About CLS:

CLS is the trusted party at the centre of the global FX ecosystem. Utilized by thousands of counterparties, CLS makes FX safer, smoother and more cost effective. Trillions of dollars’ worth of currency flows through our systems each day.

Created by the market for the market, our unrivalled global settlement infrastructure reduces systemic risk and provides standardization for participants in many of the world’s most actively traded currencies. We deliver huge efficiencies and savings for our clients: in fact, our approach to multilateral netting shrinks funding requirements by over 96% on average, so clients can put their capital and resources to better use.

CLS products are designed to enable clients to manage risk most effectively across the full FX lifecycle – whether through more efficient processing tools or market intelligence derived from the largest single source of FX executed data available to the market.

Our ambition to make a positive difference starts with our people. Our values – Protect, Improve, Grow – underpin everything that we do at CLS and define and shape a supportive and inclusive working environment in which everyone is encouraged to be open and forward-thinking.

About CLS CLS is the trusted party at the centre of the global FX ecosystem. Settling over US$5 trillion a day of payment instructions for our members, we play a critical role in the global financial system as the world’s leading provider of FX settlement services. Given our systemic importance to the global FX market and its participants, our mission at CLS is to minimize systemic risk while improving funding and operational efficiency – so that clients can do business with confidence and make their capital go further. Our ambition to make a positive difference starts with our people. Our values – Protect, Improve, Grow - underpin everything that we do at CLS and define and shape a culture in which employees are encouraged to be open and forward-thinking. Below, you can learn more about life at CLS and how we foster this culture by looking after our people.
Functional title	Infrastructure Non-functional Test Manager	Location	London
Corporate title	2	Report to	Dong Hua Li
Department	Global Test Services	No. of direct reports	0

Job purpose
Testing: Take a leading role and manage Infrastructure Non-functional testing across multiple CLS hosting platform. Define annual test approaches to EOL, Security Patches, Mandatory Upgrades across various hosting platforms. Negotiate and manage effective test timelines with Infrastructure/Engineering team. Manage stakeholders and deliver quality test results. Leverage existing Test method as set out in the CLS test procedure and Test Approach. Manage multiple vendors to deliver Test Strategies, Test Plans, and complete Test Execution and Test Exit Reports. Stakeholder Management: Manage relationships with IT Infrastructure Leaders, Infra Architects, Engineering team, and hosting support teams. Vendor coordination and manage multiple VRAs. Reporting: Produce effective test plans targeting EOL, Security Patches, and other various upgrades. Defect management reports. Documentation: Test Strategy to Infrastructure specific projects. Test cases, scripts and defects Test evidence collection during test execution Test Exit Reports The skills required for this role are: Technical skills: Cloud hosting and on-Prem Data Center hosting knowledge. Focusing on Hosting Infrastructure knowledge, Networking, Security, Software Support Life cycle. Relationship Management skills: build strong working relationship with IT Infra senior management team, Architects, and various support teams to deliver effective test plans and results against agreed schedules. Resource Management skills: work with Vendors to on-board, train, and retain VRAs with specific non-functional testing skills to deliver test results. Analytic skills - reviewing documents, identifying areas to test and anomalies in scope documents. Presentation skills - report test prep / execution updates to Infra Lead / Manager . Communication skills - articulate testing challenges and raise risks, defects. Time keeping skills - meeting milestones, ability to proactively manage own time calling out any challenges that may impact work or deadlines. The skills desired for this role are: Financial/banking domain experience AWS hosting certifications. Confluence/JIRA/LoadRunner/Zephyr Tool Experience of working in onsite–offshore model PMP

Essential Function / major duties and responsibilities of the job

Lead and execute non-functional, Infrastructure Verification test execution with Vendors
On top of testing progress
Understand and follow the GTS process to deliver testing services

Our commitment to employees:

At CLS, we celebrate diversity and consider this to be one of our strongest assets. We are committed to fostering an environment in which everyone feels comfortable to be who they are, and inclusion is valued. All employees have access to our inclusive benefits, including:

Holiday - UK/Asia: 25 holiday days and 3 ‘life days’ (in addition to bank holidays). US: 23 holiday days.
2 paid volunteer days so that you can actively support causes within your community that are important to you.
Generous parental leave policies to ensure you can enjoy valuable time with your family.
Parental transition coaching programmes and support services.
Wellbeing and mental health support resources to ensure you are looking after yourself, and able to support others.
Affinity Groups (including our Women’s Forum, Black Employee Network and Pride Network) in support of our organisational commitment to embrace and always be learning more about DE&I.
Hybrid working to promote a healthy work/life balance, enabling employees to work collaboratively in the office when needed and work from home when they don’t.
Active support of flexible working for all employees where possible.
Monthly ‘Heads Down Days’ with no meetings across the whole company.
Generous non-contributory pension provision for UK/Asia employees, and 401K match from CLS for US employees.
Private medical insurance and dental coverage.
Social events that give you opportunities to meet new people and broaden your network across the organisation.
Annual flu vaccinations.
Discounts and savings and cashback across a wide range of categories including health and retail for UK employees.
Discounted Gym membership – Complete Body Gym Discount/Sweat equity program for US employees.
All employees have access to Discover – our comprehensive learning platform with 1000+ courses from LinkedIn Learning.
Access to frequent development sessions on a number of topics to help you be successful and develop your career at CLS.

Assistant Vice President, Global Testing Services, Non-Functional Portfolio

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