Job Description

CAPCO POLAND

Location: Warsaw, Poland

At Capco Poland, we’re not just another consultancy - we’re the spark behind digital transformation in the financial world. As a global leader in technology and management consulting, we thrive on helping clients tackle the toughest challenges across banking, payments, capital markets, wealth, and asset management.
Our secret?
A culture that’s fast, flexible, and fiercely entrepreneurial. We move quickly, think creatively, and always put our people first.
We’re passionate about growth - both for our clients and ourselves - and that means attracting the very best talent to join us on this exciting journey.
We’re proud to be:
• Trailblazers in banking, payments, capital markets, wealth, and asset management
• Champions of an agile, nimble, and innovative work environment
• Dedicated to building a team of top-notch professionals who share our drive and vision

Drive quality assurance across complex payment transformation programmes from strategy through execution.

THE ROLE

We are looking for an experienced Program Test Manager / Test Lead to define and lead enterprise-wide testing strategies across large-scale banking and payments transformation programmes. You will oversee end-to-end testing activities spanning issuing, acquiring, and switching domains, ensuring quality delivery across all programme phases.

This role requires a strong leader who can coordinate cross-functional testing teams, manage programme-level risks and defects, and provide clear governance and reporting to senior stakeholders across PMO, business, and technology functions.

Fluency in Polish is mandatory.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Define and manage the overall programme test strategy, including master test plans, governance, and quality assurance frameworks
• Coordinate SIT, UAT, regression, and end-to-end testing activities across issuing, acquiring, and switch domains
• Establish and monitor programme-level entry and exit criteria, ensuring quality gates are achieved across all delivery phases
• Manage defects, blockers, dependencies, and risk escalations while providing regular reporting to PM, PMO, KO, and KS stakeholders
• Lead and coordinate the work of manual testers, Automation QA engineers, SMEs, vendors, and third-party delivery teams

SKILLS & EXPERIENCES TO GET THE JOB DONE:

• Proven experience leading testing activities within complex banking or payments transformation programmes
• Strong understanding of payment ecosystems including issuing, acquiring, switching, and transaction processing
• Experience managing large-scale SIT, UAT, regression, and end-to-end testing across multiple workstreams
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills with the ability to engage senior business and technology leaders
• Experience working with distributed delivery teams, vendors, and cross-functional programme environments
• Experience working within agile or hybrid delivery models
• Knowledge of automation testing frameworks and QA tooling
• Exposure to card schemes, ISO 8583 messaging, or real-time payments platforms
• Experience delivering testing within cloud or digital transformation programmes

IMPORTANT

• Fluent Polish (spoken and written) is mandatory
• Good command of English for documentation and collaboration
• Availability to work on-site, with partial remote work - 3 days per week from the office in Warsaw

ONLINE RECRUITMENT PROCESS STEPS

• Screening call with the Recruiter
• Hiring Manager Technical Interview
• Client Interview
• Feedback/Offer

We offer a flexible collaboration model based on a B2B contract, with the opportunity to work on diverse projects.

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