Test Manager

Job description

OneFinance 2026 is a Group-level Finance Transformation Program across 30+ Countries within the Generali Group. The program is building a harmonized Finance platform based on a single group template, integrating core accounting with procurement, financial request management, consolidation, and regulatory compliance processes. Delivered in partnership with leading global consulting firms, it is one of the most strategically significant and complex transformation programs currently active within the Group.

With multiple country go-lives underway and further waves in active delivery, quality and testing governance are among the most critical success factors of the program. Each rollout involves full end-to-end validation across the core platform, its satellite integrations, and business processes spanning Finance, Procurement, and Shared Services. We are looking for a Senior Test Manager to own the end-to-end testing strategy for OneFinance 2026 and lead a dedicated Test Management team.

You will be accountable for test strategy design, test automation development (including AI-assisted approaches), and the quality gate governance that determines readiness for each country go-live. You will operate across all test phases and work closely with functional workstream leads, integration teams, business stakeholders, and the IT Program Director. You will also be responsible for building and evolving the test automation capability within the program, leveraging modern tooling and AI-augmented test case generation and execution.

Key responsibilities of the role will include: Test Strategy & Governance : Define, own, and continuously evolve the program-level test strategy covering all phases. Establish quality gates, entry/exit criteria, and testing KPIs for each country go-live. Ensure alignment between test scope and functional design across all workstreams.

Test Team Leadership

Functionally coordinate test analysts and automation engineers (internal and external) embedded within the OneFinance delivery structure. Assign ownership of test areas by workstream (main systems are S/4 HANA and Azure-based Data Platform), manage capacity across parallel country rollouts, and maintain consistent standards and practices. Act as the internal counterpart to external test delivery partners: challenge and govern the quality of system integrator deliverables (test design, execution, defect fixes), and negotiate test scope, timelines, and sign-off criteria with country stakeholders and vendors.

Contribute to growing the internal test management capability over time.

Test Automation & AI-Assisted Testing

drive the design and development of an automation framework suited to the SAP S/4HANA and integration landscape of the program. Define the tooling strategy and ensure automation coverage scales with each country rollout. Explore and progressively adopt AI-assisted approaches for test case generation, regression suite maintenance, and defect pattern analysis.

SIT Coordination

Plan and coordinate System Integration Testing across all functional workstreams and integration points. Collaborate with technical architects and integration leads to define interface test scenarios. Monitor defect resolution and manage test cycles through to sign-off.

UAT & Business Readiness

Coordinate UAT execution with Finance and Procurement business stakeholders across rollout countries. Support the preparation of business test scripts, manage UAT environments, and act as the primary interface between the IT delivery team and business testers. Ensure UAT outcomes are documented and sign-off is formally governed.

E2E Testing

Design and execute End-to-End test scenarios validating cross-process flows spanning Procurement, Finance, and Reporting. Ensure E2E coverage reflects real operational conditions for the Group and for the Countries.

Defect Management & Reporting

Own the defect management process end-to-end: triage, prioritization, resolution tracking, and trend analysis. Ensure clear, executive-ready test status reports for the Program Director and senior stakeholders, including go/no-go readiness assessments ahead of each Country cutover before go-live.

Tooling & Process Standardization

Select, implement, and govern the test management tooling used across the program. Standardize test processes, templates, and documentation practices across all country rollouts. Contribute to the program quality framework and lessons-learned repository.

Qualifications

8 to 10 years of experience in IT test management, including at least 4 years in a lead role. Proven track record of owning end-to-end test strategy across multiple phases (SIT, UAT, E2E) in large-scale, multi-country transformation.programs — greenfield implementations or multi-country rollouts, not only maintenance or integration of existing systems. Recent, direct hands-on experience building test automation (scripting/framework implementation), beyond managing automation engineers; ability to define automation strategy at program level Experience governing and challenging external system integrators on the quality of test deliverables, with the seniority and autonomy to negotiate with country stakeholders and vendors.

Strong expertise in defect management, quality gate governance, and go-live readiness assessment. Experience managing test environments and test data strategies in complex, integration-heavy landscapes, including environment refresh cycles under tight timelines.

Excellent stakeholder management

able to communicate test status and risk clearly to both IT and business audiences, including senior leadership. Structured, to-the-point, decision-oriented communication style. Proven ability to lead distributed, cross-functional teams in an international and multicultural environment. English at C1 level or above (working language of the program); Italian required.

Nice to Have

Experience with AI-assisted testing in production contexts: AI-generated test cases, intelligent regression selection, or ML-based defect analysis. Strong interest and active experimentation in this area is expected in any case. Knowledge of SAP S/4HANA functional processes (FI, CO, or MM) sufficient to validate test scenario coverage and challenge functional teams on scope gaps. Experience with Microsoft Azure and Azure DevOps for test management, pipeline integration, and automated test execution in cloud or hybrid environments.

Experience with enterprise test management and automation tooling. Exposure to insurance industry processes and regulatory requirements and their implications for UAT and compliance testing.

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in a technical discipline, or equivalent professional experience.