QA engagement model, test scope, entry and exit criteria, dependencies, and execution approach.
Support defect triage and issue resolution through evidence-based analysis, impact assessment, and recommended actions.
Coordinate functional testing sign-off readiness by validating scope coverage, execution results, defect position, residual risks, and exit criteria.
Ensure required test environments, test data, and access needs are identified, requested, and available in line with execution timelines.
Assess testing impact of change requests and ensure functional test plans, estimates, scope, and evidence are updated through change management.
Maintain strong test governance through quality gates, functional test metrics, progress reporting, and stakeholder visibility.
Drive continuous improvement within your functional test scope to improve test coverage, execution discipline, defect prevention, and delivery predictability.
Provide day-to-day functional test directions to Analyst Testers and project contributors without direct line-management responsibility.
Coach and support project team members on test design, coverage, traceability, evidence quality, defect management, and risk-based prioritization.
Capture and share functional testing knowledge, key decisions, assumptions, lessons learned, and recommendations with relevant stakeholders.

What You'll Bring

We are looking for a career testing professional with strong functional test delivery experience, excellent stakeholder management skills, and the ability to operate effectively in fast-paced client-facing delivery environments.

Strong hands-on functional testing experience across test planning, scenario design, execution, defect management, evidence review, and test closure.
Experience working in client-facing test delivery or engagement roles, preferably within Financial Services.
Ability to manage functional test activities under pressure and deliver to strict deadlines.
Experience working in fast-paced Agile delivery environments.
Experience working with distributed teams across onshore, nearshore, and offshore locations.
Deep understanding of functional test metrics, coverage, defect trends, KPIs, SLAs, quality gates, and release readiness reporting.
Strong experience using Jira and Xray for test management, defect tracking, reporting, and traceability.
Ability to articulate complex information in a clear, concise, and stakeholder-friendly way.
Strong written and verbal communication skills in English.
Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint for reporting, analysis, and stakeholder communication.
Ability to prioritize your own workload and coordinate functional test activities across contributors without direct line-management responsibility.
Strong ownership of personal deliverables, functional test outcomes, and project quality commitments.
Collaborative working style with the ability to build trusted relationships and influence delivery teams.
Proactive mindset with the ability to identify improvements to current processes and testing practices.
Adaptability to move between projects and become productive quickly.
Commitment to continuous improvement and measurable quality outcomes.

Preferred certification: ISTQB Advanced Test Manager Certification or equivalent practical experience.

Preferred Industry Knowledge

Experience with investment, wealth, life, and/or pensions products and the markets in which FNZ and its customers operate.
Strong understanding of the regulatory environment relevant to FNZ and its clients.
Knowledge of the FNZ platform across key functional areas is highly desirable.

About FNZ

FNZ is a global FinTech firm transforming the way financial institutions serve their wealth management customers. We partner with banks, insurers, and asset managers to help people achieve their financial goals through our unique combination of technology leadership, innovation, and asset servicing.

Our services enable clients to provide best-in-class wealth management solutions to financial advisers, end-investors, and the workplace. We create solutions that are flexible, transparent, and scalable, reflecting the latest market demographic, and regulatory trends worldwide.

FNZ has experienced exceptional growth over the past decade, both in assets under administration and through the substantial expansion of our international footprint.

Today, FNZ is responsible for over £1.5 trillion in assets under administration, held by around 20 million customers of some of the world's largest financial institutions, including Aviva, Barclays, BNZ, Generali, HSBC, Lloyds Banking Group, National Australia Bank, Quilter, Santander, UOB, Vanguard, and Zurich.