Test/Project Management Consultant

Req ID: 333032 

 

NTT DATA strives to hire exceptional, innovative and passionate individuals who want to grow with us. If you want to be part of an inclusive, adaptable, and forward-thinking organization, apply now.

 

We are currently seeking a Test/Project Management Consultant to join our team in Charlotte, North Carolina (US-NC), United States (US).

 

Who We Are:

NTT DATA America strives to hire exceptional, innovative, and passionate individuals who want to grow with us. Our Financial Services Consulting team includes consultants who help financial institutions respond to digital proliferation by focusing on customer-oriented services, just-in-time services, and modularized product offerings.  Our clients include many of the top 10 U.S. banks.  Learn more about how we partner with our Banking & Financial Services clients: https://us.nttdata.com/en/services/consulting-services/banking-and-financial-services-consulting 

 

How You’ll Help Us: 

As a Test/Project Management Consultant you will play a role in driving positive outcomes for strategic technology objectives through application testing for a key banking client's applications.   

 

How We Will Help You: 

Joining NTT DATA is not only a job, but a chance to grow your career. We are committed to supporting your professional growth, development, and overall success.   

  

Once You Are Here, You Will:  

• Provide oversight and accountability for the planning, design and execution of application testing in projects of varying sizes, including transformational initiatives 

• Leverage testing experience to advise clients on effective approaches and strategies for application testing 

• Lead application testing activities throughout testing lifecycle (Planning, Design, Execution and Defect Management) 

• Develop system testing, regression and user acceptance testing strategies, plans and schedules to verify migrated application functionality 

• Ensure clarity of roles and responsibilities for extended testing team members 

• Lead testing teams to develop manual and automated tests, execute testing, and ensure actual results are captured with defects properly logged in test management tools 

• Coordinate and collaborate with performance testing teams to execute performance and load testing 

• Coordinate and collaborate with business users to execute UAT 

• Drive defect resolution through defect management routines and reporting 

• Ensure testing deliverables use client defined processes and artifact templates 

• Identify testing dependencies, risks, and issues and manage remediation plans (RAIDD) 

• Build and implement test status reporting, including reports required for executive readouts 

• Drive progress across test plans, working with testing participants to achieve planned milestones, removing roadblocks and facilitating cross team discussions 

• Working with client leadership, provide direction to 3rd party vendor testers that will be assigned to the project 

• Other duties may be required with specific activities changing from time to time. 

 

Required Qualifications:  

• 5+ years of test management experience 

• Experience leveraging industry standard test management tools to manage work in a dynamic and complex environment 

• Experience partnering and communicating with key stakeholders at all levels to manage, inform, and influence outcomes  

 

Preferred Skills:  

• Bachelor's degree 

• Experience with implementation of test automation into project testing efforts to speed up delivery 

• Technology or business consulting experience 

• Experience with both Agile and Waterfall project management methodologies

• Experience working in the Banking and Financial Services Industry 

• Strong grasp of test management and technology development lifecycles

• Experience testing large an